Paolo Rossi died, the reactions

As soon as they wake up, much of Italy discovers news they never wanted to know: Paolo Rossi is gone. Radio Rai immediately publishes the audio of Enrico Ameri’s commentary on the 1982 world victory.

The reactions

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“When I came to Italy after the 1982 World Cup (Torino bought it in 1984, ed”) I was playing for Juventus. We saw each other often because we frequented the same restaurants, he was always kind and polite ”: that is the memory, to the microphones of Tv Globo, of Junior who remembered Pablito during the interval of the San Paolo-Botafogo match. The former player was on the field in 1982 when Rossi scored the great Brazil with three goals. “Despite everything he did against our Seleçao, he never said a word out of place. I respected him a lot, but all the people had great respect for Paolo ”, concluded Junior. Sadness in the words of Fulvio Collovati, who was also world champion with Italy in 1982: “My colleagues from 1982 keep writing to me in the chat … a part of us is gone. A part of my life is leaving ”. He destroyed Antonio Cabrini, another column from that team: “Six months ago I lost a brother, today I mourn another. I don’t want to say anything else, this is not the time to talk. Dino Zoff, hero of that historic World Cup: “I’m very sorry. I don’t know what to say, it was lightning out of nowhere. We have always had a great relationship with Paolo, nice, intelligent, we had not listened to each other for a long time, they had said something to us but it did not seem so serious. Relations with him were wonderful, he was very kind. Smart, he had everything to be good. Something difficult to understand. ”

Venditti and the “Rossi boy like us”

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“Paolo Rossi … was a boy like us”, and a red heart next to him drawn with an emoticon: Antonello Venditti on his Facebook profile, pays tribute to him on the saddest day. The Roman singer-songwriter dedicated to Rossi a verse from his famous song “Giulio Cesare”, published in 1986 and sung by generations of that period. “We were thirty-four years old, now we’re gone, and you’re sitting on this bench. It was the year of the 1986 World Cup, Paolo Rossi was a boy like us ”. The text, dedicated to nostalgia and the time spent changing habits and fashions, but always leaving a deep discomfort, refers, in those verses, to the 1986 World Cup in Mexico where Italy was strong from the trophy won in Spain in 1982. , but it was removed.

I club

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“Sometimes there are simply no words to express the pain that we are all experiencing. Hello Paolo »: this is the tweet from Vicenza, the team in which Rossi played from 1976 to 1979, years that allowed him to make himself known at a high level. Lazio expresses “its deepest condolences for the death of Paolo Rossi and joins the family’s pain.” Fiorentina “mourns the hero of the ’82 World Cup. Toscano, born in Prato, Rossi was an unforgettable protagonist in the Bearzot selection of the World Cup won in Spain ”.

Nardella, Gentiloni and Renzi

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Florence Mayor Nardella recalls Rossi’s Florentine past: “We have been left with the hero of the Spain of 1982 who grew up as a young footballer in Florence, in the fields of Soffiano, at the Cattolica Virtus. We will never forget the joys of that World Cup. Thanks Pablito, a big hug for Federica and the boys ”. The condolences of former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni. Among the players, one of the first to get sad is the former Cagliari and Atalanta striker Mauricio Pinilla, who is in his Chile: “RIP Rossi”