Tancredi Fassini | |
Career Start: | 1923 |
Career End: | 1924 |
Birth Date: | 27 December 1900 |
Birth Place: | Turin, Kingdom of Italy |
Death Place: | Fascist Italy |
Position: | Defense |
Played For: | Torino [CP] |
Ntl Team: | Italy |
Tancredi Fassini-Camossi (27 December 1900 – 4 September 1943) was an Italian professional ice hockey defense who played for the Italian national team.[1] [2]
Fassini served as an engineer and pilot in the Regia Aeronautica during the Second World War. On 4 September 1943, after hearing about the death of his mother at Pisa in an Allied bombing raid 5 days earlier, Fassini took off in a stolen aircraft to fly to Pisa. During the flight, he crashed and was killed.