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'Something disastrous has happened': How an airplane crash wiped out one of soccer's greatest teams

'Something disastrous has happened': How an airplane crash wiped out one of soccer's greatest teams

A local boy born in the northern Italian city of Turin and the captain of Torino's youth team, Motto seemed destined to represent his boyhood club. On May 4, 1949, Motto was giving a tour of Turin to two clients of his parents' factory, which manufactured shirts for Torino and the Italian national team.