One of the best known pictures in the history of Italian football shows four men engaged in a game of cards on an airplane table. On extreme left corner...
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Italy’s déjà vu: How Azeglio Vicini’s Azzurri failed to qualify for Euro 92
Many among the 70,000 crowd gathered in the San Siro released an involuntary gasp as Spanish referee Antonio Lahoz blew a shrill, long note from his whistle. As the...
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Spain 1982: Enzo Bearzot and the birth of ‘Silenzio Stampa’
Few events are truly unprecedented in football, but what happened during Italy’s 1982 World Cup campaign in Spain was just that, and its legacy endures to this day. In...
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