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The former Italian star passed away this Thursday at the age of 64.
The president of the Italian Football Federation, Gabriele Gravina, said this Thursday that, with the death of former player Paulo Rossi, Italy “loses a friend and an icon” of the sport, which in 1982 “made the parents.”
“Rossi is a true legend of Italian football, who in the summer of 1982 made an entire country cry with joy,” said Gravina, considering that the death of the former footballer “opens a wound difficult to heal in the hearts of all fans “.
On social media, several of Rossi’s former teammates, who in 1982 became world champion, commented on the death of the 64-year-old former striker, who died on Wednesday of lung cancer.
“I’m sorry. I’ve always had a good relationship with Paolo, he was kind and smart. We haven’t talked for a long time, I knew something was wrong with him, but I never thought it was so serious,” the former goalkeeper wrote. Italian international Dino Zoff.
Former striker Bruno Conti said 2020 is “a cursed year” and left a message for Paolo Rossi: “You took us to the top of the world. Goodbye friend.”
“I’m here talking to friends in the chat, a part of us is gone. A part of my life has disappeared,” wrote former defender Fluvio Collovati.
Giovanni Trapattoni, who coached Paolo Rossi at Juventus, left a message to the former striker: “Goodbye, Paolo. The players must not leave before the coaches.”
UEFA has decided to honor the former footballer by complying with a minute’s silence before the Europa League matches start today.
Paolo Rossi became a football legend on July 5, 1982, when at the Sarrià Stadium in Barcelona he scored a hat-trick against a fantastic Brazilian team, defeating him 3-2 and eliminating him from the 1982 World Cup.
The then Juventus forward, whose choice to join the “eleven” was highly contested, as was the call for the World Cup itself, after being suspended for two years for a gambling case, known as Totonero, set out for an unforgettable final test.
Rossi scored two goals in the semifinals, beating Poland 2-0, and then scored Italy’s first goal in the final with the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), which the “azzurri squad” beat 3-1 to win. his scepter of the third world.
His performances at the World Cup earned him the Golden Boot, a trophy from the French magazine France Football, which was then reserved for footballers from the “old continent”.
For Italy, which he represented between 1977 and 1986, he had already been present at the 1978 World Cup in Argentina, where Transalpina finished in fourth position, with Rossi also as the team’s top scorer, with three goals.
In one of the 48 games for Italy, Rossi once crossed with the Portuguese team, for which he scored a goal, in a private match on April 3, 1985. In Ascoli, he took a penalty, in the 77th minute, which put the 2-0. Final.
In his career at club level, we highlight the many titles he won with Juventus, namely a Champions Cup (1984/85), a Recopa (1983/84), at the expense of FC Porto, defeated in the final of Basel 2-1 and European Super Cup in 1984.
In Italy, he won two championships and an Italian Cup, being the top scorer in Serie A in 1977/78, with 24 goals, one season after being the top scorer in Serie B with 21, helping Lanerossi Vicenza win. . the competition.
Throughout his career, the former striker played in training with Santa Lucía, Ambrosiana, Cattolica Virtus and Juventus, and it was also in the Turin team that he made his senior debut in the 1973/74 season.
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