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TORINO 1948/49TORINO 48/49
Following the 1949 air crash, Torino were forced to bring in new players and promote youth team members. Although the team never again reached the level of Il Grande Torino they did finish a respectable 6th in the 49/50 season.
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TORINO 1948TORINO 1948
Attacking midfield player Valentino Mazzola was captain of the legendary Grande Torino and was tragically killed in the Superga air disaster. He scored 118 goals in 195 appearances for the club.
Pictured in the back row: Castigliano, Ballarin, Rigamonti, Liok, Maroso, Mazzola. Front row: Bacigalupo, Menti, Ossola Martelli, Gabetto.
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TORINOTorino 1944
Torino 1944
Grande Torino played with the 4-4-2 10 years before the Brazil 1958 World Cup team, and used some similar tactics to the Dutch Total Football style which revolutionized the game in the 1970s.
The starting lineup of Grande Torino included Valerio Bacigalupo, Aldo Ballarin, Virgilio Maroso, Pino Grezar, Mario Rigamonti, Eusebio Castigliano, Romeo Menti, Ezio Loik, Guglielmo Gabetto, Valentino Mazzola, and Franco Ossola; the son of Ossola is now the major biographer of the Club's history.
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TORINO 1975/76TORINO
Pictured is the Scudetto winning team of 1975/76. Paolo Pulici or 'Paolino' as he was called was top scorer that season with 21 goals.
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TORINO 1975 / 76TORINO 75/76
Francesco Gaziani joined the granata in 1973, and soon became a key player for the team, winning the Serie A in 1976. In 1977, he was the Serie A top-scorer with 21 goals. From 2004 to 2006, he coached Cervia, an amateur team of Emilia-Romagna from Eccellenza league which was subject of an Italian reality show, Campioni - Il Sogno. He led the team to an immediate promotion to Serie D, becoming popular with the public because of his hot-blooded attitudes.
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On 4 May 1949 one of Italy's greatest ever club sides was wiped out in an horrific plane crash over Turin, leaving no survivors. Torino had completed 5 successive championships up to 1949 and provided no fewer than 10 players for Italy's game against Hungary. -
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