Mario Rigamonti

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Mario Rigamonti
Personnel
birthday December 17, 1922
place of birth Brescia ,  Italy
date of death May 4, 1949
Place of death Superga ,  Italy
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
before 1941 AC Brescia
1941-1943 AC Turin
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1944 AC Brescia 13 (4)
1945 Calcio Lecco
1945-1949 AC Turin 140 (1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1947-1949 Italy 3 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Mario Rigamonti (born December 17, 1922 in Brescia , † May 4, 1949 in Superga ) was an Italian football player who belonged to the so-called Grande Torino , the successful AC Turin team , and like almost all of his teammates in the 1940s Superga plane crash was killed.

Career

Mario Rigamonti was born on February 17, 1922 in the northern Italian city of Brescia in Lombardy . At the local football club Brescia Calcio , at the time under the name AC Brescia , he also began his football career and initially went through the club's first youth teams. Rigamonti was discovered by the talent scouts of AC Turin as a youth player at AC Brescia . This was followed by a commitment by the Turinese, and Rigamonti acted from 1941 to 1943 in the youth department of AC Turin.

In those years, however, Italy was far from having professional gaming operations. Due to the Second World War and the domestic political unrest associated with the overthrow of Mussolini's fascist rule, the Italian championship was suspended from 1943 to 1945, and no official competitions took place. During this time, Mario Rigamonti was first awarded by AC Turin in 1944 to AC Brescia and in 1945 to Calcio Lecco , where he gained match practice and finally returned to the Stadio Filadelfia for the 1945/46 season. Here Rigamonti became a regular in the team of coach Luigi Ferrero . The team around players such as Valentino Mazzola , Guglielmo Gabetto or Pietro Ferraris was able to continue the era of success that had begun before the war-related break and secured the title in the Italian football championship in 1945/46 with a first place in the final round, one point ahead of Juventus Turin . For the 1946/47 season one returned in Italian football to the system known from pre-war times, according to which the champions were determined using a pure league system. Here, too, Torino showed itself to be very successful and won three more championship titles in a row by 1949. Mario Rigamonti had a considerable part in this, he made 140 league games for Granata between 1945 and 1949 , with the midfielder scoring a goal.

Between 1947 and 1949 Mario Rigamonti was also used in three international matches of the Italian national football team , but he did not succeed in scoring.

Death and honors

After the AC Turin team had won the Italian championship in 1948/49 with a draw at AS Bari , club president Ferruccio Novo arranged a friendly game in Portugal against the local top club Benfica Lisbon . On the way home from the match, which AC Turin won 4-3, the plane that was supposed to bring the team back to Italy got into trouble when approaching Turin and hit a church on Turin's local mountain Superga in thick fog . All the occupants of the Fiat G.212 died, including eighteen AC Turin players, as well as the staff and a number of other passengers. With the players of AC Turin ended a great era for the club, which afterwards found it very difficult to build on old successes. After slipping into Serie B in the meantime , it wasn't until 1976 that the championship was won again - for the last time until today.

After his death in Superga, a total of two stadiums in Italy were named after Mario Rigamonti. On the one hand, the stadium of his home club, Brescia Calcio, has been called Stadio Mario Rigamonti since it opened in 1959 . This sports facility offers space for almost 23,000 spectators and is currently used as a venue for home games in Brescia Calcio. In addition to Brescia, Rigamonti also played briefly for Calcio Lecco, the club's stadium bears the name Stadio Rigamonti-Ceppi in reference to Mario Rigamonti and also to the president of the club at his most successful time in the 60s, when first division football can be seen for a few years . Nowadays Calcio Lecco plays but nurmehr in fünftklassigen Series D .

successes

1945/46 , 1946/47 , 1947/48 , 1948/49 with AC Turin

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personal data
SURNAME Rigamonti, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Brescia , Italy
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1949
Place of death Superga , Italy