He competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics with the Italy national football team, where he won a bronze medal,[1] and was top scorer in the 1927–30 edition of the Central European International Cup, where he won a gold medal.

Rossetti began his career as a left-winger, and debuted at the age of fifteen in the 1919–20 championship with Virtus Spezia.

With Adolfo Baloncieri and Julio Libonatti he formed "the trio of wonders", Torino's prolific attack during the 1920s.

Rossetti closed the championship by scoring 36 goals in 30 games, setting the record of all-time most goals scored in a single Italian league season, later matched by Argentine Gonzalo Higuaín in the Serie A 2015–16 season.

He was a member of the Italian team which won the bronze medal in the 1928 Summer Olympic football tournament.