Giampiero Boniperti obituary

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Outstanding Italian footballer who was a golden boy at Juventus in the 1950s before becoming the club’s president for two decades

Giampiero Boniperti, who has died aged 92, was the leading man of Italian football in the 1950s. Blue-eyed with blond, curly hair, he was a precocious talent who was first capped for Italy at 19, appearing in the 1950 and 1954 World Cup campaigns and spending his whole playing career with Juventus of Turin, winning five league titles at the club. On retirement he became first a director of, and then, for two decades, the president of Juventus, a period during which still more honours were accumulated.

Boniperti was born in Barengo, north-west Italy, to Agabio, the town’s mayor, and his wife, Camilla, a teacher. After schooling at the De Filippi college in Arona, he played for a local club, Momo, as a centre-forward, joining Juventus in the 1946-47 season. He made his first, dramatic impact on their fans on a rainy afternoon in the club’s old Stadio Comunale, playing for Juventus reserves against a local team in a curtain raiser to a league game. “Boni”, then only 18, quickly scored, then scored again. Fast, incisive, elusive, he went on to bag seven goals in all. By the end of the year he was not only playing for the Juventus league team, but was an international.

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from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/jun/20/giampiero-boniperti-obituary

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