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It’s the ninetieth, we lose 3-2. Punishment for us, I decide to go to the Italian area. The cross arrives and I see that the ball comes towards me. I hit him really well, in the center of the forehead, hard, towards Zoff’s door. For us and goals, the torcida jumps up, and done. But I see the Italians screaming and protesting, then Zoff emerges from the ground with the ball in his hand screaming “No! No!” , referee Klein agrees. It wasn’t a goal, I admit, the ball stayed on the line. Five centimeters further, just five, and we would have drawn and our generation would have had a different life. Instead she was defeated: not just that day, but forever. In Brazil, even today, we are the ones who have lost. Zoff said that this had been the parade of his life. Conversely, it would have been the goal of my life. Five centimeters,
Everything would really change. To say it and Oscar in an interview more than 20 years after that memorable match. He was the central defender of Brazil in the Spain ’82 edition, the one who had to win the World Cup, but at the Sarria stadium in Barcelona he found himself on his way Di lui Paolo “Pablito” Rossi and the portcullis of Dino Zoff .
In Brazil the players of that national team will be eternally losers, anti-heroes to be removed from memories , a mocking fate and contrary to the fate of the Azzurri rivals who, on the other side of the globe, in a small boot-shaped country, are still eternal heroes. .
On that sultry summer afternoon of July 5th in Barcelona, among trumpets, confetti and choirs, we held our breath. Italy, mistreated on the eve of the betting scandal and after a not exciting first round, must beat Brazil to access the semifinal. After having found herself in a truly fiery group of three, together with Maradona’s Argentina, the challenge to the futbol masters is really difficult , bordering on the impossible. For the verdeoro, with the goal difference in favor, a draw is enough.
Italy – Brazil and a whirlwind of emotions: Rossi opens, Socrates responds immediately, Rossi again for the brace, Falcao puts the match back in balance, but Pablito doesn’t fit in and signs the hat-trick. The Juventus center forward comes out and stabs the distracted rear guard who is helpless, he doesn’t know how to deal with him. But in this succession of emotions and worries , Brazil’s third goal is expected.
And the opportunity comes at minute 89 with Oscar’s header and Zoff’s cat parade. Dino will say he spent 4-5 seconds terrible because after the save the opponents cheered, he did not see the referee and there was a risk that he had validated the goal.
But that save, that instinctive flicker on the line, and the seal of a formidable careerfor the goalkeeper born in Mariano del Friuli on February 28, 1942. At 40, with the captain’s armband on his arm , he experienced a World Cup as a protagonist: he still has an unbeaten record, being the oldest player to win a world cup with its 40 years and 134 days .
A relationship with the national team lived with dignity and professionalism from the debut in the victory against Bulgaria, on April 20, 1968, to the alternation between the posts with Enrico Albertosi up to the world record of unbeatenness still firm today, conquered between 1972 and 1974 with 1,143 minutes without conceding . [/ vc_column_text] [/ vc_column] [/ vc_row]
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And then the cup carried in triumph, firmly held in the hand by Zoff, the exultation of the President of the Republic, Sandro Pertini , the three-time “World Champions” exclaimed by Nando Martellini and the memorable “cartata” on the return plane between Pertini, Causio, Zoff and the coach Bearzot with a pipe in his mouth and the sparkle of the cup next to them.
In the titanic enterprise of enclosing an existence in a single snapshot, well, perhaps the career of Dino Zoff and all there, in that parade to the last breath between joy and despair . After all, his autobiographical book published in 2014 is entitled: “It lasts a moment, the glory”.
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