Torino Football Club

[Reed]

I wish you had made it to Europa Legaue. You desevered it better.

[Godescalco]

What Toro needs is to keep improving for next season.

You missed European qualification just by the skin of your teeth this season - it was too bad that penalty kick missed by Cerci - but if you continue growing like this, you'll certainly qualify for the European competitions sooner rather than later.

Forza Toro!

[The Maverick]

Too bad this Year...

Keep working and you will succeed!

Forza Torino!

[xicovsky]

Amazing what happened in Turin... walking on the streets with Benfica scarf and everybody wishing luck to Benfica saying they were from Torino.

[cyborgturim]

Proud of our team,proud of Alessio Cerci!

We'll rise again....

[Jotenko]

Seems like this year we are all in shatters because of Europa League. We'll comeback someday.

[cyborgturim]

Torino Fc supporters

Stadio Filadelfia from 1926 to 1963





Stadio Comunale from 1963 to 1990





Stadio Delle Alpi from 1990 to 2006





Stadio Olimpico from 2006

[Ned Kelly]

I wrote this on the topic about the Superga tragedy on the Memories section:

"Queria agradecer a hospitalidade dos adeptos do Torino e fiquei extremamente impressionado com a popularidade que o clube goza na sua cidade. Mais interessante se considerarmos que a Juve é o clube mais popular de Itália e que, em termos de vitórias, 1949 marcou um ponto de não retorno (até hoje) para o Torino em termos de conquistas face ao seu rival.

A minha (nossa) homenagem aos que morreram após homenagearem um dos nossos heróis desses tempos, Chico Ferreira."





All the best to Torino!

[cyborgturim]

Luigi "Gigi" Meroni (24 February 1943 – 15 October 1967) was an Italian footballer who played as a winger.

He died at the age of 24, shortly after the end of a match between Torino, the team to which he belonged, and Sampdoria, hit by a car while crossing Corso Re Umberto in Turin with his friend and teammate Fabrizio Poletti. He played 145 matches in Serie A, scoring 29 goals.

He began to play football in a small courtyard of 60 square meters, before playing on the Oratorio di San Bartolomeo at Como. At the age of two he lost his father, while his mother Rose, a professional weaver, had economic difficulties raising three children: Celestino, Luigi (Nicknamed, then, Gigi) and Mary. His first job was as a silk necktie designer, he also devoted himself to painting.

His football career began with the Como youth sector, where he also made his debut for the first team, albeit in the second division. Meroni was then sold to Genoa. In the shadow of the Lanterna, Meroni had moments of great notoriety. The magic threatened to crack on the last match of the season, when he refused to undergo the examinations when called to a doping control, saying that he had forgotten the test in the hotel. Three other players tested positive for amphetamines and Meroni was suspended for the first five days of the championship in 1963.

In 1964, despite the discontent of the Genoa fans, Meroni was sold to Torino, coached by Nereo Rocco, a team on the rise after the tragic decline following the tragedy of Superga, for 300 million lire, at the time a record for a player of only 21 years of age.

He was nicknamed the "butterfly", with reference to his style of play and anticonformist outfits (he was notorious for his cohabitation as husband and wife with a young divorcee, Cristiana Uderstadt) and the "beatnik del gol" (the beatnik of football) for his artistic interests and hippie style.

Along with striker Nestor Combin, he formed a successful attacking partnership, preceding the glorious attacking partnership of Paolo Pulici and Francesco Graziani at Torino years later.

Rumors of his move to Juventus, for an offer of 750 million lire, triggered a sort of "crisis" and then popular Torino president Orfeo Pianelli, under the pressure of the fans, had to decline.

In 1967 at San Siro, after one of his famous dribbles, he lobbed the ball from the edge of box into the top corner of the goal, interrupting the unbeaten home run of the "Grande Inter" of Helenio Herrera, forcing Inter Milan to be defeated after three years of positive results.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigi_Meroni

[cyborgturim]

Gigi Meroni

[Godescalco]

Thanks for sharing that, cyborgturim!

[Jotenko]

Gigi Meroni

[JJ SLB]

"Il Parma è ancora privo di 'Licenza Uefa'. Il Torino torna in corsa per l'Europa League"

Is that true? Is yet possible to Torino to play in Europa League next season because there is a problem with Parma authorization?

[cyborgturim]

"Il Parma è ancora privo di 'Licenza Uefa'. Il Torino torna in corsa per l'Europa League"

Is that true? Is yet possible to Torino to play in Europa League next season because there is a problem with Parma authorization?

Yes there is,Parma has a problem with the italian taxes.
We don't want to go in Europa League in this manner.

[cyborgturim]

Gigi Meroni

He was an unlucky genius