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Toro, the scudetto is now only in memory

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TURIN. The last championship is farther and farther away. 45 years have passed since Torino won the seventh championship in its history, the only one after the Superga tragedy. On May 16, 1976, a draw against Cesena was enough for the grenades to snatch him from Juventus, holder of the trophy. Bianconeri who after the first round seemed to be on their way to the 17th title, but had not reckoned with Toro who recovered three points behind and then closed at +2 on their usual rivals, whose defeat in Perugia was fatal due to a goal from Renato Curi.

At the Comunale there was a grenade party in the 90th minute, at the end of a painful match and closed on the result of 1-1. For Toro he marked the player who with his goals dragged the club to final success 27 years after those – in series – centered by Valentino Mazzola’s Grande Torino. That Paolo Pulici, who later became the greatest scorer in the history of Toro with 172 goals, who also won the scepter of top scorer in Serie A with 21 goals and who with Ciccio Graziani gave life to one of the best assorted pairs of strikers ever, remembered by all as the “goal twins”.

It was Gigi Radice’s team who arrived in Turin for the first time after the adventure in Cagliari, a bittersweet experience for the Lombard technician who, despite the salvation he had won, received the welcome. But the owner of Toro Orfeo Pianelli had already laid his eyes on that coach, who inserted the last piece – the conductor – in a group that year after year grew in quality and conviction. The presidentissimo saw it well that time as well, entrusting the team to a coach who became the precursor of modern football thanks to his vision of total football on the model of Holland. But that day Radice not even enjoyed the incredible triumph, complaining about the draw (Mozzini’s own goal) which took the 15th consecutive home victory away from the grenade.

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Yet the Taurus did not start the season well. Immediately eliminated from the Italian Cup and defeated on the first day against Bologna, at one point he also accumulated 5 points behind Juventus (at the time the victory was worth two points). In the distance, however, the strength of a group that had known each other for some time came out and to which only a few pieces were added, Eraldo Pecci and Vittorio Caporale arrived from Bologna, plus Patrizio Sala taken from Monza. Purchases that fit into a squad already of great value, also embellished by the class of Claudio Sala who became the “poet of goals”, by the hunger of a young Renato Zaccarelli and by the saves of the “jaguar” Luciano Castellini.

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