Kintyre Forum on Campbeltown Pupils FC’s Italian international
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The Kintyre Forum website has a great story – the history of the Campbeltown Pupils Football Club – and there’s a gem of a story in the middle of it.
Falkirk’s Johnny Moscardini was the only Scots born footballer to play for Italy – but the only Scottish team he ever played for was Campbeltown Pupils – and that was after his return from being capped 9 nine times as a full international for Italy. For the record – for another record – he scored 7 times for the Azzurri.
Johnny enlisted in the Italian Army at the age of eighteen and saw action in the First World War.
After the war he settled in his parents home town of Barga in Tuscany. An accomplished player, he was soon spotted by the local senior club, Lucca, then playing in the Tuscany Section of the Italian League.
He later signed for near neighbours Pisa – playing in the Northern Section. He became that club’s top scorer and the first choice at centre-forward for the national side. His final sojurn in senior football was with Genoa – the top Italian club of the period.
In 1925, he returned to Scotland to help run his uncle’s Royal Cafe in Hall Street, Campbeltown.
His long journey in football ame to an end when he played for ‘the Pupils,’ his last club and his only one of Scottish registration.
This is only one of a host of interesting pieces of the jigsaw of the history of this great club – well worth a read.
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