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Golazzo: The Totally Italian Football Show

Italy at Italia 90

Golazzo: The Totally Italian Football Show

The Athletic

Sports, Soccer

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

For many, it was the World Cup of Gazza, Higuita and Milla. But for Italy, it was the one that got away. Jimbo, James Horncastle and Gab Marcotti look back at the iconic Italia 90 and what it meant to the host nation. We reveal the staggering cost of staging the tournament and for how long Italy as a country were counting that cost. It was the World Cup that built broadcasting careers and it was the World Cup that a glamorous-looking Italian side were supposed to win Baggio broke out, Schillaci scored a lot and Italy recruited an army of fans including Madonna. But it was Maradona who helped turn Italians against their own team as Argentina broke the host nation’s hearts in the semi-final. Fast-forwarding to the present day, we take a look at Roberto Mancini’s current Italy squad and ask whether or not Mancini understands the point of the Nations League. RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: Italy prepare to host the World Cup at great expense (02m 45s) • PART 2a: Glamorous Italy enter the tournament as favourites (08m 50s) • PART 2b: Roberto Baggio breaks out (13m 45s) • PART 3a: Italy negotiate the group stage (16m 10s) • PART 3b: Gab Marcotti attends Italy v Uruguay (18m 10s) • PART 3c: The Toto Schillaci phenomenon (20m 25s) • PART 4a: Semi-final heartache against Maradona’s Argentina (22m 45s) • PART 4b: The immediate fall-out for Italian football (30m 30s) • PART 5: Mancini’s Italy in Nations League action (36m 20s) GET IN TOUCH: • find us on Facebook, where you’ll find video, photos and loads of other stuff. • send us a tweet: @theTotallyShow • for sales and advertising email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I, Kevin Keegan, here to talk to you about my new book, My Life in Football.

0:04.6

Published 50 years after my professional debut, it's the story of how I went from struggling to make it

0:09.4

into the Pegler's Brassworks Reserve team to winning back to back Ballandors.

0:14.3

It's also the story about that amazing 95-96 season with Newcastle United and then my return

0:20.0

to the club and later departure in 2008. My life in football is available wherever books are sold.

0:26.1

And of course I would love it if you bought a copy. Golasso! Golazzo, taking you back to the crazy days before football existed.

0:49.1

1990 and the World Cup that changed everything.

0:52.4

For you it's all Ness and Roger Miller dancing. And the World Cup that changed everything.

0:52.6

For you it's all Nesondomer and Roger Miller dancing at the corner.

0:55.8

But what did it mean for the Italians?

0:57.6

And why does one commentator call it the disaster Italian football has never recovered from.

1:03.0

Find out in today's Goladsoe. It is 1990. We're wearing baggy clothing, listener, and listening to songs like Tom's

1:28.8

Diner as we get ready for a football world cup. There's James Horncastle, you how old James?

1:35.0

About six and a half.

1:37.0

And Gab Marcotti a little bit older.

1:39.0

Yeah, substantially older.

1:41.0

Right, and already in love with a beautiful game. The summer I turned 17. Oh yeah in fact I don't know if I can

1:47.2

have to plug something but you can read it for free on the internet anyway. I wrote an extremely long story about the memories about

1:55.1

that summer and how everything changed for me my relationship with football

2:00.0

for the blizzard it's the one where you're working on the farm and the farm

2:03.0

winch takes you in hand and the boy becomes is it that one is it exactly

2:07.6

the world cup is the little boy can make you a man right okay no I. It's beautiful. The bit where you're looking up at the sky, wishing to see stars, but it's cloudy. I felt that was somehow symbolic. 1990, things were were different and football was different.

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