Rodolfo Volk

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title: "Rodolfo Volk" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1906-births", "1983-deaths", "us-fiumana-players", "hnk-rijeka-players", "as-roma-players", "pisa-sc-players", "italian-men's-footballers", "footballers-from-rijeka", "italian-people-of-slovenian-descent", "serie-a-players", "serie-b-players", "serie-c-players", "men's-association-football-forwards", "refugees-of-world-war-ii", "20th-century-italian-sportsmen"] description: "Italian footballer (1906–1983)" topic_path: "history" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodolfo_Volk" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Field	Value
name	Rodolfo Volk
image	Rodolfo Volk (anni trenta).jpg
birth_date
birth_place	Fiume, Austria-Hungary
death_date
death_place	Nemi, Italy
position	Forward
years1	1925–1926
clubs1	Gloria Fiume
caps1	15
goals1	10
years2	1926–1927
clubs2	Fiorentina
caps2	14
goals2	11
years3	1927–1928
clubs3	Fiumana
caps3	16
goals3	16
years4	1928–1933
clubs4	Roma
caps4	157
goals4	103
years5	1933–1934
clubs5	Pisa
caps5	30
goals5	16
years6	1934–1935
clubs6	Triestina
caps6	6
goals6	1
years7	1935–1942
clubs7	Fiumana
caps7	145
goals7	74
years8	1945–1946
clubs8	R.O.M.S.A. Fiume
caps8	2
goals8	0
years9	1946–1948
clubs9	Proleter Fiume
years10	1948–1949
clubs10	Montevarchi
caps10	14
goals10	5
nationalyears1	1929–1930
nationalteam1	Italy B
nationalcaps1	5
nationalgoals1	5
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| name = Rodolfo Volk | image = Rodolfo Volk (anni trenta).jpg | full_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = Fiume, Austria-Hungary | death_date = | death_place = Nemi, Italy | height = | position = Forward | years1 = 1925–1926 | clubs1 = Gloria Fiume | caps1 = 15 | goals1 = 10 | years2 = 1926–1927 | clubs2 = Fiorentina | caps2 = 14 | goals2 = 11 | years3 = 1927–1928 | clubs3 = Fiumana | caps3 = 16 | goals3 = 16 | years4 = 1928–1933 | clubs4 = Roma | caps4 = 157 | goals4 = 103 | years5 = 1933–1934 | clubs5 = Pisa | caps5 = 30 | goals5 = 16 | years6 = 1934–1935 | clubs6 = Triestina | caps6 = 6 | goals6 = 1 | years7 = 1935–1942 | clubs7 = Fiumana | caps7 = 145 | goals7 = 74 | years8 = 1945–1946 | clubs8 = R.O.M.S.A. Fiume | caps8 = 2 | goals8 = 0 | years9 = 1946–1948 | clubs9 = Proleter Fiume | caps9 = | goals9 = | years10 = 1948–1949 | clubs10 = Montevarchi | caps10 = 14 | goals10 = 5 | nationalyears1 = 1929–1930 | nationalteam1 = Italy B | nationalcaps1 = 5 | nationalgoals1 = 5 Rodolfo Volk (Sometimes italianized in Rodolfo Folchi) (14 January 1906 – 2 October 1983) was an Italian footballer who played as a forward.

Volk is regarded as one of the most prolific goalscorers in the history of Roma and is remembered as the club's first goalscorer in an official match. As of May 2020 he is the fourth best goalscorer in Roma's history, having scored 103 goals in 157 league appearances. In 2018, he was inducted into the club's Hall of Fame.

Career

Volk was born in Fiume in 1906 and began to play football for U.S. Fiumana, the team of his city; he was known to be a powerful striker.

He played a non-official match with Fiorentina under the fake surname of Bolteni, this was because he was serving in the military, and was not permitted to do any other activity.

In 1928 he was signed up by the newly formed Italian club A.S. Roma and became one of its most important players during the 1920s and the 1930s. He was the first official goalscorer in Campo Testaccio, the club's first-ever stadium.

Playing a total of 150 games with the Giallorossi, he scored 103 goals for the club, and scored the first goal in the first ever Derby della Capitale, a 1–0 victory against cross-city rivals S.S. Lazio in 1929.

During the 1930–31 season, he was the Serie A top scorer with 29 goals in 33 games, helping Roma to finish as runners-up in the league.

He left Roma in 1933, due to personal problems with Enrique Guaita and Elvio Banchero, and was signed up by Pisa.

Personal life

Rodolfo Volk was born in 1906 in the Adriatic port city of Fiume, Austria-Hungary (today Rijeka, Croatia), to an ethnic Slovene family. The meaning of his family name Volk in Slovene is wolf, a symbol of the club Roma where he spent his most prolific playing days and is considered a club legend. During the interwar period and the fascist state policy of forced Italianization he was known under the Italianized name of Rodolfo Foschi (or Folchi). In 1934 his first wife Giovanna died prematurely. After World War II he and his second wife Maria, together with his two sons, were forced to leave Rijeka and were eventually settled in a refugee camp in Laterina. Later in life he moved to Rome and made a living with the help of a number of low-paying jobs. Volk died, on the night between 2 and 3 October 1983, impoverished and forgotten in a nursery home in a small town of Nemi.

Honours

Fiumana

• Serie C: 1940–41

Individual

• Serie A top scorer: 1930–31 (29 goals)
• A.S. Roma Hall of Fame: 2018

References

References

1. Gorazd Nejdely. (29 May 2020). "Celar kot Mlakar, SNL namesto Serie B". [[Delo (newspaper).
2. Adriano Stabile. (8 February 2019). "Volk, primo bomber della Roma: il dramma del suo esodo da Fiume riemerge in un libro". [[La Stampa]].
3. Davide Aprilini. (14 January 2020). "14 gennaio 1906: nasce Rodolfo Volk. Il primo a scrivere la storia giallorossa". Siamolaroma.
4. Nicolo Giraldi. (13 April 2020). "La storia dimenticata del fiumano Volk, attaccante della Roma morto in una casa di riposo". Trieste Prima.
5. (11 June 2015). "Italy - Serie A Top Scorers".
6. "Volk".

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