He is regarded as one of the best players of his generation, having won Serie A 8 times, as well as two consecutive FIFA World Cup titles (in 1934 and 1938) with the Italy national football team.

[5] A creative, advanced midfield playmaker, Ferrari was a strong, physically fit, hardworking, versatile, and well-rounded footballer, as well as being a generous team player.

Ferrari began his footballing career with local club Alessandria in the prima divisione nazionale in 1923.

He was given credit over a seven-year period (1923–1930) with Alessandria and Napoli in total to play in 137 matches and scoring 78 goals.

[7] Over that five-year period (1930–1935), which was his first spell at Juventus, he played in 160 games and scored 66 goals, in addition to providing many assists.

Ferraris first taste of success with the Italy national team was as part of the silver medal winning 1931-32 Central European International Cup squad.

He later was the head coach of Italy from 1960 to 1961, and was part of the technical commission being co-manager with Paolo Mazza leading Italy in the 1962 FIFA World Cup.,[1][2][3][12] where Italy lost 1 match to the hosting nation Chile in the infamous Battle of Santiago (1962 FIFA World Cup), having 2 men sent off, while Chile had none sent off despite amongst other things, a left-hook punch by Chilean outside-left Leonel Sánchez to Italian right-back Mario David, & later Leonel Sánchez actually broke Humberto Maschio's nose with another left hook but the English referee Ken Aston did nothing;Ken Aston would never referee a World Cup match again.