Giuseppe_Grezar

Giuseppe Grezar

Giuseppe Grezar

Italian footballer

Giuseppe Grezar (Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppe ɡrеˈdzar]; 25 November 1918 – 4 May 1949) was an Italian football player, who played as a midfielder for Torino F.C. and died in the Superga air disaster together with the whole Grande Torino team.[1]

Quick Facts Personal information, Date of birth ...

Career

Grezar was born in Trieste. He played as a midfielder, debuting for Triestina. He was acquired by Torino in 1942.

With Torino, Grezar played 154 times and won five consecutive Serie A scudetti, until dying with most of the team in the Superga air disaster near Turin, in May 1949. He was capped eight times for the Italy national team, scoring one goal. He also played with Ampelea Isola in 1944.[2]

The Stadio Giuseppe Grezar in Trieste is dedicated to him.

Honours

Club

Torino

Individual

References

  1. [1]
    "Giuseppe Grezar".
  2. [2]
    Pino Grezar Archived 2013-10-05 at the Wayback Machine at tuttotrieste.net, retrieved 10-5-2015 (in Italian)
  3. [3]
    De Marzi, Massimo (2 December 2016). "Castellini, Fossati, Grezar e Claudio Sala inseriti nella Hall of Fame granata". Torino Oggi (in Italian). Retrieved 19 February 2021.
Flag of ItalySoccer icon

This biographical article related to association football in Italy, about a midfielder born in the 1910s, is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Giuseppe_Grezar, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.