During the 1942–43 season Associazione Calcio Torino competed in Serie A and Coppa.
Summary
At the start of the 1942–43 season, available to Hungarian András Kuttik,[2] there's a squad that includes top players: experts goalkeepers Bodoira and Cavalli; defenders of expertise such as Ferrini, Ellena and quality like Piacentini and Cassano; in midfield the veterans Baldi and Gallea, with the new Ezio Loik and Mazzola; forward Menti and Ferraris, without forgetting Gabetto and Ossola.
On paper Torino is the team to beat, but the departure is not the best: the Bull is to compete with surprise Livorno. This duel creates a thrilling championship, solved only on the final day when Torino, with a goal of Mazzola, sunk Bari.
Torino also managed to win the Coppa Italia against their "terrible" Venezia of the year before and became the first team to hit the "double".[3][4] The game is played in Milan and the Granata, thanks to a brace from Gabetto and goals from Mazzola and Ferraris II, get the win with a resounding 4–0.
Squad
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^"La Storia del Torino Fc". www.torinofc.it (in Italian). Torino Football Club. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
^Suspended at '88' due to riot with score 3-1. Awarded 2-0 by Italian Federation (DDS).
External links
Fabrizio Melegari (a cura di). Almanacco illustrato del calcio - La storia 1898-2004, Modena,. Panini, 2004.
Fabrizio Melegari e Luigi La Rocca. Storia del Campionato Italiano dal 1942-43 al 1949-50: Calciatori 1942-43. edizione speciale per "La Gazzetta dello Sport" Franco Cosimo Panini Editore, Modena, 2005.
