Professional Footballer. He gained fame for hold the position of striker for several popular Italian football teams. He was born as Revelli Ruggero Grava in Claut, Italy, and then moved to France at the age of one. He was educated locally, and following his education, he worked as an apprentice mechanic before turning to a career in sports. He began his interests in sports as a young adult playing in his youth for the French football clubs AS Roma Paris and AS Meudon during the 1930s. He then played the position of striker professionally for the Football Club Amiens AC (aka Amiens Sporting Club), of Amiens, France, from 1942 to 1943, EF Nancy-Lorraine (aka Équipe Fédérale Nancy-Lorraine), in 1943, EF Bordeaux-Guyenne (aka Équipe fédérale Bordeaux-Guyenne), from 1943 to 1944, FC Girondins de Bordeaux (aka Football Club des Girondins de Bordeaux), and the CO Roubaix-Tourcoing (Club Olympique de Roubaix-Tourcoing), of Roubaix, France, from 1944 to 1945, and 1946 to 1947, in which he made 84 League Appearances and 30 League Goals. He then moved back to Italy along with fellow Frenchman also born of Italian descent Émile Bongiorni of the football club RC Paris (aka Racing Club de France Football), of Colombes, France, and joined the Football Club Torino (aka Torino Football Club or Torino F.C.), of Torino, Italy, from 1945 to 1948, but he only appeared in one League Appearance. He also played in the Serie A with the Italian National Football Team from 1948 to 1949. He was killed in the Superga Air Disaster on May 4, 1949, when the teams Avio Linee Italiane Fiat G.212 plane took off of from Lisbon, Portugal, and crashed into the retaining wall at the back of the Basilica of Superga which stands on a hill on the outskirts of Turin, Italy, along with most of the Grande Torino team including Valerio Bacigalupo, Aldo Ballarin, Dino Ballarin, Émile Bongiorni, Eusebio Castigliano, Rubens Fadini, Guglielmo Gabetto, Giuseppe Grezar, Ezio Loik, Virgilio Maroso, Danilo Martelli, Valentino Mazzola, Romeo Menti, Piero Operto, Franco Ossola, Mario Rigamonti, and Július Schubert, which also formed a large part of the Italian National Football Team at the time, which was scheduled to take part at the 1950 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Also killed were members of the coaching staff, club officials, journalists, and flight crew including, Ottavio Corina, massage therapist, Egri Erbstein, manager, Leslie Lievesley, coach, Arnaldo Agnisetta, general manager, Andrea Bonaiuti, travel organizer, Ippolito Civalleri, travel escort, Renato Casalbore, journalist, Luigi Cavallero, journalist, Renato Tosatti, journalist, Cesare Biancardi, co-pilot, Celestino D'Inca, engineer, Pierluigi Meroni, pilot, and Antonio Pangrazi, radio operator. The aerial accident was later found to be caused by controlled flight into terrain due to low visibility. The crash is commemorated annually and remains of the aircraft including a propeller, a tire, scattered pieces of the fuselage, and the personal bags of Valentino Mazzola, Virgilio Maroso, and Egri Erbstein, are preserved in a museum in Grugliasco near Turin, Italy. The Museo del Grande Torino e della Leggenda Granata, located in the prestigious Villa Claretta Assandri of Grugliasco, was opened on May 4, 2008, the anniversary of the tragedy. His name is inscribed on the memorial plaque on the Basilica of Superga, near Turin, Italy, which is dedicated to those who died.