Born and raised in Milano, Tino Crotti learned how to skate when he was eight-years-old and took up ice hockey three years later. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s Crotti played his domestic career in the city where he represented both HC Milano Inter and Diavoli HC. He was only 15-years-old when he made his international début for Italy in January 1952. His international career was almost as long as his domestic one, which also included him competing at the 1956 Cortina d’Ampezzo Olympics. After his playing career Crotti worked as a coach with the national team and he later became the President of Italy’s technical ice hockey commission.
Italy