Bearzot’s Blues of ’82 in numbers

You know who struck a adidas Tango into Spanish nets some-more than any other actor in a summer of ’62, right? You remember how many stars that put on a Azzurri jersey, yeah? There are, however, some reduction celebrated, some-more spellbinding stats behind Italy’s conquering of a 12th FIFA World Cup™, and FIFA.com has them for you. Tre, due, uno…

40 minutes: that is how prolonged Enzo Bearzot spent inside under-intense-pressure striker Paolo Rossi’s hotel room on a eve of a diversion opposite Brazil… deliberating cubist and surrealist painters! ‘The Old Man’ knew a bit about Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali and a like, though had to ask a member of his backroom staff for some additional info in sequence to reason a deeper review with a art left-wing in an try to relax his nerves. It worked. Rossi embellished Barcelona blue.

30 seconds: that is how prolonged Giancarlo Antognoni’s heart stopped violence after a pale collision in Nov 1981. A drifting knee from Genoa goalkeeper Silvano Martina incidentally crushed into a Fiorentina No10’s face. Genoa captain Claudio Onofri screamed “he’s dead, he’s dead”, though a untwisting of his tongue and mouth-to-mouth resuscitated Antognoni’s pulse. Despite fracturing his skull in dual places, a midfielder miraculously recovered and supposing 3 assists in 6 appearances during Spain 1982 – a figure surpassed usually by Zico and Pierre Littbarski.

25 matches though better is what Brazil were zodiacally approaching to wander on to opposite Italy. They had final mislaid 2-1 to Uruguay in Montevideo in Jan 1981 – and they’d been though Falcao and Zico. Thereafter, A Seleção had won all 7 of their appearances in Europe, including violence England in London, France in Paris, and West Germany in Stuttgart.

23 fouls is a towering series Claudio Gentile committed on Argentina dangerman Diego Maradona. When questioned about his earthy proceed post-match, a Libya-born defender declared: “Football is not for ballerinas.”

21 years and 10 months was a huge age disproportion between 18-year-old Giuseppe Bergomi and 40-year-old Dino Zoff, a second-youngest and oldest players to have played in a World Cup Final. The next-biggest disproportion between starters from a World Cup Final-winning side was a 15 years and 5 months between Pele and Nilton Santos in a 1962 decider. There was usually 4 years and 5 months between France’s youngest and oldest starters – Zinedine Zidane and Frank Leboeuf – in 1998.

14 hours and 56 minutes: that was a general idea drought Paolo Rossi was on until he pennyless a deadlock in a blockbuster opposite Brazil. The Tuscan had final scored for Italy in a 4-1 detriment to Yugoslavia over 3 years earlier. Rossi’s opener was also his initial in 9 hours and 27 mins of World Cup action, carrying unsuccessful to measure in his final 257 mins in Argentina and taken 5 matches to mangle his steep in Spain.

7 players went new by Bearzot – Franco Baresi, Ivano Bordon, Giuseppe Dossena, Giovanni Galli, Daniele Massaro, Franco Selvaggi and Pietro Vierchowod – a record for a World Cup-winning patrol given substitutes were introduced in 1970. Furthermore, usually 13 players started for Italy in Spain – a second-lowest from a tournament’s champions. Brazil utilized usually 12 players in 1962, though they played usually 6 matches. By contrast, all though dual members of France’s patrol – haven goalkeepers Lionel Charbonnier and Bernard Lama – done their starting XI during a 1998 tournament.

6 Juventus players began during a Bernabeu – Zoff, Scirea, Gentile, Cabrini, Tardelli and Rossi – equalling a record for many players in a jubilant team’s starting XI in a Final. Sepp Maier, Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck, Franz Beckenbauer, Paul Breitner, Uli Hoeness and Gerd Muller – all of Bayern Munich – started for West Germany in a 1974 decider. Later, 6 Barcelona and 6 Bayern players done a particular starting line-ups for Spain in a 2010 Final and Germany in a 2014 one.

4 – that is a position Marco Tardelli’s historic, hysteric roar opposite West Germany came in a BBC check to find a 100 biggest World Cup moments. The next-highest idea jubilee – Bebeto’s iconic baby-cradle in 1994 – came approach behind in 49th.

3 of a tip ten: that is what Italy’s World Cup Final-winning XI had in The Times newspaper’s 50 Greatest Hard Men compilation. Gentile, Bergomi and Tardelli came eighth, ninth and tenth respectively – forward of a likes of Roy Keane, Antonio Rattin and Graeme Souness – on a list surfaced by ‘The Butcher of Bilbao’, Andoni Goikoetxea.

3 goals in a diversion opposite Brazil is what Paolo Rossi became only a ninth actor to score. It took another 30 years for Lionel Messi to turn a tenth. Only Rossi and Ernst Willimowski, who strike 4 goals for Poland in a 6-5 detriment to Brazil in 1938, have achieved a attainment in a World Cup.

2 of a 4 Italians who done a Panini World Cup album, that was finalised only before a squads were, unsuccessful to cranky a Mediterranean Sea. Roberto Pruzzo, uninformed from winning back-to-back Capocannonieri, was surprisingly left out in foster of Daniele Massaro, who had only one Serie A idea to his name. Bearzot behind fixing his patrol in sequence to give Roberto Bettega each possibility to lapse from a knee-ligament injury, though eventually had to concur better and name Franco Selvaggi, who managed only 8 goals in 1981/82 for almost-relegated Cagliari, in his place.

0 matches is what La Nazionale won in Group 1 – each other World Cup-winning side has won during slightest dual of their opening 3 games. Italy drew all 3 games, as did Cameroon, though progressed on goals scored after handling one some-more than their rivals. Not one of a other 5 sides to have modernized from a initial proviso though tasting feat – Bulgaria and Uruguay in 1986, a Netherlands and Republic of Ireland in 1990, and Chile in 1998 – went on to win a knockout-stage match.

Article source: http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/y=2017/m=7/news=bearzot-s-blues-of-82-in-numbers-2901324.html