Émile Bongiorni

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Émile Bongiorni (born March 19, 1921 in Boulogne-Billancourt , † May 4, 1949 in Superga , Italy ) was a French football player .

Club career

«Milo» Bongiorni came from the youth of CA Paris , where he developed into an athletic center forward with a goal rank and in the 1943/44 season - during World War I and German occupation of France  - was part of the regular cast of the Équipe Fédérale Paris-Capitale . This regional selection formed on the instructions of the Vichy regime together with 15 others instead of club teams the nationwide first division , in the Bongiorni, a "very British player type with a southern European shade", with 37 hits as the third-best league goalscorer, a significant share in his third rank Team in the final ranking. When this experiment was subsequently abandoned, he joined Racing Paris .

In his first year there he won the French Cup after a 3-0 win in the final , although, unlike in the previous rounds, he did not score in the final against OSC Lille . But Émile Bongiorni was appointed to the national team for the first time at the end of 1945 (see below) . In the following three years, however, the capital club played neither in the championship nor in the Coupe de France with a lot of chances for a title, although the center forward there alongside well-known teammates such as Auguste Jordan , Maurice Dupuis , Oscar Heisserer , Lucien Jasseron , Ernest Vaast and Lucien Leduc ran up. Personally, he made it to 10th place among the league goalscorer in 1948 with 16 hits.

After the Italian world champion coach Vittorio Pozzo had praised the game culture in post-war France in the highest tones, clubs there turned their attention to French players, and especially to those with ancestors of Italian origin. In 1948, AC Turin , who dominated Serie A at the time, signed Roger Grava from CO Roubaix-Tourcoing and Émile Bongiorni. In “Milos” first year at “ Grande Torino ”, the team was already the champions several match days before the end of the season. As a result, the club agreed at short notice a friendly game at Benfica Lisbon , to which the team traveled to Portugal during the week. On the return flight the plane crashed in Superga not far from Turin ; this disaster, which went down in history as the tragedy of Superga, cost all but one of the players their lives - including Bongiorni, who was only 28 years old. At the funeral service, the victims were posthumously awarded the Scudetto .

Stations

  • Cercle Athlétique de Paris (until 1943, of which 1942/43 in war syndicate with Stade Français )
  • Équipe Fédérale Paris-Capitale (1943/44)
  • Racing Club de Paris (1944–1948)
  • Associazione Calcio Torino (1948/49)

In the national team

Between December 1945 and June 1948, Émile Bongiorni was used in five games in the French national team and scored one goal each (against Belgium and Scotland ). He made his debut in the Bleus 4-1 defeat in the Prater Stadium against Austria , and his last game in this circle ended in a defeat (4-2 in Belgium).

Palmarès

  • French champion: Nothing
  • French cup winner: 1945
  • Italian champion: 1949 (posthumous)
  • 5 international matches (2 goals) for France

literature

  • Denis Chaumier: Les Bleus. Tous les joueurs de l'équipe de France de 1904 à nos jours. Larousse, o. O. 2004 ISBN 2-03-505420-6
  • Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2007. Vecchi, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-7328-6842-6
  • Jean-Philippe Rethacker / Jacques Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. Minerva, Genève 1996, 2003 2 ISBN 978-2-8307-0661-1

Remarks

  1. ↑ According to Rethacker / Thibert, S. 176, it should, however, from Fontenay-sous-Bois originate
  2. ↑ Chaumier, p. 49
  3. ↑ Guillet / Laforge, p. 145
  4. ^ Jean Cornu: Les grandes equipes françaises de football. Famot, Genève 1978, p. 105
  5. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4 , pp. 95 and 361
  6. ↑ Guillet / Laforge, p. 149
  7. ↑ Rethacker / Thibert, p. 186
  8. ^ Alfred Wahl / Pierre Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995 ISBN 978-2-0123-5098-4 , p. 131; Rethacker / Thibert, p. 190
  9. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-951-96053-0 , pp. 309-311.

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personal data
SURNAME Bongiorni, Émile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Boulogne-Billancourt
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1949
Place of death Superga