«I come from oratory football and from peasant Italy – he will say one day in an interview – I stole the ball from the opponent and the plums from the neighbor’s trees. Football was everything to me. Even though I had to work hard to make it understood at home: I was skinny, I was always sweating, and my mother, worried, hid my playing shoes.”
Today Marco Tardelli, a living icon of the 1982 Mundial, turns 70 years oldof which over 60 passed on the playing fields, Marco Tardelli the palm of the best Italian footballer of the 80s, Paulo Roberto Falcao spoke about it precisely in these terms, and the Brazilian ex Roma is a rather authoritative source.
the goal of a lifetime, the one that no one can forget against Germany, a few seconds to enter the collective memory, sixteen years of activity to write the story of one of the first modern midfielders of our football, if not the first ever.
