Elvezio D'Orazi

Elvezio D'Orazi was born in Rome on, May 24, 1920.

Source Lazio Wiki

At 13 he was part of the young Lazio team who went down in history. It was a great honour in 1933 when the Lazio's U14s were invited to Vienna by the great Hugo Meisl (the man behind the Austrian "Wunderteam" of the 1930s, one of the best sides in the world at the time) to play a friendly against the Wacker boys team. The event took place before an international match between Austria and Belgium, in front of 50,000 spectators. The Wacker boys were older and physically a lot stronger. They were an excellent team and accustomed to winning with margins of several goals. Nobody gave the Lazio boys much chance, but they battled hard, played well and drew 1-1. They were applauded off the field and returned to Rome as heroes.

D'Orazi later joined the Lazio first team squad in 1939 and stayed two seasons. In the first, under Géza Kertesz, Lazio finished 4th in Serie A. He played 1 league game. In the second the Biancocelesti finished 14th, first under Kertész, then Ferenc Molnár and finally Dino Canestri. He played 3 league games and 1 in Coppa Italia where Lazio reached the semifinals.

In 1941 he went on loan to Ala Littoria in Serie C and a year later joined Alba Roma in Serie C.

In 1943 he was back at Lazio. The war meant national leagues were interrupted but continued at regional level. In Rome they played the Roman War League which Lazio won in 1944 and came 2nd in 1945. D'Orazi played 8 league games with 2 goals (Alba Roma, Alverotec) plus another 4 in the Città di Roma tournament with 1 goal.

In 1945 he left Rome and joined Ternana in Serie C. The Umbri finished 5th under Eraldo Pangrazi but were promoted to Serie B on pre-war sporting merits. The Rossoverdi then finished 2nd and 11th (relegated) in group C of the second tier. D'Orazi played 90 league games with 15 goals in his three-year spell in Terni. One of his managers in the third season was former Lazio player, Luigi Milano (1936-40).

In 1948-49 he played one last season with Avellino in Serie C. The manager was Alfonso Ricciardi (who would later in 1962 briefly be Lazio technical director) and the Irpini won promotion after a playoff (Catania 1-0) but were then relegated due to charges of corruption.

D'Orazi then retired at 29.

He was a winger whose main satisfactions were playing in Serie A for Lazio and Serie B for Ternana. He will also always be remembered for taking part in the feat of Vienna as a kid.

Lazio Career

Season	Total games (goals)	Serie A	Coppa Italia	Roman War Championship	Other
1939-40	1	1	-	-	-
1940-41	4	3	1	-	-
1943-44	5 (1)	-	-	5 (1)	-
1944-45	7 (2)	-	-	3 (1)	4 (1)
Total	17 (3)	4	1	8 (2)	4 (1)

Sources

Lazio Wiki