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Émile Bongiorni

French footballer (1921-1949)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ274940 ↗
Source-derived summary

Émile Bongiorni (19 March 1921 – 4 May 1949) was a French footballer who played as a striker

He played for RC Paris where he was capped five times for France. In 1948, he moved to Torino F.C., with another Frenchman of Italian descent, Roger Grava of CO Roubaix-Tourcoing. They both died in the Superga air disaster on 4 May 1949.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Émile Bongiorni” as french footballer (1921-1949). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1921, 1949, 1948—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1921-03-19. The account is most persuasive where Émile, Bongiorni and French can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as french footballer (1921-1949). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 5, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q274940. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1921, 1949 and 1948.

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This entry incorporates text from “Émile Bongiorni” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.