1982 World Cup, Antonio Cabrini: “That victory was the redemption of a country”

You can become a champion even if everything seems to be against. This teaches the 1982 World Cup won by Italy, this is what he says The journey of the heroesa documentary by director Manlio Castagna that tells the story of the Italian team that won the 1982 World Cup in Spain and that, after being at the cinema, goes to prime time today on Rai Uno.

The journey of the heroes makes eleven stages narrated by the voice of Marco Giallini and introduced by the animations of Roberto Recchioni. The journey did not seem predestined for victory, as it always does for heroes, and instead ends in triumph.

There are images, even unedited ones, repertory interviews, commentaries and commentaries to take a dip in the past. It goes from the uphill group to the turning point in the next phase. There is the Argentina of a young Diego Maradona. “That match was the key to the championship,” says Fulvio Collovati. Then the wonder with the Brazil of Zico and Falcão and the three goals of Paolo Rossi. And it ends as we all know. From the Brancabearzot Army you get to “World champions” shouted three times by Nando Martellini.

Presenting it, Antonio Cabrini, defender of that Italy, he says. “The World Cup won in 1982 was the redemption of a country that was going through a very delicate moment”. It was a social question rather than a sporting one, of history and politics, of economics and justice.

The 1982 World Cup also goes to the cinema. In the hall on 11, 12 and 13 July Italy 1982 – A Blue Historydocumentary film to celebrate the forty years since the historic final with the testimonies of the protagonists of the National team and journalists of the time and retraces moments that have remained in the collective memory of our country.

There are Marco Tardelli, Bruno Conti, Claudio Gentile, Fulvio Collovati, Dino Zoff, Giancarlo Antognoni, Franco Selvaggi, Giuseppe Dossena, Giuseppe Bergomi and the daughter of the coach Cinzia Bearzot. They remember the final, the victory and the card game with President Sandro Pertini on the return flight to Italybut also all the controversies that had existed before and a painting, with period images of that Italy, in an economic, social and political crisis between terrorism, mafia, drugs and unemployment because the terrible seventies really ended with a I scream in the Madrid night of 11 July 1982.

For those wishing to experience the atmosphere of that night in person, the Football Federation has decided to exhibit the trophy won by the Azzurri national team. in the portico of via Gregorio Allegri, in Rome, seat of the Federation. Today from 9 to 18.

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