Stadio Mario Rigamonti is a
soccer stadium
Soccer-specific stadium is a term used mainly in the United States and Canada to refer to a sports stadium either purpose-built or fundamentally redesigned for soccer and whose primary function is to host soccer matches, as opposed to a multi-p ...
located in
Brescia
Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo. ...
, Italy. It is currently the home of
Brescia Calcio.
It is dedicated to
Mario Rigamonti, a defender of the
Grande Torino, born in Brescia, who died in the
Superga air disaster
The Superga air disaster occurred on 4 May 1949, when a Fiat G.212 of Avio Linee Italiane (Italian Airlines), carrying the entire Torino football team (popularly known as the ''Grande Torino''), crashed into the retaining wall at the back of th ...
in May 1949.
Gallery
File:Stadio Rigamonti with rainbow (2015).jpg, Stadio Rigamonti in 2015
References
Mario Rigamonti
Mario
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Buildings and structures in Brescia
Sports venues in Lombardy
Brescia Calcio
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