Football protagonists part 1 - Ferruccio NOVO

Location: primitive field, north side, area B, Novo family tomb nr. 558

Ferruccio NOVO - Born in Turin on March 22, 1897. Died in Laigueglia (SV) on April 8, 1974.
President of the "Grande Torino" from 1939 to 1953 and head of the technical commission of the National from 1949 to 1950. Ferruccio Novo was the owner of a leather accessories factory together with his brother. He became passionate about football as a boy, also joining the Turin reserve team. Of the grenade team he later became a councilor until in 1939 he assumed the presidency. With the collaboration of Ernest Egri Erbstein and the advice of Vittorio Pozzo, he began to build an exceptional team, capable of winning 5 consecutive championships (interspersed with the Second World War), which interrupts this hegemony only with the Superga plane crash of 4 May 1949.
In the meantime Novo replaced Pozzo for a short time as the technical guide of the National team, bringing the Azzurri to the World Cup in 1950. After the tragedy of Superga, Novo was no longer able to properly rebuild the team and resigned from the position of president in 1953. He died at 77 on the Ligurian Riviera where he retired to live after the death of his wife.

(Texts and research by Giovanni Arbuffi / Pianezza -To)