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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...
