Virgilio Maroso

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Virgilio Maroso
Personnel
birthday June 26, 1925
place of birth Marostica ,  Italy
date of death May 4, 1949
Place of death Superga ,  Italy
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
AC Turin
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1944 US Alessandria 12 (0)
1945-1949 AC Turin 103 (1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1945-1949 Italy 7 (1)
1 Only league games are given.

Virgilio Maroso (born June 26, 1925 in Marostica , † May 4, 1949 in Superga ) was an Italian football player . As part of the famous Grande Torino team , he won four Italian championship titles and also made seven caps for his home country.

Career

Virgilio Maroso was born on June 26, 1925 in Marostica in the province of Vicenza . As a teenager he attended the AC Turin football school . The cousin of the legendary Swiss national team captain Severino Minelli had his first engagement in the adult sector in 1944 with the US Alessandria , where he booked twelve missions as part of the unofficial war championship.

The defender then returned to his hometown club AC Turin and experienced the club's most successful period here, whose team went down in the annals of Italian football as Grande Torino . After a championship title had already been won at Stadio Filadelfia before the war-related break in play , they also prevailed in the first championship after the end of the Second World War and finished the final round in first place with a lead of one point over local rivals Juventus Turin . A total of ten points separated Torino in the 1946/47 season from the first pursuer, who was again called Juventus. In 1947/48 the large AC Turin team finally reached the peak of their work. With 128 goals this season and an unbelievable gap of sixteen points on second-placed AC Milan , they won the title of Italian football champions for the fourth time in a row. In the 1948/49 season , too, AC Turin was extremely sovereign and was able to secure the fifth championship title in a row at the end of April 1949. As a result, club president Ferruccio Novo agreed in a friendly against Benfica in Lisbon, Portugal . On the return flight from Lisbon, the plane that was transporting the Turin team crashed into Turin's local mountain Superga in heavy fog . All 27 passengers and the four crew members were killed. Virgilio Maroso also left his life in Superga, he was only 23 years old. With this misfortune, the heyday of AC Turin ended suddenly, the club had to wait almost three decades for its next championship. Today you are more of a gray mouse than one of the top teams in the Italian elite league.

Virgilio Maroso made a total of 103 league games for AC Turin between 1945 and 1949. He succeeded in scoring. The defender was also found in the Italian national soccer team . Between 1945 and 1949 he ran into a total of seven times, and here, too, a hit jumped out. He scored this in his last international match against Portugal in early 1949 (final score: 4: 1).

The US Marosticense from his hometown named his football stadium after him in his honor.

successes

1945/46 , 1946/47 , 1947/48 and 1948/49 with AC Turin

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personal data
SURNAME Maroso, Virgilio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Marostica , Italy
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1949
Place of death Superga , Italy