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The Match is the tale of one of the most iconic games in World Cup history: Italy v Brazil at Spain '82. Piero Trellini delves into the stories of the great characters who lit up that unforgettable match - from Paolo Rossi to Socrates, from Enzo Bearzot to Zico - as well as some forgotten figures who all played their part. The book takes us on a fascinating journey through the 1982 Mundial, exploring the football scene of the day and dishing out fascinating anecdotes on the various historical and sporting links between the two countries. Italy, a nation historically at the forefront of football, did not arrive in Spain as favourites, with widespread doubts about their chances, even in the Italian press. This is one of the reasons why their triumph that summer is still celebrated in Italy above other historic victories by the Azzurri. Following that momentous win, Italy would become the favourite destination for Europe and South America's greatest players.

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Date de parution	27 février 2023
Nombre de lectures	3
EAN13	9781801505277
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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It is clearly the most beautiful football book that I have ever read.
Giacomo Pellizzari, la Repubblica
A thesis worthy of Scott Fitzgerald .
Giuseppe Culicchia, La Stampa
The Match by Piero Trellini is an exceptional undertaking.
(...) Books like this are no longer made. It s a super-novel. It has a setting of absolute originality.
Antonio D Orrico, La Lettura - Corriere della Sera
It is an ode to football, a poignant ode to the most beautiful game in the world. (...) a sum of wonderful stories, which keep you glued to the page
Walter Veltroni, La Gazzetta dello Sport
I had never read, on a single game, anything so complete and engaging. In its genre: a masterpiece.
Darwin Pastorin - Huffington Post
Have you read The Match ? Beautiful. Trellini has turned the carpet we all know upside down and shown the intricacies that make it up. Spectacular coincidences, hidden roots, historical premises.
Luigi Garlando, SportWeek

First published by Pitch Publishing, 2022
Pitch Publishing
A2 Yeoman Gate
Yeoman Way
Durrington
BN13 3QZ
www.pitchpublishing.co.uk
Piero Trellini, 2022
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Contents
Foreword
Prologue
The Man Who Came from Haifa
The Historical Memory of the Italians
The Mundial
Prehistory
The Red Coast
The Land of Dreams
Brasil, Italia
The Professor Who Missed the Titanic
The Man of the Mundial
The Snake Smoked
The Dasslers
The Count
Bernab u s Right Hand
The Revelation
La Dolce Vita
Father and Son
Christmas 1956
O Plano Paulo Machado de Carvalho
The Magnificent Seven
The Affront
Hands in Pockets
The Terror
The Subversives
The Tim o
The War of the Sons
The Czarina
The Duellers
The Pact
The Gift
The New Rules of the Puppeteer
Another 5 July
The Flood
The Best Deal of a Lifetime
From Total Football to Social Football
The Chair Game
Real Vicenza
The Spark
The Hidden Property
The Exchange
Hilton Hotel, 11pm
The Silence
The Mason, Mason and Massera
Pablito
Marmelada Peruana
Suddenly the Last Mundial
The Scenario
The Package
The First Sponsor
The Fox and the Cat
Muddy
The Brazil of Tel Santana
Game of Four
L tranger
The Mundialito
One Kingdom is Not Enough
The Trial
The List
Socratic Democracy
The Return
The Forbidden Place
A Ship in a Storm
The Call of Destiny
The Mundial
The Spain 82 Affair
All the Enemies of Saporta
Rey s Madness
Ossie s Dream
The Boycott
The Two Masters
The Blind Faith
The Mystical Side of the No1
A Dog Day Afternoon
O Canh o
Tel s Binary Combinations
The Magic Square I
The Magic Square II
The Golden Cage
The Great War
The Massacre Game
The Magic Square III
Meeting the King
The Other Friulian
The Void
Deus Brasileiro
The Stopover of Shame
The Treatment
The Club of the Cuckoo Heads
Silence is Golden
The Group of Death
The Sarri
The Eve
The First Ballet
The Revolt of the Excluded
The Brancazot Armada
The War of the Pens
The Grangiu n
The Big Chill
The Farewell Waltz
The Flop
Achilles Heel
The Vecio s Plan
Serginho
War of the Worlds
The Tower Move
The Bluff
Hotel Majestic, Room 427
The Last Session
Quelli Che il Calcio
The Night
Marathon-Sarri
Against the Legend
The Corsera Crew
The Artist
The Exercise
The Doubt
Lettera 32
The Killer
The Future, Now
The Match
Why
The Chairmen
Three Men and a Pipe
The Gentleman
The Voices of the Commentators
Italy, Make Us Dream
A Soul Split in Two
The Game Is Not the Same for Everyone
The Last Words
The Italian
Fratelli d Italia
In the Middle of the Pitch
Mr Tim s Certainties
Zoff s Gloves
First Half
The Kick-Off
The P Point
The Fleeting Moment
O Galinho
O Doutor
The 12 Steps
The Clown
The Running Man
The Defence with a Moustache
The Right Choice
Lo Zio
The Last Fires
Half-Time
In the Grandstand
The Backup Plan
Second Half
The Second Act
The Last Souvenir
No Truce
The Scream of Judas
Tiziu s Moment
Three to Two
The Sorrows of Young Peres
The Last Quarter
A Caged Lion
The Envy of the Gods - Part One
The Envy of the Gods - Part Two
The Promise
The Blue Oak
Zoff s Oscar
The End
Conclusion
The Child of the Sarri
Endings
Jos s Destiny
The Sarri Tragedy
Towards Glory
The Black Jackets
The Scopone Plane
Jumping on the Bandwagon
The Fate of the Powers
The Man Who Did Not Want America
Made in Italy
The Evolution of Football in Italy
Bearzot
After Bearzot
Santana
The Defeated Generation
The Search for Explanations
The Sad Destinies of the Champions
The End of the Sarri and the Match of the Century
Author s Notes
The Air of the Mundial
Photos
To Dab , Arturo and Olivia.
