Valerio Bacigalupo
| Valerio Bacigalupo | ||
 Valerio Bacigalupo in the late 1940s
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | March 12, 1924 | |
| place of birth | Vado Ligure , Italy | |
| date of death | May 4, 1949 | |
| Place of death | Superga , Italy | |
| size | 177 cm | |
| position | goalkeeper | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1934-1941 | Savona 1907 FBC | 20 (0) |
| 1941-1943 | CFC genoa | 20 (0) |
| 1944-1949 | AC Turin | 137 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1947-1949 | Italy | 5 (0) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Valerio Bacigalupo (born March 12, 1924 in Vado Ligure , † May 4, 1949 in Superga ) was an Italian football player in the position of goalkeeper.
Career
societies
He started FBC at Savona in 1907 and then went to CFC Genoa . There he stayed only a short time and moved to the legendary AC Turin . The team was considered the best team in Italy and also provided most of the Italian national team. With Turin he won the championship four times in a row.
Bacigalupo's older brother Manlio Bacigalupo also played as a professional footballer.
National team
During his time at AC Turin he made five appearances in the Italian national football team .
death
After AC Turin was confirmed as Italian champions in 1948/49 after 1-1 in Bari , President Ferruccio Novo arranged a friendly against Benfica in Lisbon . On the way back, the plane that was carrying the crew of the Grande Torino back home collided with a rock on the Superga pilgrimage hill near Turin in heavy fog and crashed. All inmates died in the accident, including players and coaches from AC Turin. Bacigalupo also died on May 4th 1949, he was 25 years old. Only Sauro Tomà was left of the big Torino team after the crash, as he had not flown due to an injury.
In his Ligurian homeland in Savona , the stadium of the Savona 1907 FBC , which opened in 1959, was named Stadio Valerio Bacigalupo .
successes
- Italian champion (4): 1945/46 , 1946/47 , 1947/48 , 1948/49
Web links
- Valerio Bacigalupo in the database of weltfussball.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Enciclopedia Del Calcio ( Memento from January 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Simon Pia: The day the dream team of Italian football died (pay-per-view) . In: Scotland on Sunday , May 2, 1999. Archived from the original on March 29, 2015. Retrieved on November 30, 2012.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bacigalupo, Valerio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vado Ligure , Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 4, 1949 |
| Place of death | Superga , Italy |