Émile Bongiorni (19 March 1921 – 4 May 1949) was a French footballer who played as a
striker
He played for
RC Paris
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The club was founded in 1882 as a multi-discipline sports club, and is one of the oldest clubs in Fr ...
where he was capped five times for
France
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. In 1948, he moved to
Torino F.C.
Torino Football Club (), colloquially referred to as Toro, is an Italian professional football club based in Turin, Piedmont that currently plays in the Serie A, the highest football league of Italy. Founded in 1906 as ''Foot-Ball Club Torin ...
, with another Frenchman of Italian descent,
Roger Grava
Ruggero Grava (26 April 1922 – 4 May 1949) was an Italian footballer who played as a striker.
He moved to France at the age of 1. He began his playing career with Amiens AC and played for ÉF Nancy-Lorraine, EF Bordeaux-Guyenne, Bordeaux a ...
of
CO Roubaix-Tourcoing
Club Olympique de Roubaix-Tourcoing was a football club based in Roubaix, France. The team was founded in 1945 in a merge of three clubs: Excelsior AC Roubaix, RC Roubaix and US Tourcoing. In the 1946–47 season, the club won the Division 1 ...
.
They both died in the
Superga air disaster
The Superga air disaster (, "Tragedy of Superga") occurred on 4 May 1949, when a Fiat G.212 of Avio Linee Italiane (Italian Airlines), carrying the entire Torino F.C., Torino association football, football team (popularly known as the ''Grande ...
on 4 May 1949.
Honours
Torino
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Serie A
The Serie A (), officially known as Serie A Enilive in Italy and Serie A Made in Italy abroad for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Italy and the highest tier of the Italian football league system. Establish ...
:
1948–49
References
Profile on French federation official site
External links
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1921 births
1949 deaths
French sportspeople of Italian descent
French men's footballers
France men's international footballers
Men's association football forwards
Racing Club de France Football players
Ligue 1 players
Torino FC players
Serie A players
French expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
Sportspeople from Boulogne-Billancourt
Footballers from Hauts-de-Seine
Footballers killed in the Superga air disaster
20th-century French sportsmen
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