Aldo Agroppi, a stable Serie A midfielder through the Seventies and a veteran Torino participant for 9 seasons, handed away at 80 only a couple months in the past. Since we didn’t honor him as he deserved within the event, at the moment we take the possibility to recollect on of his exploits which gave Torino the W in a hard-fought Derby della Mole towards Juventus.
It occurred on the then Stadio Comunale in Turin, which used to host each soccer golf equipment of the town (it has now been restructured and renamed Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino to turn out to be the Granata‘s dwelling, whereas Juventus moved to their model new Allianz Stadium), on March 26, 1972.
If one seems to be again at calcio in Italy, the Seventies decade doesn’t come up as essentially the most spectacular. Sandwiched between a Nineteen Sixties age characterised by the legendary battle between Helenio Herrera’s Inter and Nereo Rocco’s Milan, and the wonderful Eighties which actually established the Serie A as the highest league on the planet, the Seventies are sometimes remembered as a uninteresting period with few targets and scarce feelings.
Nonetheless, the 1971/72 battle for the Scudetto is usually remembered as one of the crucial closely-contested ever in Serie A, involving Milan, each the Turinese golf equipment and, sooner or later, even Cagliari and Fiorentina. When Torino and Juventus squared off within the second derby of the season, the Bianconeri have been prime of the desk and the Granata trailed by three.
When Pietro Anastasi picked a Fabio Capello lengthy vary cross and beat Luciano Castellini with a fantastic left foot shot, it appeared that the trail in the direction of the title was clear for Juve. Nonetheless, Torino drew stability simply ten minutes later, courtesy of a scientific Claudio Sala free kick.
Aldo Agroppi then turned the hero of the day within the second half, when he pounced on a save from the Juventus goalkeeper to faucet the ball in and set the rating at 2-1. It was one of many only a few events when the Derby della Mole was a Scudetto six-pointer.
Torino’s story didn’t have a contented ending, although. Even when the Granata managed to seize the highest spot within the desk on Matchday 26, they misplaced to Milan within the following week. Juventus, alternatively, dismantled title-defender Inter and regained the lead, which they’d retain till the top to win their 14th Scudetto, the primary in 5 years.
