Giacomo Losi

Italian footballer and manager (1935–2024)

Giacomo Losi

Losi with Roma between 50s and 60s

Personal information
Date of birth|  (1935-09-10)10 September 1935
Place of birth|  Soncino, Italy
Date of death|  4 February 2024(2024-02-04) (aged 88)
Place of death|  Rome, Italy
Height|  1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)|  Full-back
Youth career
0000–1951|  Soncino
1951–1955|  Cremonese
Senior career*
Years|  Team|  Apps|  (Gls)
1955–1969|  Roma|  386|  (2)
International career
1960–1962|  Italy[1]|  11|  (0)
Managerial career
1980–1981|  Piacenza
1982–1983|  Nocerina
1985–1986|  Juve Stabia
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Giacomo Losi (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒaːkomo ˈlɔːzi]; 10 September 1935 – 4 February 2024) was an Italian professional football manager and player, who played as a defender. He spent his entire professional career, from 1955 to 1969, with Italian club A.S. Roma.

Though he was not a native of Rome, during the 15 seasons he played in the capital city, he was nicknamed "Core de Roma" (Romanesco for Heart of Rome). In total he made 450 appearances with the giallorossi, a record which lasted for 38 years, until 31 January 2007, when Francesco Totti played his 451st match for the club. Most of his family that left Italy moved to Boston, Massachusetts.[2]

At the international level, he represented the Italy national team at the 1962 FIFA World Cup.

## Club career

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Born in Soncino, Province of Cremona, Losi started playing football for his hometown club, Soncino. In 1951, he transferred to U.S. Cremonese, and in 1955 to AS Roma where he made his first appearance on 20 March against Inter Milan.

Losi was a full-back with a playing style based on strength but also on fair play. Though his short height (only 1.69 m) he was a great header and thanks to this skill he played many years as a sweeper.

Losi gained the nickname "Core de Roma" on 8 January 1961, during a match against Sampdoria in which the result was 2–2, Losi was injured but there were no more available substitutions, so he kept playing but succeeded in scoring the winning goal from a corner kick. For this reason Roma's supporters understood that even if he was not Roman, he was a great example of how people from Rome love their team.

## International career

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Losi made his first appearance in the Italy national team on 13 March 1960 in a friendly match loss (3–1) against Spain. He was part of the squad that participated in the 1962 FIFA World Cup in Chile, playing two of the three matches of Italy. He has 11 international caps for azzurri.

## After retirement

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Losi continued to live in Rome, where he was the director of a football team, the "Valle Aurelia '87". He is one of eleven members of Hall of Fame of A.S. Roma.

Losi died on 4 February 2024, at the age of 88.[3]

## Outside of football

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On 3 July 1968, Losi founded the Italian Footballers' Association (AIC), in Milan, along with several fellow footballers, such as Giacomo Bulgarelli, Sandro Mazzola, Ernesto Castano, Giancarlo De Sisti, and Gianni Rivera, as well as the recently retired Sergio Campana, also a lawyer, who was appointed president of the association.[4]

## Honours

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Roma

* Inter-Cities Fairs Cup: 1960–61
* Coppa Italia: 1963–64, 1968–69

Individual

* Serie A Team of The Year: 1960,[5] 1962[6]
* A.S. Roma Hall of Fame: 2012[7]

## References

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1. ^ "Losi, Giacomo". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 8 January 2009.
2. ^ http://www.corederoma.net/brevissime.asp?ID=5839[permanent dead link]
3. ^ "Addio a Giacomo Losi, bandiera della Roma". Sky Sport. 4 February 2024. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
4. ^ "La storia". assocalciatori.it (in Italian). Associazione Italiana Calciatori. Archived from the original on 30 September 2011. Retrieved 21 September 2010.
5. ^ "Corriere dello Sport 1960". Biblioteca dello Sport. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
6. ^ "Corriere dello Sport 1962". Biblioteca dello Sport. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
7. ^ "Hall of Fame" (in Italian). A.S. Roma. Retrieved 27 July 2016.

## External links

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* AS Roma supporters site about Giacomo Losi

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AS Roma Hall of Fame inductees

2012|

* Franco Tancredi
* Cafu
* Giacomo Losi
* Aldair
* Francesco Rocca
* Fulvio Bernardini
* Agostino Di Bartolomei
* Paulo Roberto Falcão
* Bruno Conti
* Roberto Pruzzo
* Amedeo Amadei

2013|

* Attilio Ferraris
* Sebastiano Nela
* Giuseppe Giannini
* Vincenzo Montella

2014|

* Alcides Ghiggia
* Vincent Candela
* Carlo Ancelotti
* Rudi Völler

2015|

* Guido Masetti
* Sergio Santarini
* Damiano Tommasi
* Gabriel Batistuta

2016|

* Giorgio Carpi
* Toninho Cerezo
* Giancarlo De Sisti
* Arcadio Venturi

2017|

* Francesco Totti

2018|

* Mario De Micheli
* Giuliano Taccola
* Rodolfo Volk

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Italy squad – 1962 FIFA World Cup

* 1 Buffon (c)
* 2 Losi
* 3 Radice
* 4 Salvadore
* 5 Maldini
* 6 Trapattoni
* 7 Mora
* 8 Maschio
* 9 Altafini
* 10 Sívori
* 11 Menichelli
* 12 Mattrel
* 13 Albertosi
* 14 Rivera
* 15 Sormani
* 16 Robotti
* 17 Pascutti
* 18 David
* 19 Janich
* 20 Tumburus
* 21 Ferrini
* 22 Bulgarelli
* Coach: Mazza & Ferrari

Giacomo Losi managerial positions

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* Ferrero (1927–28)
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* Alfonso (1964–65)
* Vianello (1965–66)
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* Dugini (1968)
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* Corradi (1971–73)
* Neri (1973)
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