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Fiume, a forge of champions
An inexhaustible source of champions who made the fortune of Italian sport before and immediately after the war. Footballers, boxers, tennis players, athletes… There are many – impossible to list them all – Rijeka players who contributed to the successes of the Azzurri, winning Olympic, world and European titles as well as obtaining results of absolute prestige in other international events. In the collective imagination, Ezio Loik was perhaps the best exponent of Rijeka football. A hard-working midfielder, with a rather stocky physique and a not very elegant bearing, he was nicknamed “elephant”. One of the pillars of the Grande Torino, he perished in the tragedy of...
The great Julian-Dalmatian champions
The National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia presents SO FAR SO CLOSE ADALBERTO SCEMMA TELLS THE STORIES OF THE GREAT GIULIAN DALMATIAN CHAMPIONS They are all great champions, sports people, accustomed to hard work, sacrifice and success. They all come from an enchanted strip of land, kissed by the sun and the sea, but mortified by history, by unfortunate pacts and by the painful experience of exile. All of them have honored the roots of their land, all of them, so far away and yet ideally always so close to their roots, have honored sport in its maximum expression. These are their...
In memory of Ezio Loik
May 4th marked the 72nd anniversary of the Superga tragedy On May 4th 1949, what everyone remembers as the Superga tragedy occurred in Turin. At 17.03:212 p.m., the Fiat G.31 of the ALI airline, registered I-ELCE, with the entire Grande Torino football team on board, returning from Lisbon, where it had played a friendly match against Benfica, crashed into the wall of the rear embankment of the Basilica of Superga, which stands on the Turin hill; there were 72 victims, including the Rijeka footballer Ezio Loik. 12 years after that tragedy, we want to remember him with a class photo in which he appears still very young. It was taken on June 1937th XNUMX...
