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{{short description|Italian footballer and manager}}
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{{Infobox football biography
| name = Virgilio Fossati
| image = Fossati.jpg
| fullname = 
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1891|1|3|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Milan]], Italy
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1916|06|29|1891|1|3|df=y}}
| death_place = near [[Monfalcone]], Italy
| position = [[Midfielder]]
| years1 = 1909–1915
| clubs1 = [[Inter Milan]]
| caps1 = 97
| goals1 = 4
| nationalyears1 = 1910–1915
| nationalteam1 = [[Italy national football team|Italy]]<ref>[http://www.figc.it/nazionali/DettaglioConvocato?codiceConvocato=462&squadra=1 Figc.it]</ref>
| nationalcaps1 = 12
| nationalgoals1 = 1
| manageryears1 = 1909–1915
| managerclubs1 = [[Inter Milan]]
}}
'''Virgilio Fossati''' ({{IPA|it|virˈdʒiːljo fosˈsaːti}}; 3 January 1891 – 29 June 1916) was an Italian [[association football|footballer]] and manager. A  [[midfielder]], he played for and coached Italian club [[Inter Milan]], also representing the [[Italy national football team|Italy national team]]; he [[Captain (association football)|captained]] both teams throughout his career.

==Career==
Fossati spent his entire career with [[Inter Milan]]. He played 97 times for the club and scored 4 goals. Throughout his career, Fossati served as Inter and Italy's captain and also the first Inter player to play with the [[Italy national football team|Italy national team]]. On 15 May 1910, he scored in Italy's first official match, a 6–2 win over [[France national football team|France]]. He was also the first [[Player-coach]] for Inter from 1909 until 1915.

Fossati's career was ended by [[World War I]]. He died on 29 June 1916 near [[Monfalcone]] during the preparation of the [[Battle of Gorizia (1916)|Sixth Battle of the Isonzo]] between the [[Italian army|Italian]] and [[Austro-Hungarian Army|Austrian armies]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Simon |last=Martin |title=Sport Italia: The Italian Love Affair with Sport |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q6ScEvQEUEAC&pg=PA46 |publisher=[[I.B.Tauris]] |date=15 August 2011 |page=46 |isbn=9781845118204}}</ref>

His brother Giuseppe (born 1894) played 43 matches in three years with Inter.

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[[Category:1891 births]]
[[Category:1916 deaths]]
[[Category:Italian men's footballers]]
[[Category:Men's association football midfielders]]
[[Category:Italy men's international footballers]]
[[Category:Inter Milan players]]
[[Category:Italian football managers]]
[[Category:Inter Milan managers]]
[[Category:Italian military personnel killed in World War I]]
[[Category:Footballers from Milan]]
[[Category:20th-century Italian sportsmen]]


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