Giorgio Chinaglia was an Italian footballer who played as a striker. He grew up and played his early football in Cardiff, Wales, and began his career with Swansea Town in 1964. He later returned to Italy to play for Massese, Internapoli and S.S. Lazio in 1969. Chinaglia led Lazio to the club's first league championship in the 1973–74 season, during which he was also the league's leading scorer. He played international football for Italy, making 14 appearances and scoring 4 goals between 1972 and 1975, including two appearances at the 1974 FIFA World Cup. Chinaglia was the first player in Italian football history to be called up internationally from the second division.
Chinaglia with Lazio in 1975
Chinaglia playing for Biancocelesti, opposed by Nené of Cagliari, c. 1970
Chinaglia (#9) with the New York Cosmos before playing a friendly match v. Club Cipolletti in Argentina, March 1980
Rivera, Chinaglia and Pulici with the Italian national team in 1973
Società Sportiva Lazio, commonly referred to as Lazio, is an Italian professional sports club based in Rome, most known for its football activity. The society, founded in 1900, plays in the Serie A and have spent most of their history in the top tier of Italian football. Lazio have been Italian champions twice, and have won the Coppa Italia seven times, the Supercoppa Italiana three times, and both the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and UEFA Super Cup on one occasion.
The performance of Lazio in the Italian football league structure since the first season of a unified Serie A (1929–30)
Plaque commemorating the foundation of Lazio at Piazza della Libertà (Roma, Prati)
SS Lazio team which won the club's first scudetto in 1974
Bruno Giordano with the Lazio jersey