And to my family.
Like now, then. Always.
In Barcelona we were in the most difficult group, with Argentina and Brazil, the world champions and the world s strongest national team. Nobody, nobody at all thought we could have a chance.
Mario Sconcerti
Foreword
It will be a party to remember which will be talked about when many years have passed and its main protagonists will then be just names linked to football mythology.
Mario Vargas Llosa Un partido para la memoria , ABC, 7 July 1982
Football is a metaphor. It simplifies the concepts that shape our existence: justice, fatality, reason, instinct, compassion, cunning, gratitude, morality. Abstractions that find full expression in the moment of a game. A representation that can enter into myth, revealing the profound order that governs life, epicising themes that are rarely present in everyday experience: glory, courage, hostility.
For a young man in the early 1980s, attending a football match could prove to be a sentimental education, a process of change, a training course. And if this was done collectively it could become something important, an event capable of making and thus changing history. At that time we desperately needed heroes. The collective imagination was being renewed with new dreams capable, after years of darkness, of filling our expectations with hope. We were chasing a new epic, renewed utopias, sagas capable of involving the planet. It was the era of Star Wars, Rocky, Superman and Goldrake. In an Italy squeezed between an Italian Saturday and a bestial Sunday, in the light of the ball, people abandoned themselves with desperate euphoria because the rest of the week was pitch black. Inflation, intrigue, cabals, massacres and speculation. The country s colour was grey. But not yet pinstriped. Italians were still carrying around an idea of poverty and were experiencing times of waiting. And among the moments that punctuated the change that then took place, one cannot be forgotten.
On 5 July 1982, Enzo Bearzot s Italy beat Brazil, then became world champions six days later. It was a crucial moment in the redefinition of Italian identity. A moment that, as Giovanni Spadolini, Italy s then prime minister, had predicted when greeting the Azzurri before they left for Spain, would have had a far greater impact on our lives than any other political event.
It all happened on a summer afternoon, the longest, most dramatic and most illuminating of my entire life as a sports fan. I was 12 years old when I saw Italy vs Brazil. The perfect age to experience a match at the height of one s dreamy enthusiasm. A naive and uncontaminated impetus, able to open candidly the doors to the myth, to let it sediment inside you forever. I remember everything about those hours. My grandfather had left a month before the start of the Mundial (the World Cup), and I was with my family on the cool side of the house where we lived at the time, in front of the television. It was a Telefunken set with a two-button remote control. Due to a strange interference, if I sneezed it would change the channel and you had to go all the way around to go back to the channel. But on that summer afternoon I couldn t be cold. It was hot as hell and there was no air. In Rome, where I was, as well as in Barcelona, where the match was being played.
That Brazil side was unbeatable. And nobody was betting on Italy. But on that pitch, the team that seemed to have been born to conquer the world lost it, and the other team, which until then had not yet been aware of itself, managed to go down in history. The clearest memory I have of that afternoon is a bad feint by J nior that made the ball go sideways. My father pointed out the naivety. And that image still remains for me the emblem of the match. A demigod who, in a daring gesture normal for him, spreads his legs to pass a ball. Failing.
But that match was much more than that, and this story tries to recount it, trying to overturn the commonplace (from the allegorical paradigm of attack against defence) or rehabilitate scapegoats (such as the wooden Serginho or the clumsy Waldir Peres, who played two of the most literary and fascinating roles in this match), overcoming the naive vision of the good guys defeating the villains. Because that Brazil was as beautiful