'1982 round trip' on SkyTg24 the special for the 40th anniversary of the World Cup in Spain

July 11, 1982. Italy is World Champion.

The triumph of Enzo Bearzot's national team in Spain marks an epochal and indelible moment in the memory of the Italians.

A legendary sporting feat that led an entire nation to look to the future with optimism and a desire for rebirth.

An era in layers: these are years of transformation and modernization, of political changes, social and aesthetic mutations, after the Years of Lead and sad news events such as the Ustica plane crash and the Vermicino tragedy.

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That sporting victory was a symbolic event of the country's change of direction.

Forty years later Sky TG24 takes a journey through time, with the 1982 special ANDATA E RITORNO, to the Italy of those years.

And it does so right on board that plane that brought the President of the Republic Sandro Pertini and the world champions back to Rome - around the table where the memorable card game was celebrated between the then Head of State, the Technical Commissioner Bearzot, the captain Dino Zoff and Franco Causio.

There the Director of Sky TG24 Giuseppe De Bellis meets Beppe Bergomi, world champion in 1982, the economist Carlo Cottarelli and the writer Giacomo Papi.

'1982 Round trip', Giuseppe De Bellis meets Beppe Bergomi, Carlo Cottarelli and Giacomo Papi aboard the Spanish World Cup plane

A conversation in which the sporting enterprise that characterized the start of a season of political, social and lifestyle renewal relives.

Years also marked by analogies on the economic level compared to the current context, from the increase in the price of raw materials to inflation, passing through the demographic decline and the heavy weight of public debt.

Bergomi and the 1982 World Cup: 'We always listened to Battiato'

Shot inside the Dc9 of the Air Force, in the Park and Museum of Flight in Volandia, the special, curated by the Sky TG24 journalist Fabio Vitale, is punctuated by period images and documents, anecdotes of the protagonists, contributions and unpublished testimonies .

The illustrations are taken from 11 July 1982, the book by Paolo Castaldi, a famous sports graphic journalist, published by Feltrinelli.

  A dedicated section on the skytg24.it website and a podcast taken from the special will be among the contents linked to this new original Sky TG24 production.

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 The 1982 special ROUND AND RETURN will be premiered on Saturday 9 July at 9pm on Sky TG24.

Furthermore, on Monday 11 July, Sky channel 202 will become Sky Sport Calcio - ITALIA MUNDIAL 1982-2022 with, throughout the day, a program dedicated to the celebration of the victory of Spain '82 and of the protagonists who made it so.

The appointment with 1982 ROUND AND RETURN in the rich schedule of Sky Sport, at 9.15 pm on Sky Sport Calcio and at 1.00 pm on Sky Sport Uno.

Also on Monday, the special will also be on Sky Documentaries and streaming on NOW and always available on Demand