"I'm talking to you about a time that people under 40 can't know..."
Charles Aznavour is no more, but the furtive diversion of a song that has become legendary testifies to the nostalgia and melancholy that emanates from this Thursday, July 8, 1982, the date of the famous “night of Seville”.
It was already forty years ago that the Germans and the French, at the end of a semi-final of the legendary World Cup (3-3, 5 shots on goal to 4), battled for more than one hundred and twenty minutes to offer a summary of what an entire life can offer you.
Joy, anger, sadness, fullness, resentment, injustice...
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All the possible and imaginable feelings were felt that evening in Andalusia between the aggression of Harald Schumacher on Patrick Battiston evacuated on a stretcher, the crossbar of Manuel Amoros at the very end of the match, the volley of Marius Trésor (1-2) in extra time, the goal of an Alain Giresse in a trance (1-3), the reduction of the score of the hope of Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (2-3), then…
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