Giovanni Moscardini

Club career

Moscardini subsequently returned to his family home of Barga. Playing football for local team AS Barga, he was spotted by a scout from Lucchese. Playing for them from 1919, Lucca (as the club were then named) in 1920–21 re-joined the Tuscany section of Prima Categoria, a predecessor Italian Football Championship to the 1929 formed Serie A. While at Lucca, in November 1921 he debuted for the Italian National Team. While with Lucca, he travelled as a guest player with Genoa CFC on their 1923 four game tour to Buenos Aires and Montevideo. He played in the last three of they games; firstly against a Combined Southern team, then in games against each of Uruguay and Argentina. He scored versus Uruguay. After five years playing for Lucchese he switched to Pisa playing in 1924-25 Prima Divisione (from which Prima Categoria had been re-branded). An RSSSF article on Scotsmen playing in Italy credits him scoring 18 goals that season for Pisa. The RSSSF article for the Italian Football Championship that season credits him with scoring two goals.

International career

Between 1921 and 1925 Moscardini he scored 7 goals in his 9 Italy games. He scored debuting for Italy in the 1–1 draw versus Switzerland on 6 November 1921. On 15 January 1922 he scored two drawing 3–3 versus Austria. On 21 May 1922 he scored winning 4–2 versus Belgium. His fifth international goal was on 27 May 1923, losing a 5–1 at Czechoslovakia. He scored two in his last Italy game, versus…

The Stadio Communale Johnny Moscardini in Barga bears his name. In 2016 Barga Mayor, Umberto Sereni, unveiled a photographic tribute to Moscardini outside the stadium. Johnny Moscardini inspired a musical composition titled "Il Saluto di Giovanni Moscardini" (Johnny Moscardini's Salute). The composition is a reel for pipes and drums, brass band, strings, and percussion. It was composed by Blair Douglas. In 2016, renewed interest in Moscardini led to the creation of the Moscardini Cup, competed for by teams of writers from Scotland and Italy. The Italian team won the game 5–0 played at the Stadio Johnny Moscardini in 2016. Moscardini's years in Campbeltown are the subject of a poem by Thomas Clark, titled O Johnny Moscardini!.