The fog enveloped the Hill of Superga, you said that you saw in 30 meters. The rain was coming down strong. The wind ripped through the silence. It was these three natural elements to witness the tragic end of the Grande Torino. The Torino was returning to Italy aboard an airplane, fiat g. 212, from Lisbon after playing a friendly match. The Portuguese team captain Francisco Ferreira had invited l’ friend rival Valentino Mazzola to play a game with their respective teams. After you fly into Barcelona, a brief meeting at the airport with players of Milan, grenade team resumed the journey to Turin. At 17.05 in the mist, in the rain and wind came the crash with the base of the basilica of Superga. The head coach of the national team was Vittorio Pozzo, and resided in Turin. Winningest coach in Italian history with the world 34 and 38 and the Olympic Games 36. In the years 40 He built the national with ten players of Juventus Turin and one. That day was called him to recognize the bodies of players grenade. Il Grande Torino was gone. To earn that definition just mention that that team won five consecutive championships from 1943 at 1949, without prejudice to the 1945 No Championship. Being essential for networks and game WINS, legendary performance. The historical context in which that Turin was contruibuì to make unique and unrepeatable legend. In 1939 Ferruccio Novo bought the club grenade. In 1941 the war had already started l’ year before and Novo began building the team by purchasing players Ferraris Minds Gabetto Bodoira and Borel he joined Ossola already the club since 1939. The following year they completed the squadron with Loik and Mazzola for stratospheric figure of a million and two hundred thousand lire and the sale of Bodoira and Petron. The soccer players of the series to dell’ mimamente era were not comparable with those of today. Valentino Mazzola every morning he walked in bicycle 30 km from Cassano at Portello in Milan where he was a labourer all’ Alfa Romeo, the evening always cycling came home in all weather conditions. During the war the players were sent to work in the factory and sometimes went to play in the province where were also food supplies. The Championships that followed accompanied the major events that changed l’ Italy forever, the end of the monarchy in 1946 and the birth of the Republic, the new Constitution of 1948. A year after the fatal 4 may 1949. FIFA recently ruled that the 4 may was the world day of football. It was said that a team so could never grow old to surrender all’ eternity by vincente, going over his tragic fate land.
Hector Parker
