Thanks for the post. I'm almost ashamed I never heard of this. What a show of respect and sportsmanship by the four teams.

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Added on May 6, 2009, 3:33 pmThanks for the post. I'm almost ashamed I never heard of this. What a show of respect and sportsmanship by the four teams.

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Added on May 6, 2009, 3:39 pmThanks for the post. I'm almost ashamed I never heard of this. What a show of respect and sportsmanship by the four teams.

This post has been edited by Duke Red: May 6 2009, 03:39 PM

RIP.

Thanks for the post. Learned quite a few things today. FIAT aircraft, WM formation....



I wonder what points system they used.

thanks to everyone for the comments. cheers to u all.


a short video in english abt the Superga disaster :

a side story : here's another incredible tragedy that Torino suffered after Superga.




Luigi "Gigi" Meroni, born in 1943, was a young winger with great talents and techniques. By the age of 19, he joined Genoa and had a couple of good seasons with them. He impressed Nereo Rocco, Torino's manager at that time. Rocco believed that Meroni was destined for greatness, and signed the young man in1964. Meroni was 21 by then, 15 years after the Superga disaster.

Impressed the Granata crowd almost immediately, Meroni went on to became the darling of Turin people. Nicknamed 'La Farfalla Granata' - 'The Granata Butterfly' - Meroni was a flamboyant right winger with exceptional pace and skills, a master of the nutmegging move. Eventually, he was dubbed as 'Italy's George Best', which show you of how highly rated he was.



Torino became a capable side once again after the perish of Il Grande Torino. Hopes were high, and the fans loved Meroni to dead, worshipped him as the saviour that they all had been waiting for years. Everyone was expecting Meroni to lead them and bring back the long lost glory to Torino once again. But in an unexpected twist of fate, on the night of October 15, 1967, tragedy struck again.

Meroni was hanging out with some friends in town, and as he was crossing a road, he got ran over by a car, and was killed almost immediately. He was only 24, just barely joined Torino for 3 years. Every Granata fans' dream was crushed, and thier hearts shattered. Torino had, once again after Valentino Mazzola, lost their dearest son. They failed to challenge for the top that season, and finished at the 7th place.



Ironically, the young man who drove the car that killed Meroni, Attilio Romero, was a devoted Torino fan, and had a large poster of Meroni on the wall of his room. And astonishingly, more than 3 decades later, Romero - the man who crushed the club's dream in the 60s - would went on to became the president of Torino, served from 2000 to 2005.

This post has been edited by Chrisky: May 6 2009, 11:04 PM

wow... speechless.... Torino is really a tragic....