Aldo "Buff" Teo Donelli (July 22, 1907 – August 9, 1994) was an American football and soccer player. He is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame.
In 1925, Donelli played for Morgan F.C., a western Pennsylvania soccer team. At some point, he moved to Cleveland Slavia, playing for them at least the winter of 1929-1930. In January and February 1934, he is listed with Curry Silver Tops and then Heidelberg SC from February to April 1936. He als...
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Aldo "Buff" Teo Donelli (July 22, 1907 – August 9, 1994) was an American football and soccer player. He is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame.
In 1925, Donelli played for Morgan F.C., a western Pennsylvania soccer team. At some point, he moved to Cleveland Slavia, playing for them at least the winter of 1929-1930. In January and February 1934, he is listed with Curry Silver Tops and then Heidelberg SC from February to April 1936. He also played for Castle Shannon in March 1938.
Donelli was selected to the United States 1934 FIFA World Cup team. In a 4-2 qualifying victory over Mexico in Rome, Italy on May 24, he tallied all four times, becoming the first American to score his first three international goals with the senior team in the same match (Sacha Kljestan would become the second to achieve this feat on January 24, 2009). Three days later in the same stadium, Donelli scored the lone U.S. goal in its 7-1 first-round elimination loss to Italy. It would be the last one any...
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