Émile Bongiorni

Émile Bongiorni

Personal information
Date of birth	19 March 1921
Place of birth	Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Date of death	4 May 1949(1949-05-04) (aged 28)
Place of death	Superga, Torino, Italy
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1938–1939	CA Paris	37	(18)
1944–1948	RC Paris	89	(43)
1948–1949	Torino F.C.	8	(2)
International career
1945–1948	France	5	(2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Émile Bongiorni (19 March 1921 – 4 May 1949) was a French association football striker of Italian descent.

He played for RC Paris where he was capped 5 times for France. In 1948, he moved to Torino F.C., with another Frenchman of Italian descent, Roger Grava of CO Roubaix-Tourcoing.^[1] They both died in the Superga air disaster on 4 May 1949.

Honours

Club

Torino

• Serie A: 1948–49

References

• Profile on French federation official site

1. "Le désastre de Superga,wearefootball.org". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2008.

External links

• Émile Bongiorni at the French Football Federation (in French)
• Émile Bongiorni at the French Football Federation (archived) (in French)