The Blizzard: Torino 5-3 Atalanta, 1947
Football Ramble
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🗓️ 16 May 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
We look back at one of the famous sides of post-war Europe on today’s episode of Greatest Games, in association with The Blizzard. Journalist and author Dominic Bliss joins us to discuss the Grande Torino side and their 5-3 win over Atalanta in the 1946/47 Serie A season.
After managing Torino in 1939, Jewish coach Ernő Egri Erbstein had to return to Hungary as the Second World War begun. He saw no alternative but to volunteer himself to work in fascist labour camps to try and survive – after six torturous years where he and his family endured the worst of the Hungarian holocaust, he managed to escape the camp and stay alive. After the war ended, he returned to Torino and coached a side that had won two Serie A titles since his departure, on the back of his central European counter-attacking football that was so prevalent at the time. Dominic joins us to discuss Erbstein’s remarkable life, his return to Turin and his place among the pantheon of great Hungarian coaches.
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| 0:00.0 | We are back here in Torino, Italy tonight, a city with many proud traditions. It's also a city with one very painful memory. |
| 0:08.0 | It involves the members of a sports team who were positively worshiped here until something terrible happened. |
| 0:15.0 | The most beautiful person in the world is a photographer. |
| 0:18.0 | Ores Elichin, 65 years old, a photographer and a journalist from the Gratina. |
| 0:21.0 | Jean-Paul Oormitzano never missed a Torino home game as a boy. |
| 0:25.0 | They were the best of Torino, Italy and they were the best interpreter of the Renaissance of the nation. |
| 0:34.0 | Hello ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Great Scames podcast on Football Rambled Daily in association with the Blizzard. |
| 0:40.0 | My name is Marcus Bela, opposite me is Jonathan Wilson. Joining us is Dominic Bliss, feature writer and author of Herbstin, |
| 0:48.0 | the triumph and tragedy of footballs forgotten pioneer Dominic. Pleasure to have you with us. |
| 0:53.0 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:54.0 | Today we've got a historical one. We go back to the 40s, 1946-47s Seria season. It's Torino. |
| 1:02.0 | The game we're looking at is Torino 5 at Elanter 3. Dominic, why have you chosen this game? |
| 1:08.0 | I think it's difficult to pick a perfect game for the Grand Aterino because they had five seasons of dominance in the post-war era, |
| 1:17.0 | one during the Second World War, where they won Seria five times in a row. |
| 1:22.0 | Their manager and the architect of that team was Erno Agriherbstin, a Hungarian Jew who was in Budapest, |
| 1:30.0 | fleeing persecution from the Nazis during the war. His time in charge of the team hands on was quite limited to two and a half seasons. |
| 1:40.0 | This season was probably the most effective one from his standpoint, where he really stamped his authority on the team |
| 1:48.0 | and the way they played and the structure of the club. This game in particular showed an aspect of the team that really fascinated me, |
| 1:55.0 | which was disability to drag themselves out of the doldrums if the game was getting away from them. |
| 2:00.0 | It's a game where they were two no-up, were pegged back to two all by a strong at Elanter team, |
| 2:04.0 | who were one of their Bogey teams, they'd been four times across the period, which is remarkable for that Grand Aterino side. |
| 2:12.0 | There was, I suppose, something that happened every time they looked a little bit flat was the train porter who supported them called Almeda, |
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