Romeo Menti

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Romeo Menti
Personnel
birthday September 5, 1919
place of birth Vicenza ,  Italy
date of death May 4, 1949
Place of death Turin ,  Italy
position Storm
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1934-1938 ACIVI 82 (34)
1938-1941 AC Florence 75 (44)
1941-1943 AC Turin 50 (23)
1944 AC Milan 9 0(1)
1945-1946 AC Florence 18 0(7)
1946-1949 AC Turin 81 (31)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1947-1949 Italy 7 0(5)
1 Only league games are given.

Romeo Menti (born September 5, 1919 in Vicenza , † May 4, 1949 in Turin ) was an Italian football player . He played in the position of winger and was a member of the Grande Torino .

Career

For the 1938/39 season, Romeo Menti moved from his home club Vicenza Calcio to the then Serie B club AC Fiorentina . In the first season he was promoted to Serie A here . The club was able to hold its own here in the following seasons, and in the 1939/40 season they even won the Coppa Italia . In the 1941/42 season Menti then moved to AC Turin, where he stayed until the 1945/46 season when he returned to Florence for one season before moving again to AC Turin.

Tombstone of Romeo Menti

On May 4, 1949, Romeo Menti died in the Superga plane crash . In this accident, the Grande Torino team was almost completely wiped out. He is buried on the Cimitero Monumentale della Misericordia in Antella .

In the same year (1949), in memory of Menti, the Vicenza City Council decided to rename the city's football ground to Stadio Comunale Romeo Menti .

successes

Web links

  • Romeo Menti in the database of weltfussball.de
  • Romeo Menti at www.enciclopediadelcalcio.it (Italian)
  • Romeo Menti on the side of the Italian Football Association (Italian)
personal data
SURNAME Menti, Romeo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Menti II
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Vicenza , Italy
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1949
Place of death Superga , Italy