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...