The Italian club launched its 2025/26 third shirt with details inspired by the Millionaire, in tribute to the bond that was born after the Superga tragedy.
He Torino Football Club He presented his new alternative shirt and it didn’t take long to arouse the excitement of River Plate fans. The third jersey for the 2025/26 season is a tribute to a friendship that was born from pain and transformed into brotherhoodthe one that unites the Italian team with the Núñez club for more than seven decades.
The launch was carried out with a strong symbolic load: the protagonist was Giovanni Simeoneformer River forward and current Torino figure. In the presentation video he is seen wearing the new jacket, interspersed with historical images of the 1949 friendly, when the Argentine team traveled to Italy after the Superga tragedy. On social media, the Turin club wrote: “We share the same blood, brother,” to which River responded with an emotional “Uniti per semper” (“United forever”).
Beyond the gesture, the design also speaks for itself. predominates anthracite graya color that refers to the alternative shirts that River used in different stages. The black diagonal bandcrossing the chest, is a clear allusion to the millionaire emblem, although adapted to the style of the Bull. On the back the shields of both clubs merge, accompanied by the legend “Eterna Amistad”. The red and maroon details complete a piece that unites history, respect and emotion.
The relationship between Torino and River Plate
The link between both clubs was born in 1949, after the Superga air tragedyin which 31 people died, including 18 players from the legendary “Grande Torino”, the team that dominated Italian football at the time. Upon learning of the accident, the then president of River, Antonio Vespucio Libertiorganized a trip to Turin with the figures of “La Maquina”—Di Stéfano, Labruna, Carrizo and Pipo Rossi, among others—to play a charity match whose proceeds went to the families of the victims.
That match, played on May 26, 1949 before almost 60,000 people, ended 2-2. But the result was the least important. What was recorded was the solidarity gesture of an Argentine club that crossed the Atlantic to accompany another in its worst moment. Since then, the relationship has been kept alive with mutual tributes: River wore maroon t-shirts in his honor, while Torino made a white one with a maroon band, in the image of Núñez’s team.
Decades later, both clubs consolidated their brotherhood in official museums and in different institutional visits. Every May 4, on the anniversary of the tragedy, River usually sends offerings or messages remembering Grande Torino.
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The new Torino shirt
The t-shirt presented this week was designed by Joma and is now available in the club’s official store. On the inside of the neck, a message remembers the friendship between both institutions. On the back, the two intertwined shields summarize a story that goes beyond football: a story of empathy, memory and mutual respect.
For many fans, this new jacket is more than a garment: it is a symbolic piece that unites generations. Some see it as a way to keep history alive; others, as a demonstration that football can still be a bridge between peoples. The truth is that Torino and River achieved something rare in modern sport: that a bond born of pain continues to be a source of pride and tribute almost eight decades later.
Source: Ambito
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