Edoardo Bosio (; 9 November 1864 – 31 July 1927) was an
Italian
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footballing innovator from
Turin
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who played as a
forward
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. 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
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Origins of the club
Two ol ...
.
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 "
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" textile industry,
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was born in 1807 at Worksop
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. as part of his work he had the opportunity to live in
London
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,
England
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for a while and experienced the game of
football
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.
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
Internazionale Football Club Torino commonly known as just Internazionale Torino was an Italian football club from Turin. The club was founded by a merger in 1891 and is the third Italian club dedicated to football.
Origins of the club
Two ol ...
that year.
Bosio remained involved with the club after they merged with
Nobili Torino
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to form
Internazionale Torino
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Two ol ...
. This is the club with whom he competed in the earliest
Italian Football Championship
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s, picking up two runners-up medals with the club. He even lured the famous
Herbert Kilpin
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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
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Origin
The term first appeared in 1858 in cricket, to describe H. H. Stephenson taking three wic ...
against
Milan
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in the semi-finals of the Italian Football Championship which made him the topscorer of the tournament.
Honours
Internazionale Torino
*
Italian Football Championship
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runners-up:
1898
Events
January–March
* January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, B ...
,
1899
Events January 1899
* January 1
** Spanish rule ends in Cuba, concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas.
** Queens and Staten Island become administratively part of New York City.
* January 2 –
**Bolivia sets up a c ...
Torinese
*Italian Football Championship runners-up:
1900
As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15), 2 ...
Individual
*
Capocannoniere
The ''Capocannoniere'' award (; literally "head gunner"), known as Paolo Rossi Award1898
Events
January–March
* January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, B ...
Filmography
*1914 - ''La Vita Negli Abissi Del Mare''
References
Further reading
*
* Carla F. Gütermann, Giulia Boringhieri, ''Birrifici a Torino: dai Bosio ai Boringhieri'', in «Arte&Storia», Svizzeri a Torino: nella storia nell’arte nella cultura nell’economia dal Quattrocento ad oggi, Edizioni Ticino Management, anno 11, numero 52, ottobre 2011.
Lugano
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2011, pp. 522–529.
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Italian footballers
1864 births
1927 deaths
Footballers from Turin
Founders of association football institutions
Association football forwards