Émile Bongiorni | |
Birth Date: | 19 March 1921 |
Birth Place: | Boulogne-Billancourt, France |
Death Place: | Superga, Torino, Italy |
Position: | Striker |
Years1: | 1938–1939 |
Years2: | 1944–1948 |
Years3: | 1948–1949 |
Clubs3: | Torino F.C. |
Caps1: | 37 |
Goals1: | 18 |
Caps2: | 89 |
Goals2: | 43 |
Caps3: | 8 |
Goals3: | 2 |
Nationalyears1: | 1945–1948 |
Nationalteam1: | France |
Nationalcaps1: | 5 |
Nationalgoals1: | 2 |
Émile Bongiorni (19 March 1921 – 4 May 1949) was a French association football striker of Italian descent.
He played for RC Paris where he was capped 5 times for France. In 1948, he moved to Torino F.C., with another Frenchman of Italian descent, Roger Grava of CO Roubaix-Tourcoing.[1] They both died in the Superga air disaster on 4 May 1949.