Shirt: Torino (home) Season: 1990-93 Manufacturer: ABM Sponsor: Indesit / Beretta Worn by: Rafael Martín Vázquez, Enzo Scifo, Luca Fusi, Walter Casagrande, Gianluigi Lentini. It’s not feasible to write...
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Tales from the Peninsula: Choreography, Chiellini & I Granata
The 9am Freciarossa from Stazione Centrale, Milano to Torino’s Porta Nuova station on Sunday February 18 was a fast way to start the build up to the Derby della Mole....
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The top 15 Italian club kits of the last 50 years
Not content with the debate sparked by our Top 10 Azzurri kits article earlier this year, we decided to put ourselves back in the firing line by compiling a list of the top...
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Graeme Souness’s 98-day disaster as Torino coach
“Graeme Souness, not Ferguson, knocked Liverpool off the top,” former Liverpool captain Jamie Carragher once claimed. The defender was of course was responding to the famous comment made by...
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Luigi Radice: The Torino icon who challenged Catenaccio with Total Football
In 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple, the Concorde completed its first commercial flight and the first movie of the Rocky franchise was released. In football too, it...
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Remembering Torino vs. Aberdeen: A classic Cup Winners’ Cup tie
Located in the far north-east of Scotland, the city of Aberdeen has many famous sons. Amongst them are the poet Lord Byron, but perhaps its most famous birth-son was...
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Breaking the curse: Torino’s triumph in the 1993 Coppa Italia
Shortly after Torino drew 0-0 against Ajax in Amsterdam to lose the 1992 UEFA Cup final, a dejected Roberto Cravero said: “There is only one club in the world...
Read MoreClassic Match: Torino vs. Juventus 2001/02
In the week leading up to match day 24 of the 2001-02 Serie A season, all the talk was of the Derby di Torino. Quite rightly so, as back...
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Double delight: Juve Kings of Italy, Toro Kings of Turin
“The Turin derby isn’t one of Italy’s biggest, it’s not as big as the Milan derby or the Rome derby, or even the Genoese derby” says Roberto, a Juventus...
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‘No winner’: The Allemandi Scandal and the Turin Derby of 1927
The summer of 1927 was scorching-hot in Turin. Temperatures were high and the city was alive with discussions about the last Scudetto, a Scudetto that was about to be...
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