L’Antonio Cassano who turns forty today, looking back and retrieving the films of when he was twenty and inventing worlds that weren’t there with the ball, would make a face of his own – a grimace, a crooked mouth, a restrained smile, eyes shelled – and would say: “My goodness, how strong I was.” She […]
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The European football championships and Berrettini at Wimbledon: a year ago the glory day of Italy
A year ago, a lifetime ago. Brothers of Italy, everyone and regardless: glory-day. Let’s rewind the film: on July 11, 2021 Italy of sport experienced one of its most incredible days, it seemed like a new beginning, after the lockdown and after the pandemic had changed the world. The summer of our hopes. Nevertheless. Everything […]
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 […]
Marco Tardelli, World wide shout: «A few hours of sleep. And a missing shirt “
A dry shot, with the left foot, that is stuffed into the low corner. And then the race at breakneck speed towards the half court, chased by his teammates, waving frantically arms and head. “Goal,” he shouts over and over Marco Tardelli, with eyes shining with happiness. A scream that has remained in history, and […]
What the blue heroes of the 1982 World Cup do today
More than someone comments on football on TV, one is a financial broker, another a year ago raised a cup while confetti was raining from the sky, one sees little and spends time in front of the sea, another wears colorful and unlikely jackets, two of them are no longer there, they left too soon, […]
European football championships, it’s up to women: dates, times, TV (and a song)
One year later the men in Europe and one step away from qualifying for the World where instead the men’s team. As soon as women become professionals, they play European football championships in England. The final, on July 31st, will be played at Wembley where on July 11th a year ago Mancini’s Azzurri won the […]
Italy-Brazil, the best match ever told to a millennial
Dear Millennials, try to explain why Italy-Brazil was the most beautiful match of our life in the history of Italian football, it means going back forty years, recovering the magical age of childhood-adolescence and stopping at the summer of 1982. The result of that challenge, 3-2 for Italy, you can find it everywhere, googling or […]
They don’t take us anymore. 40 years from Mundial’82, told with stickers
Sandro Pertinistanding at the third goal, shouting: “They don’t catch us anymore”. The President of the Republic was there to assist theJuly 11, 1982 at the final of the world championship that Italy was world champion for the third time, over forty years after the previous two in 1934 and 1938. The Museum of Figurine […]
The two lives, the family, the future as a coach of France: the 50th anniversary of star Zidane
In these hours he is saying around that he has “The flame that burns inside him”, therefore he will train again – there is France waiting for him after the World Cup in Qatar – and who are not proud of the header he gave to Materazzi and which brought down the curtain on his […]
Willy Gnonto, from national to high school: “I was more relaxed against Germany”
Talking about Maturity and footballers comes to mind the bad case of a few years ago. Gigio Donnarumma he took the exam a year late, choosing to go to the Balearics. He didn’t do the same Willy Gnonto. Born in 2003, from Verbania, he made his debut with the Azzurri in the second half of […]