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Jet - N° 24 - 23.03.1967
When José Germano was transferred to AC Milan from Flamengo in the summer of 1962 at the age of 20, he became the first ever black player to play for the Italian club. Despite a very successful start (3 goals in 5 games), he was soon loaned out to Genoa in November 1962, where he spent the rest of that season with 12 games and 2 goals for the Genoese club.
After a stint with Palmeiras he turned out for Standard de Liège in Belgium where he would play 21 games and score two goals between 1966 and 1968.
But he he is almost as well-known for his stormy love-affair with Countess Giovanna Agusta.
America’s leading Afro-American magazine with a cover feature on the impossible love-story of a rich Italian countess and a Black Brazilian soccer international who eventually got wed in the Belgian city of Liège where Germano played fr Standard. Interracial couples and weddings were not really done in the USA of the sixties.
15 x 11 cms, magazine, 66 pages.
1967
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