Paulo Rossi

corner of hells

Gone to join Diego this morning.

Have a look at Italy v Germany in 1982.

Edit:

Adding link
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/55248469

Hamsterchops

Only 64, what happened?

Gregor Samsa

I remember being very excited getting him in my World Cup ‘82 Panini sticker collection. 64 is way too young. RIP.

Raytown Rocks

Just FYI its Paolo,
Not trying to be the spelling police either , just a heads up

Zaph

corner of hells wrote: »

Gone to join Diego this morning.

Have a look at Italy v Germany in 1982.

Surely the QF match against Brazil was his most iconic? To this day I still can't understand how Brazil lost. He was some player, definitely gone before his time. RIP

Kylta

May he RIP

corner of hells

Zaph wrote: »

Surely the QF match against Brazil was his most iconic? To this day I still can't understand how Brazil lost. He was some player, definitely gone before his time. RIP

Of course , but the images of himself,Altobelli and Tardelli scoring were amazing. Hope my spellings are correct.

corner of hells

chef wrote: »

Just FYI its Paolo,
Not trying to be the spelling police either , just a heads up

Thanks for the heads up .

Mad_maxx

was it tax evasion or Mafia links he was up to his neck in ?

pretty standard stuff for a successful italian of course

Zaph

Mad_maxx wrote: »

was it tax evasion or Mafia links he was up to his neck in ?

pretty standard stuff for a successful italian of course

Match fixing linked to betting, so no doubt the Mafia were involved somewhere along the line.

normanoffside

Hamsterchops wrote: »

Only 64, what happened?

Lung Cancer

ShatterAlan

Zaph wrote: »

Surely the QF match against Brazil was his most iconic? To this day I still can't understand how Brazil lost. He was some player, definitely gone before his time. RIP

There wasn't a Quarter Finals in the 1982 World Cup. It went straight to Semi finals knockout from a second group stage of 4 groups of 3. It was a crappy format that nobody liked.


I guess technically you could call the 4 groups of 3 the quarter finals but they weren't really. A quarter finals is 8 teams whittled down to 4 for semis. This was 12 teams being whittled down to 4.

Edgware

Zaph wrote: »

Surely the QF match against Brazil was his most iconic? To this day I still can't understand how Brazil lost. He was some player, definitely gone before his time. RIP

The main reason Brazil lost is that Italy scored more goals.

Edgware

Zaph wrote: »

Match fixing linked to betting, so no doubt the Mafia were involved somewhere along the line.

Thats a terrible stereotyping of a hardworking family organisation