Giuseppe Wilson

Infobox Football biography
playername=Giuseppe Wilson


fullname = Joseph Wilson
nickname =
dateofbirth = Birth date and age|1945|12|27|df=y
cityofbirth = Darlington
countryofbirth = England
currentclub = "Retired"
clubnumber =
height =
position = Defender
years = 1964–65
1965–69
1969–79
1979
clubs = Cirio
Internapoli
Lazio
New York Cosmos
caps(goals) = 018 (0)
138 (0)
296 (4) [cite news|url=http://www.enciclopediadelcalcio.com/Wilson.html|publisher=EnciclopediaDelCalcio.com|title= Giuseppe Wilson Statistics|date=22 June 2007]
000 (0)
nationalyears = 1974
nationalteam = Italy
nationalcaps(goals) = 003 (0)

Joseph (Giuseppe) Wilson (born 27 October 1945 in Darlington, England) is a former Anglo-Italian footballer. Although born in Northern England, Wilson played the majority of his football career in Italy.

At club level he played as a defender for Internapoli and Lazio where he was captain, as well as representing the Italian national football team three times in 1974.

Biography

Joseph Wilson was born in Darlington, England to a Neapolitan woman Lina d'Francesca and Dennis Wilson, an Englishman who worked as an iron and steel worker at the local factory, but had met Lina while serving with the British Army. When Joseph Wilson was just six months old, his family moved to Naples, his mother's hometown as she found it hard to settle in Britain due to the cold winters. [ [http://theadvertiserseries.net/the_north_east/sport/BACKTRACK3.html TheAdvertisersSeries.net] ]

Internapoli and Lazio

Started his career off with CRAL Cirio in Naples, who changed their name to Internapoli in 1965; including games played under both club names he appeared for the side more than 150 times.

His efforts in the lower divisions of Italian football caught the attention of SS Lazio who signed him in 1969. At Lazio he would enjoy his most notable spell as a footballer, staying with them for a decade playing just under 300 games for them. This was a successful period for the club who won their first ever Serie A title in 1973–74 as well as the Coppa delle Alpi in 1971.

The time he spent at Lazio gained him a place in the Italian national football team, and he was in the squad for the 1974 FIFA World Cup. As his career wound down, Wilson spent a season in the United States, playing in the NASL league with the New York Cosmos during 1979.

Honours

*1971: Coppa delle Alpi (Lazio)
*1973-74: Serie A (Lazio)

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