A common thread links the Spain '82 Mundial to the 'Italian Football Hall of Fame', which with the entry of Alessandro Altobelli welcomes another of the protagonists of that unforgettable World Cup.
From Bergomi to Cabrini, from Tardelli to Paolo Rossi, passing through Zoff, Antognoni, Oriali and Enzo Bearzot.
'Spillo' finds many teammates from the most exciting adventure of his career: "Receiving this award - begins the former Inter and national team striker - is a nice surprise and a great satisfaction. It's not for everyone to become part of the history of the "Italian football requires sacrifices and you need to be ready at crucial moments. I have to thank all my Inter teammates and all the great champions I've had the good fortune to play with on the national team."
In sixth place for the Azzurri top scorer of all time in the company of Adolfo Baloncieri and Filippo Inzaghi, of the 25 goals scored for the national team ("but in reality they are 28, in Mexico before the World Cup I scored a hat-trick against Guadalajara, only it wasn't considered an official match…") there is one that every Italian aged fifty and over cannot forget.
It's the third goal in the final against Germany, that of the definitive awareness that shortly thereafter Italy would have lifted its third World Cup to the sky.
And to think that Altobelli had started that game from the bench, then the injury to Graziani in the first minutes of the game catapulted him onto the Santiago Bernabeu field in an instant: "
I had also played about twenty minutes in the semifinal because Ciccio had hurt himself - he remembers - when I saw that in the final he fell to the ground and was holding his shoulder, I immediately took off my suit, I didn't even give Bearzot time to think .
I was looking for that goal, I was sure of my means and I was fit.
When I scored, I just thought that we had finished the game, that as Pertini said in the stands, they wouldn't take us anymore.
Only later, with a cool head, did I really realize what I had done, indeed what we had done".
that as Pertini said in the gallery by now they would no longer take us.
Only later, with a cool head, did I really realize what I had done, indeed what we had done".
that as Pertini said in the gallery by now they would no longer take us.
Only later, with a cool head, did I really realize what I had done, indeed what we had done".