[1] 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.

Rodolfo Volk was born in 1906 in the Adriatic port city of Fiume, Austria-Hungary (today Rijeka, Croatia), to an ethnic Slovene family.

[2] 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.

[1][2][4] Volk died, on the night between 2 and 3 October 1983, impoverished and forgotten in a nursery home in a small town of Nemi.