Bruno Pizzul’s anecdote: “That’s why I became a Torino fan…”

In più interviste Bruno Pizzul aveva raccontato della sua ammirazione per il Torino: ecco il motivo che lo spinse a tifare per i granata

A great commentator and journalist, Bruno Pizzul-who passed away at the age of 86-had told of his passion for Toro and Grande Torino. An admiration that blossomed into cheering as he recounted in an interview with La Verità in 2021.

“Yes. In these parts-he was originally from Cormons, in Friuli Venezia Giulia-it was easy to admire the Big Bull. But my peers and I became Torino fans for another reason. In the immediate postwar period, the situation here was very hard: we didn’t know whether we would stay with Italy or end up with Yugoslavia. We had nothing. Miraculously, however, the village priest managed to find a ball, which he used to call us together in the parish. Only he left its management to us boys. Those older than us would take it over, never letting us touch it. They were all Juventus fans. In reaction, we started rooting for Turin….”

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