With the outbreak of war in 1939 , Lievesley joined the RAF , where he became a parachute trainer and dispatch officer . Following the war he became a coach in the Netherlands at Heracles Almelo , then in 1947 , after turning down an offer from Marseille in France , transferred to Italian club Torino as youth team coach . He coached the Italian national team at the 1948 summer Olympics and became first-team coach at Torino that year . In 1949 he had been offered a contract to coach rival team Juventus , when on 4 May he was one of 31 fatalities in the Superga air disaster that killed almost the entire Torino squad , when they were in the process of winning the Serie A title . He had previously survived two air crashes in the war and one in 1948 when travelling with the Torino youth team
Superga air disaster
Superga air disaster
Leslie Lievesley