Edoardo Bosio

Edoardo Bosio
	Edoardo Bosio in 1889
Personal information
Full name	Edoardo Johann Peter Bosio
Date of birth	9 November 1864
Place of birth	Turin, Kingdom of Italy
Date of death	31 July 1927 (aged 62)
Place of death	Davos, Switzerland
Position(s)	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team
1887–1891	Torino FCC
1891–1899	Internazionale Torino
1900–1902	FBC Torinese
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Edoardo Bosio (Italian pronunciation: [edoˈardo ˈbɔːzjo]; 9 November 1864 – 31 July 1927) was an Italian footballing innovator from Turin who played as a forward.^[1]^[2] 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.^[3] He was also a clever rower of the Armida Rowing Club in Turin.

Biography

As a young man, Bosio was a merchant worker in the British "Thomas Adams" textile industry,^[4] as part of his work he had the opportunity to live in Nottingham, England for a while and experienced the game of football.^[3] 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

Internazionale Torino

Italian Football Championship runners-up: 1898, 1899

Torinese

Italian Football Championship runners-up: 1900

Individual

Capocannoniere: 1898

Filmography

1914 - La Vita Negli Abissi Del Mare

References

^ O. VIGLIANI 80 - S.R.L. Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Imprese nel tempo
^ Turco, F.; Savasta, V. (2014), Il Calcio dimenticato. Toro,Genoa, Milan, Juve, il pallone dei pionieri (in Italian), Editori Internazionali Riuniti, pp. 18–29
^ ^a ^b "Edoardo Bosio and Football in Turin". Life in Italy. Retrieved 1 August 2007.
^ Thomas Adams was born in 1807 at Worksop.