Giuseppe Grezar
| Giuseppe Grezar | ||
 Giuseppe Grezar 1949
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | November 25, 1918 | |
| place of birth | Trieste , Italy | |
| date of death | May 4, 1949 | |
| Place of death | Superga , Italy | |
| position | midfield | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1938-1942 | US Triestina | 83 (15) |
| 1942-1943 | AC Turin | 30 (3) |
| 1944 | Ampelea Conservifici | 15 (1) |
| 1945-1949 | AC Turin | 124 (16) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1942-1948 | Italy | 8 (1) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Giuseppe Grezar (born November 25, 1918 in Trieste , † May 4, 1949 in Superga ) was an Italian football player . As part of the famous Grande Torino team , he won five Italian championship titles and also made eight international matches for his home country.
Career
Giuseppe Grezar was born on November 25, 1918 in the northern Italian city of Trieste , which had just recently fallen under Italy . He learned to play soccer at the local US Triestina club , where he first attended the youth department and was finally accepted into the club's first team in 1938 at the age of twenty. Triestina was a consistent first division team at the time, so that Giuseppe Grezar played at the highest level of Italian club football from the start of his career. He played for the US Triestina from 1938 to 1942 and made a total of 83 league games with fifteen goalscoring for his employer during this time. The best place was sixth in the Serie A 1937/38 .
In the summer of 1942, Giuseppe Grezar was signed by AC Turin , who at that time formed one of the best teams in the history of Italian football under President Ferruccio Novo . With players like Valentino Mazzola , Ezio Loik and Romeo Menti , the club dominated the 1940s of Calcio . In the 1942/43 season , Giuseppe Grezar's first season at the Stadio Filadelfia , the first championship title of this successful phase was achieved. In Serie A , first place was taken one point ahead of the surprise team from US Livorno . Since the championship was paused for two years due to the war, the successful Grande Torino team also had to take a break. During this break in 1944 Giuseppe Grezar played for a year at Ampelea Conservifici in what is now Slovenia , but at that time it was part of Italy. From 1945 he was back on the pitch for AC Turin and directly helped his team to the first post-war championship in Serie A in 1945/46 . In the final round they secured first place one point ahead of local rivals Juventus . The big team of AC Turin won the third Italian championship title in a row in the 1946/47 season , when they finished the season first with ten points before Juventus. Torino had already landed three championship titles in a row, but number four was added in the following season. They finished first again, this time with an incredible sixteen point lead over second-placed AC Milan . The tournament attack also set a new record with 125 goals in one season, which has not yet been exceeded. Torino played just as dominantly in the 1948/49 season and secured their fifth championship title in a row with a draw at AS Bari at the end of April . Afterwards, club president Novo agreed a friendly match in Lisbon . On the return flight, the Fiat G.212 plane crashed into the Superga mountain near Turin. The Superga air disaster survived none of the occupants, the great age of Grande Torino was thus at a stroke over. Giuseppe Grezar was also among the victims of the accident, the midfielder turned 30 years old.
Almost two decades after the death of Giuseppe Grezar, Trieste named its largest urban stadium, the Stadio Communale , the venue for the 1934 World Cup and home of the US Triestina, to become Stadio Giuseppe Grezar . The club used it as their home stadium until 1992, when they moved to the larger and more modern Stadio Nereo Rocco . Today the Stadio Giuseppe Grezar is still used by a local Trieste club.
successes
- Italian championship : 5 ×
- Italian cup win : 1 ×
- 1942/43 with AC Turin
Web links
- Giuseppe Grezar in the database of weltfussball.de
- Player Profile (Italian)
- List of international matches (Italian)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Grezar, Giuseppe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 25, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trieste |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 4, 1949 |
| Place of death | Superga |