Name: Giovanni De Prà

Nickname: "Il Ragno"



Country: Italy
Club: Genoa C.F.C.
Position: *GK
Side: RF/BS
Age: 22-28 years (28/06/1900)

Height: *170 cm (not found)
Weight: *73 kg (not found)

Attack: 30
Defence: 90
Balance: 78
Stamina: 66
Top Speed: 68
Acceleration: 71
Response: 92
Agility: 84
Dribble Accuracy: 50
Dribble Speed: 55
Short Pass Accuracy: 58
Short Pass Speed: 59
Long Pass Accuracy: 59
Long Pass Speed: 61
Shot Accuracy: 43
Shot Power: 77
Shot Technique: 42
Free Kick Accuracy: 44
Curling: 45
Header: 44
Jump: 91
Technique: 52
Aggression: 55
Mentality: 83
Keeper Skills: 89
Team Work: 77

Injury Tolerance: A
Condition/Fitness: 6
Weak Foot Accuracy: 4
Weak Foot Frequency: 4
Consistency: 6
Growth Type: Standard


CARDS:
S12: 1-on-1 Keeper

SPECIAL ABILITIES: 1-on-1 Stopper

Attack / Defence Awareness Card: Defence Minded


INFO:

Former Italian keeper, one of the best in the World at his era alongside Zamora. Giovanni was athletic keeper with good reflexes, very flexible and agile, good when needing to leave the goal line and exploiting all his limbs to make the save. Raised in the small club Genoa Albarese the U.S., has his first experiences in the top flight in the SPES Genoa. It is noted in the encounter against Bayern Munich ended 1-1 December 5, 1920 where he sports a provision capital, preventing the Griffins to take home the match. William Garbutt, the Rossoblu coach, was impressed by De Pra, asking its leaders to sign him for next season. In Genoa the holder becomes immovable, contributing to the success of the griffin in the following years. In 1922-23 and 1923-24 seasons with Genoa De Pra won two league titles. The first two titles came after a series of 33 consecutive games unbeaten, a record equaled only by AC Milan in more than seventy years. Juventus tried to buy it by paying its weight in gold, but without success because once presented himself in the home of Juventus, Giovanni De Pra thanked him and said to be genoano and then not being able to play other teams outside of Genoa. (According to the book "in the hands of fate" biography of John De Pra was not the sox, but the Turin, at the hands of Count Marone Cinzano) (pg. 85) In 1924 he participated at the Olympic Games in Paris. In 1928 with the national team won the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928. Nineteen he collected in his career for his country distributed in about a decade of activity. His performance was a memorable meeting in Milan played against Spain's national, to the twentieth minute of the game the first time in a clash of the game he broke his arm and went on with a bandage for the remaining seventy minutes, contributing to the defense team against the attacks of Iberian and delivering the story to a tie 0 to 0 become, by virtue of this episode, absolutely legendary. Thanks to a popular subscription promoted by Guerin Sportivo he was given a gold medal in eternal memory of those deeds. The great sense of loyalty that marked his life allowed him to close a remarkable career that had ever been without a warning or imposed, let alone expulsion. He held the post of director of Genoa for many years after the war and until his death in Panathlon Club (formerly of Blue Italy). On July 25, 1972 he received the gold award for the Fronde to those at home and around the world honors the Ligurian land. On December 9, 1979, the year of his death, he was named the road that runs between the Bisagno and the stadium in Genoa, named after another great sport tied to Genoa and Genoa - Luigi Ferraris - as a tribute greatly liked by his fellow citizens. On the pitch was buried by the Mayor of Genoa, with an official ceremony, the medal won at Amsterdam in 1928 so that the values ​​of De Pra could symbolically be transmitted to future generations of football.