Superga Disaster
Despite suffering from illness, Mazzola was determined to attend the match he had organised for Torino in Lisbon in 1949. On May 4, on the return journey from the game, the aircraft carrying Mazzola and the rest of the team crashed, killing everyone on board and leaving only one first-team player at Torino alive.
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