Edoardo Bosio

Edoardo Bosio

Edoardo Bosio in 1889
Personal information
Full name Edward Johann Peter Bosio
Date of birth (1864-11-09)9 November 1864
Place of birth Turin, Italy
Date of death 31 July 1927(1927-07-31) (aged 62)
Place of death Davos, Switzerland
Playing position Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1887-91 Torino FCC 0 (0)
1891-99 Internazionale Torino 4 (?)
1900-0? FBC Torinese 1+ (3+)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (goals)

Edoardo Bosio (1864-1927) was an Italian-Swiss footballing innovator from Turin.[1][2] He is a prime figure in the history of Italian football as evidence exists to show that he founded the earliest football club in the country; Torino Football and Cricket Club.[3] He was also a clever rower of the Armida Rowing Club in Turin.

Biography

As a young man, Bosio was a merchant worker in the British "Thomas Adams" textile industry,[4] as part of his work he had the opportunity to live in London, England for a while and experienced the game of football.[3] Upon returning to his native Turin in 1886 he was determined to spread the word of football in his homeland; he brought back a leather ball and founded Torino Football and Cricket Club that year.

Bosio remained involved with the club after they merged with Nobili Torino to form Internazionale Torino. This is the club with whom he competed in the earliest Italian Football Championships, picking up two runners-up medals with the club. He even lured the famous Herbert Kilpin into Italian football, when he was hired to work for Bosio in the textiles industry.

In 1900 Bosio remained with the club as they merged into FBC Torinese, picking up another runners-up spot and notably scoring a hat-trick against Milan in the semi-finals of the Italian Football Championship which made him the topscorer of the tournament.

Honours

Filmography

References

  1. ↑ O. VIGLIANI 80 - S.R.L. Imprese nel tempo
  2. ↑ Turco, F.; Savasta, V. (2014), Il Calcio dimenticato. Toro,Genoa, Milan, Juve, il pallone dei pionieri (in Italian), Editori Internazionali Riuniti, pp. 18–29
  3. 1 2 "Edoardo Bosio and Football in Turin". Life in Italy. Retrieved August 2007.
  4. ↑ Thomas Adams was born in 1807 at Worksop.

Further reading


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, March 28, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.