Spartaco Orazi was born in Rome on April 7, 1902. He was known as Orazi I as he had a younger brother Vezio who also played football and was called Orazi II.
Spartaco joined Lazio at 14 and started playing for the first team in 1919-20. The manager was Guido Baccani in all his Lazio years. In 1923 Lazio reached the Scudetto final but lost 1-6 on aggregate to Genoa. The following year the great keeper Ezio Sclavi arrived but Lazio finished 2nd in the Interregional Semi-finals behind Savoia so did not fight for the title.
Orazi played 84 league games for Lazio but was also a 400 metres athlete. He was one of the masterminds behind the setting up of the University Games in 1922. After retiring he worked for Lazio as a counsellor.
Outside sport he graduated in Civil Engineering in 1927 and he opened a studio in Palazzo Poli, in Via del Corso. He was involved in several projects including the Flaminio Stadium and Palazzo Marescialli, now council of the judiciary headquarters. He also worked in the coal extraction field in the Sulcis region of Sardinia.
He was in fact flying from Ostia to Cagliari on July 30, 1941 when he died at 39. His flight had a technical problem and crashed.
His brother, Vezio, died not even a year later. During the war he was killed by Tito's partisans while in Dalmatian territories near the Yugoslav border. He later was awarded a gold medal for civil valour by the government.
Spartaco Orazi was with Lazio for eight years, four years with the first squad. He played 84 league games, played a Scudetto final and played alongside some Lazio legends such as Ezio Sclavi, Fernando "Cecè" Saraceni, Luigi Saraceni, Augusto Faccani, Pio Maneschi, Dante "Strofoleppe" Filippi and Fulvio "Fuffo" Bernardini to name a few.
Lazio Career
Season | Total appearances (goals) | National Championship | Other Tournaments |
1917-18 | 1 | - | 3 |
1919-20 | 17 | 11 | 6 |
1920-21 | 17 | 17 | - |
1921-22 | 19 | 16 | 3 |
1922-23 | 19 | 19 | - |
1923-24 | 10 | 10 | - |
Total | 85 | 73 | 12 |
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