Il Trio Magico

Golazzo: The Totally Italian Football Show

The Athletic

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In a backdrop of a boom in Italy, Juventus supplemented Giampero Boniperti in 1957 with forwards Omar Sivori and gentle giant John Charles, perhaps the most universally popular Juventus player ever. And one hell of a singer. RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: Why were this trio so iconic? (01m 00s) • PART 2: Agnelli acquires Charles and Sivori (05m 00s) • PART 3: Sivori – a proto-Maradona? (15m 00s) • PART 4a: Charles – Juve’s best ever foreign signing? (19m 00s) • PART 4b: The controversial last game together for the trio (32m 30s) • PART 4c: Boniperti returns as president (39m 00s) GET IN TOUCH: • follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/totallyfootballshow/) • find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/thetotallyfootballshow/) • send us a tweet: @TheTotallyShow (http://www.twitter.com/thetotallyshow) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Goladsoe is brought to you by FOT Mob, the essential app for your match day experience.
0:07.0	Get live scores, detailed match stats, notifications for every goal and breaking news from more than 200 leagues and cups around the world.
0:14.6	Download it for free on Android and iOS now by searching for FOT Mob. That's FOTMOB. Never miss a moment with FOT Mob.
0:25.0	Muddy news, media. Golatsaw.
0:37.0	Today, a story of how Yuvay became Yuvay, with the Truyon Magigu, the holy Trinity of John Charles,
0:48.3	Omar Savory, and Jampiero Boniperti, and how they made a generation grow up goby.
0:54.0	GOLASo!
1:00.0	And hello listener, it's the first of our remote galazos, but we have on the line, Gablelli Marcotti.
1:09.0	Hello! And also James Horncastle.
1:12.0	Present.
1:14.0	How nice.
1:15.0	Gab, a bit of a history lesson for us today.
1:18.0	Why are the Trio Magico so significant historically?
1:22.8	I think outside Italy there's no question that these three have been
1:28.8	overlooked which is kind of odd because C-Vody at the time was one of the brightest stars in
1:36.7	Argentina, one of the world's powerhouses. John Charles to this day when
1:40.6	people make you know the all-time British 11s and mix and match everybody
1:45.9	he's often in there either as a center forward or as a center half and the fact that these guys
1:50.8	came together you know at Juventus at that time with
1:55.0	Jampir a boni peri would be an absolute icon of the club. Not just, you know,
2:00.6	later on people of my generation remember him as a great president in the face of the club and whatever else
2:06.6	but of course prior to that he was one of the greatest Italian players of all time, you know, 178 goals over a 15 year career.
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