Roger Grava
Roger Grava (in Italy Revelli Ruggero Grava ; born April 26, 1922 in Claut , † May 4, 1949 in Turin ) was an Italian - French football player .
life and career
Early life and entry into football
Grava, who was born in Italy, came to France in 1923 at the age of eleven months, where his father had moved in search of work. In the 1930s, the family found a new home in Saint-Ouen, near Paris. The 178 centimeter tall striker began playing football in 1939 at AS Roma , an association of Italian emigrants in Paris. He then played for AS Meudon and AC Amiens . During the 1943/44 season he took with the teams ÉF Nancy-Lorraine and ÉF Bordeaux-Guyenne , who replaced the club teams not allowed at the time, in the war-related unofficial hosting of the national championship.
Professional in France and Italy
In 1945 he was in the squad of the northern French first division club CO Roubaix-Tourcoing , which was involved in the resumption of regular game operations after the end of the Second World War in the same year . The then 23-year-old became a regular player straight away and scored eleven times in his first year as a professional player. In the following season he was similarly successful with ten goals and thus contributed to the fact that the CORT won the French championship in 1947. A possible title defense was clearly missed in 1947/48 with an eighth place. In the summer of 1948 Grava returned to the French league after 84 games with 29 goals, decided to return to his Italian homeland and signed with the reigning champions AC Turin . In the team, however, in view of the strong competition, he had no prospect of a place in the first team and only made his debut in Serie A on December 26, 1948 in an encounter against Genoa, which was also his only game in the Italian league .
death
On May 4, 1949, Grava was on board a plane that was supposed to bring the AC Turin team back home from a friendly in Lisbon. At 5:05 p.m., the plane crashed by Superga in the immediate vicinity of Turin airport , in which all 31 occupants of the plane lost their lives. He was 27 years old at the time of his death. On the final days of the match, Turin was able to defend its top position in the table and thus posthumously became part of the Italian championship team from 1949.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Grava Ruggero , fedelissimigranatapesaro.com
- ^ Roger Grava - Fiche de stats du joueur de football , pari-et-gagne.com
- ↑ HOMAGE TO ROGER GRAVA , cortfree.fr
- ^ Ruggero Grava complete profile ( Memento from March 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), soccerdatabase.eu
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grava, Roger |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grava, Ruggero |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian-French soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Claut , Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 4, 1949 |
| Place of death | Turin , Italy |