Paolo Rossi died. “Pablito” was the hero of the world champion Italy in 1982

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Paolo Rossi, a former world champion footballer with Italy in 1982, died at the age of 64. In those World Championships in Spain he also won the title of top scorer. With Juventus de Trapattoni he won two championships and four cups. The news of his death was given overnight by his wife Federica Cappelletti on his Instagram profile. Rossi had been ill for years with a serious illness.

“Forever,” Cappelletti wrote, posting a photo of her with her husband on the social network. In the same minutes, the deputy director of RaiSport, Enrico Varriale, also gave an account of the disappearance of “Pablito”: “Very sad news, he left us” an unforgettable one “, which made us all fall in love in that summer of 1982 and valuable and competent coworker in recent years. “

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Born in Prato on September 23, 1956, Rossi also won the title of top scorer at the 1982 World Cup in Spain under the direction of coach Enzo Bearzot. Same year in which he won the Ballon d’Or. With Giovanni Trapattoni’s Juventus in the 1980s he won two league titles, an Italian Cup, a Recopa, a European Super Cup and the European Cup in 1985.

At the 1982 World Cup, after a silent start from the National Team and from Paolo Rossi himself, the attacker was released in the second part of the tournament, the theoretically prohibitive one for the Azzurri: the transition to the semifinals was in fact subject to overcoming from Argentina and Brazil. . A Brazil, above all, full of champions like Falcao, Zico, Eder, Socrates.

Pablito, on the other hand, began to score against Argentina, followed with the sensational hat-trick to Verdeoro, doubled Poland in the semifinals and started the game with the first goal against Germany in the final. In addition to the Cup, for Rossi six goals in total and the title of top scorer.