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Between 1929 and the early 1940s, more than 100 South Americans — mostly sons of Italian immigrants — were recruited to play in the Italian football league.
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The birth of international football's transfer market has an Italian fascist chapter. Torino's president Enrico Maroni, on a business trip to Argentina, spotted Julio Libonati — son of Italian immigrants, Copa América winner — and brought him back to Turin, where he won the Italian championship. [1] — Paul Rouse "Over 100 South Americans arrived in Italy between 1929 and the early 1940s — recruited because they were sons of Italian immigrants. Mussol…" 25:30 The ripple effect was enormous: between 1929 and the early 1940s, more than 100 South Americans arrived from Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Paraguay. The ideological problem — how does a blood-and-soil regime field foreign-born players? — was resolved by classifying the sons of Italian emigrants as returning nationals: the rimpatriati. Dominic draws the inevitable comparison with Jack Charlton's Republic of Ireland, and Paul observes that every footballing nation in the world has exercised 'a creative attitude to genealogy.'
Over 100 South Americans arrived in Italy between 1929 and the early 1940s — recruited because they were sons of Italian immigrants. Mussolini's blood-and-soil ideology could accommodate them as returning nationals. Five rimpatriati played in Italy's 1934 World Cup squad, providing technical quality Austria and Hungary had over native Italian players.
For the 1934 World Cup, Italy didn't just host — it stage-managed. New stadiums went up across the country, tourist packages were subsidised, loudspeakers in village squares broadcast matches live, and Mussolini commissioned the Coppa del Duce — a trophy six times the size of the World Cup — to be handed out alongside the official prize.
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