Grande Torino

A formation of the Grande Torino, multiple champions of Italy

The Grande Torino (Italian for 'Great Torino') was the historic Italian football team of Torino Football Club in the 1940s, five-time champions of Italy, whose players were the backbone of the Italy national team and died on 4 May 1949 in the plane crash known as the Superga air disaster.[1]

With this name, although it is commonly used to identify the team that died in the disaster, it defines the entire sports cycle which lasted eight years and led to the conquest of five consecutive championships, equaling the record previously set by Juventus of the Quinquennio d'oro; Grande Torino also won a Coppa Italia.[2][3]

  1. ^ http://www.studiodostuni.it/sections/article.php?id_a=1055[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "Superga tragedy strikes Il Grande Torino". fifa.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Archived from the original on May 5, 2014. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  3. ^ "La Storia del Torino Fc". www.torinofc.it (in Italian). Torino Football Club. Retrieved 19 March 2015.