Stadio Mario Rigamonti is a soccer stadium located in

Brescia Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Ise ...

, Italy. It is currently the home of

Brescia Calcio Brescia Calcio, commonly referred to as Brescia (), is an Italian football club based in Brescia, Lombardy, that currently plays in . The club holds the record for total number of seasons (64) and consecutive seasons (18, from 1947–48 to ...

. It is dedicated to

Mario Rigamonti Mario Rigamonti (; 17 December 1922 – 4 May 1949) was an Italian football player, who played as a central defender for Torino F.C. and the Italy national football team. He died in the Superga air disaster together with the whole ''Grande Tori ...

, a defender of the

Grande Torino The Grande 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 Sup ...

, born in Brescia, who died in the Superga air disaster in May 1949.

Gallery

File:Stadio Rigamonti with rainbow (2015).jpg, Stadio Rigamonti in 2015

References

Mario is a character created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. He is the title character of the '' Mario'' franchise and the mascot of Japanese video game company Nintendo. Mario has appeared in over 200 video games since his c ...

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