Omero Tognon is an Italian

Italy

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 retired football (soccer)

Football (soccer)

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 player.

Born in Padua

Padua

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, Tognon was a solid center midfielder for Milan

A.C. Milan

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 during the 1940s and 1950s. Tognon played eleven seasons with Milan making 335 appearances preceded only by Gianni Rivera

Gianni Rivera

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, Paolo Maldini

Paolo Maldini

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, Franco Baresi

Franco Baresi

Franco Baresi is an Italian football youth team coach and former player. He played as a sweeper and spent his entire career with Serie A club AC Milan, acknowledged as one of the greatest defenders ever to play the game. Baresi was nicknamed "Piscinin", Milanese for "Little one"...

, Billy Costacurta

Alessandro Costacurta

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, Mauro Tassotti

Mauro Tassotti

Mauro Tassotti is a retired Italian footballer. He played for seventeen years with A.C. Milan, mostly at right back but could also fill in at centre back if required, thanks to his versatility and commitment...

, Nils Liedholm

Nils Liedholm

Nils Liedholm was a Swedish football midfielder and coach. Il Barone , as he is affectionately known in Italy, was renowned for being part of Sweden's "Gre-No-Li" trio of strikers along with Gunnar Gren and Gunnar Nordahl at A.C. Milan and the Swedish national team...

 and Cesare Maldini

Cesare Maldini

Cesare Maldini is an Italian football manager and former player. He played as a centre back and spent the majority of his career with AC Milan. Maldini also represented Italy at international level in the 1962 and 1966 World Cups. His son Paolo, also a defender, previously held the record for the...

. He formed a great tandem in midfield with Carlo Annovazzi

Carlo Annovazzi

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. He was selected to the national team for the 1950 World Cup

1950 FIFA World Cup

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 but, along with Emilio Caprile

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, Giuseppe Casari

Giuseppe Casari

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 and Benito Lorenzi

Benito Lorenzi

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, he saw no action at the tournament. He would get another opportunity at the 1954 World Cup

1954 FIFA World Cup

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 where he was immovable at central defense. The second game against Switzerland

Switzerland national football team

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 was his last cap for the 'Azzurri'. With Milan he won two championships, the first in 1951

Serie A 1950-51

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 having played 37 of 38 games, and the second in 1955

Serie A 1954-55

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without playing any games.