Ezio Loik
Ezio Loik (26 September 1919 – 4 May 1949) was an Italian football player, who played for Torino FC and died in the Superga air disaster together with the whole Grande Torino team.
Biography
Loik was born in Fiume (then part of Italy, current Rijeka, Croatia). He played as a midfielder, debuting for U.S. Fiumana aged 17 in the 1936-1937 serie C tournament. After three seasons in Serie A with AC Milan, he moved to Venezia, where he obtained a third place and a Coppa Italia in 1941. He moved to Torino in 1942, where he formed a midfield duo with Valentino Mazzola, also coming from Venezia.
With Torino, Loik won five consecutive Serie A scudetti and one further Coppa Italia (1942–1943), until dying with most of the team in the Superga air disaster near Turin, in May 1949. He was capped nine times for the Italian national team, scoring four goals.
