Grande Torino
The team of the Italian soccer club FC Turin of the 1940s is called Grande Torino .
Until the Superga plane crash , in which almost the entire team (except for defender Sauro Tomà , substitute goalkeeper Renato Gandolfi and midfielder Luigi Giuliano , who were not on board) perished on May 4, 1949 , the Grande Torino was by far the one strongest team in Italy and won the Italian football championship five times in a row ( 1942/43 , 1945/46 , 1946/47 , 1947/48 and 1948/49 ) .
Many of the records set by the Grande Torino are still in place today. Most of the players were also Italian internationals. As a rule, eight to nine Grande Torino players were on the starting line-up of the Italian national team . In the friendly against Hungary on May 11, 1947, which Italy won 3-2, the Grande Torino provided all ten field players. Only goalkeeper Lucidio Sentimenti came from Juventus .
Player and supervisor of the Grande Torino
- Goalkeepers : Valerio Bacigalupo , Dino Ballarin
- Defenders : Aldo Ballarin , Virgilio Maroso , Danilo Martelli , Mario Rigamonti , Sauro Tomà
- Midfield : Eusebio Castigliano , Rubens Fadini , Giuseppe Grezar , Ezio Loik , Valentino Mazzola
- Forwards : Émile Bongiorni , Pietro Ferraris , Roger Grava , Guglielmo Gabetto , Romeo Menti , Franco Ossola , Július Schubert
- Trainers : Luigi Ferrero , Antonio Janni , András Kuttik , Leslie Lievesley , Mario Sperone
- Technical Directors : Roberto Copernico , Ernő Erbstein
Web links
- The last machine. When Turin's dreams shattered on the mountain , article about the plane crash in 1949 on 11freunde.de