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R.I.P Serge Silvagni 😢
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RIP Serge.
My old Man loved the way you played, and his Passion for Carlton and you was handed Down from him to me.
My old Man loved the way you played, and his Passion for Carlton and you was handed Down from him to me.
My first memory of Serge was in 1968 and dad taking me to the footy for the first time I was six years old and dad took a tomato box for me to stand on whilst he held me as I balanced on it - we stood in front of the Heatley Stand near the players race and I can remember these giant men in Navy Blue running down that race Sergio Silvagni amongst them, from that day on it’s been Navy Blue for me all the way, just as it was for my father when he saw his first game in 1951 having landed in Melbourne and living a stones throw from Princes Park and just as it is for my son.
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My memories also go back to 68 when I was the same age as you. You must have been more upmarket as there was no tomato box for us to stand on, I had to wait for enough of the 750 ml steel cans of beer to be consumed so that I could stand on them get a better look at the game. When we signed Steven my father remarked that if he is half as good as his old man then we will have great player on his hands. It is a shame that footage from that era is so limited.
May the family name continue to thrive at Carlton.
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The reason I support Carlton, or at least the initial impetus to do so was my father. He was a northern Italian and my mother comes from a town not too far from the Silvagni's. I was born and lived in Carlton as a child. Walking to the ground and watching people emerge from every cross street growing thicker as the ground came into sight is something that excited me, my tribe, my people, my colours.
I first watched football at Princes Park from the outer forward pocket near the Olympic Tyres scoreboard. My father would mangle his words and be called hateful names by opposition supporters. I would cringe but this was the mid 70's and Carlton was about to get on a run between 1979 -1982. I wanted to be behind the goals at the Heatley stand end but my father had his crew in the same spot and that was that.
I never saw Sergio play and only just caught Nicholls but definitely remember Jesaulenko, Southby, Doull, Walls, McKay, Pinnell, Ashman, Keogh, Harmes, Glascott, Austin, Buckley etc. I was half a generation behind the Silvagni patriach. I clearly remember SOS first game, now we watch HIS son.
I was deeply saddened to hear about Sergio's passing. It triggered many memories of Princes Park. My Carlton was not that of Menzies, Fraser or Kenneth Luke it was more ethnic and working class, Silvagni was one of mine. As was Bortolotto, Marchesani, Catoggio but to name a few. I enjoyed the emerging synergy between an old suburb and its new sons.
All things end but how glad am I that his legacy lives through his son and grandsons. Go Blues.
R.I.P Sergio.
I first watched football at Princes Park from the outer forward pocket near the Olympic Tyres scoreboard. My father would mangle his words and be called hateful names by opposition supporters. I would cringe but this was the mid 70's and Carlton was about to get on a run between 1979 -1982. I wanted to be behind the goals at the Heatley stand end but my father had his crew in the same spot and that was that.
I never saw Sergio play and only just caught Nicholls but definitely remember Jesaulenko, Southby, Doull, Walls, McKay, Pinnell, Ashman, Keogh, Harmes, Glascott, Austin, Buckley etc. I was half a generation behind the Silvagni patriach. I clearly remember SOS first game, now we watch HIS son.
I was deeply saddened to hear about Sergio's passing. It triggered many memories of Princes Park. My Carlton was not that of Menzies, Fraser or Kenneth Luke it was more ethnic and working class, Silvagni was one of mine. As was Bortolotto, Marchesani, Catoggio but to name a few. I enjoyed the emerging synergy between an old suburb and its new sons.
All things end but how glad am I that his legacy lives through his son and grandsons. Go Blues.
R.I.P Sergio.
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Bit shocked to hear the news today. What a Carlton legend. Obviously never saw him play but was always in the coaches box with David parkin in our good times in the 90s. Part of one of the greatest family dynasties in footy and massive part of the club. The great thing about great footy clubs is he won't be forgotten.
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Same, didn’t get see Sergio play but my older brothers did (both Fitzroy supporters) and had a lot of respect for his toughness and skill.
We lived in Fitzroy in the 50’s and 60’s and it was an era where being European migrants trying to assimilate wasn’t easy.
Guys like Serg (and Jezza) were like heroes to a lot of these migrants and first generation Australians and helped make that transition easier. Their legacy will go on.
R.I.P. Serg. #1
