Giovanni Varglien (; 16 May 1911 – 16 October 1990), also known as Varglien II, was an Italian

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manager and player from

Fiume Rijeka (; Fiume ( �fjuːme in Italian and in Fiuman Venetian) is the principal seaport and the third-largest city in Croatia. It is located in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County on Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea and in 2021 had a po ...

who played as a

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Club career

Varglien played the majority of his club football for

Juventus Juventus Football Club (; from , ), commonly known as Juventus or colloquially as Juve (), is an Italian professional Association football, football List of football clubs in Italy, club based in Turin, Piedmont, who compete in Serie A, the ...

in Italy, also playing one season with his hometown club

Fiumana Unione Sportiva Fiumana or U.S. Fiumana was an Italian football club based in the present-day Croatian city of Rijeka and the predecessor of HNK Rijeka. The club was active between 1926 and 1945, at the time when the city was part of the Kingdo ...

, as well as

Palermo Palermo ( ; ; , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province. The ...

International career

Varglien represented the

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on three occasions between 1936 and 1937.

Personal life

Giovanni's older brother

Mario Varglien Mario Varglien (; 26 December 1905 – 11 August 1978), also known as Varglien I, was an Italian football player and manager born in Fiume (today Rijeka), who played as a midfielder. Club career Varglien played club football with Juventus for mo ...

, also played for Juventus at the same time and was a

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winner with Italy.

Honours

Juventus *

Serie A The Serie A (), officially known as Serie A Enilive in Italy and Serie A Made in Italy abroad for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Italy and the highest tier of the Italian football league system. Establish ...

: 1930–31, 1931–32, 1932–33, 1933–34, 1934–35 *

Coppa Italia Coppa Italia () is the annual domestic cup of Italian football. The knockout competition was organized by the DDS and the Lega Calcio until the 2009–10 season and by Lega Serie A ever since. Juventus is the competition's most successf ...

: 1937–38, 1941–42 Palermo *

Serie B The Serie B (), officially known as Serie BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 season. It had b ...

: 1947–48

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Varglien, Giovanni 1911 births 1990 deaths Footballers from Rijeka Italian men's footballers Italian Austro-Hungarians Men's association football midfielders Italy men's international footballers Serie A players Serie B players US Fiumana players HNK Rijeka players Juventus FC players Palermo FC players Italian football managers Italian expatriate football managers Palermo FC managers Atalanta BC managers LR Vicenza managers Turkey national football team managers ASD Biellese 1902 managers 20th-century Italian sportsmen