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Edoardo Bosio

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Place of birth
  
Turin, Italy

Role
  
Football player

Height
  
1.81 m

Playing position
  
Striker

Position
  
Forward

Name
  
Edoardo Bosio


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Full name
  
Edward Johann Peter Bosio

Date of birth
  
(1864-11-09)9 November 1864

Date of death
  
31 July 1927(1927-07-31) (aged 62)

Died
  
July 31, 1927, Davos, Switzerland

Place of death
  
Davos, Switzerland

Edoardo Bosio (1864-1927) was an Italian-Swiss footballing innovator from Turin. 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. He was also a clever rower of the Armida Rowing Club in Turin.

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Biography

As a young man, Bosio was a merchant worker in the British "Thomas Adams" textile industry, as part of his work he had the opportunity to live in London, England for a while and experienced the game of football. 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

  • 1898 Italian Football Championship runners-up (Internazionale FC Torino)
  • 1899 Italian Football Championship runners-up (Internazionale FC Torino)
  • 1900 Italian Football Championship runners-up (FC Torinese)
  • Filmography

  • 1914 - La Vita Negli Abissi Del Mare
  • References

    Edoardo Bosio Wikipedia


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