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Golazzo: The Totally Italian Football Show

Football’s Coming Rome

Golazzo: The Totally Italian Football Show

The Athletic

Sports, Soccer

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Jimbo, James Horncastle and Gab Marcotti are back to cast their minds all the way back to the summer and Italy’s unforgettable Euro 2020 triumph. In 2017, Italian football was on its knees, with the national team failing to qualify for the World Cup. So how did the Azzurri transform themselves into undoubtedly the best team at Euro 2020, breaking English hearts in the process? It’s a story featuring Mancini, Maneskin and meatballs. RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: Mancini replaces Ventura (01m 30s) • PART 2: The composition of the Italy squad (08m 00s) • PART 3a: Italy sail through the group stage in Rome (14m 00s) • PART 3b: The role of Mancini’s backroom staff + Bonucci & Chiellini (22m 00s) • PART 4a: The day of the final (35m 30s) • PART 4b: Did England lose the final? (42m 00s) • PART 4c: Italy win the shootout (46m 00s) • PART 4d: Three Lions, Donnarumma and the culmination of a philosophy (51m 00s) SIGN UP TO THE ATHLETIC TODAY FOR 33% OFF THE PRICE OF AN ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION • theathletic.com/totally GET IN TOUCH: • follow us on Instagram • find us on Facebook • send us a tweet: @TheTotallyShow READ STUFF ON OUR WEBSITE: • check out thetotallyfootballshow.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today, Golanso returns with an epic tale of Renashita, of Risogimento, of Rigori, of Roberto

0:22.4

and a football coming Rome.

0:24.4

Yes, today hindsight is 2020, as we relive the Azuris conquest of Europe.

0:30.4

Jalai 2021, Wembley Stadium, the Euro 2020 final, and Grazio Signore Cicciadavel

1:00.4

in Calcio, Italy are European champions. Three and a half years before San Sero, Italy

1:09.6

nil Sweden nil, on what Gazeta called the Calcio Apocalypse, Italy missing out on the

1:15.1

World Cup for the first time in 60 years. In between, what was behind Italy's meteoroic

1:25.4

climb back to the top, but I'm delighted to say that here to unravel that mystery and more

1:30.2

top investigative team, Marc Cotti and Horncastle, hello. Hello. Hello, James.

1:36.9

Nice. Hey, what a treat to be telling this story, eh? Yeah, we're really going back into the

1:43.8

depths of time here. I'm going to tell you now, I am not going to go light on the superlatives

1:51.2

because while they could imagine Italy, winning the Euros, it's not difficult to imagine. We've

1:56.4

won it before with World Cup, we won them, we'll win them again. I genuinely didn't think that

2:01.8

it could happen in this way, playing this brand of football. And I think, you know, this is,

2:07.5

this is the biggest part of the story, to me at least, of the significance of this. And

2:13.3

you know, and people are going to add more things in them, I'm sure we will, we'll also point out

2:17.1

that, you know, Jacob's won the 100 meter dash at the Olympics, which is just as unlikely,

2:23.2

my NASK in winning the Eurovision. And just yesterday, some Italian physicists I've never heard of,

2:28.3

but I'm sure Horncastle has just won the, um, just won the Nobel Prize as well. So, so far, so good.

2:36.0

Also won Perry Rubey at the weekend. Oh, there you go. Yeah.

2:40.7

All right. And the other thing about this, as we've already touched on, is that the kind of

2:46.3

narrative arc coming from that tremendous low of 2017, how low was that? The fallout from

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