The Italian team published a video on their social networks that thanks River for the solidarity that River had towards them after the 1949 air tragedy that left the entire Torino team dead.
By Nadir Ghazal
05/04/2024 – 10:51am ART
May 4, 1949 contains one of the saddest pages in the history of football worldwide, since on that fateful day it left 31 dead in a plane crash. which had as fatal victims the entire Torino team, some leaders, journalists and also crew members of that flight.
The Italian team was returning to their country after having played a friendly match against Benfica, and that was when the fatal accident occurred that shocked the world of football in general and River in an extremely special way, since the Greatest, with the initiative of its president Antonio Vespucio Liberti, decided to travel to Italy to play a friendly match with the aim of raising money to help the victims’ families.
And that was how The Millionaire faced a team of Italian soccer players on May 26 of that year and in front of more than 60,000 people. From then on, an unbreakable brotherhood was born between both clubs, where even River has played on several occasions with alternative burgundy shirts in tribute to Torino.
The emotional video of Torino remembering River
This Saturday the social networks of the Italian team woke up with the latent memory in what is a memory 75 years after the Superga air tragedy occurred, and In the published video, River’s shield appears at the end of it as a sign of gratitude and eternal recognition.either. Likewise, the club’s official social networks replicated the same.
