Golasso! 1982, a number, another summer, as Golazzo goes back to one of the most remarkable

World Cup campaigns ever, Espania 82, Triumph of the Azuri. Also today, an update on how this year's model is getting on

against Finland and Liechtenstein and a huge weekend in Sydney. Now. It's summer of 1982 and a group of men are playing cards at 30,000 feet.

Around a small table are clustered on one hand Franco Causio and Dino Zoth on the other

the president of the Italian Republic Sandra Pertini and

Italy manager Enzo Berzon. Beside them on the table alongside the

discarded cars is a large thing called a FIFA World Cup trophy. It's one of the most iconic

images of an incredible summer for Italian football. The patida discopone on the way back from the

triumph of the Bernabeo, Gabbyne Marotti and James Horncastle.

Today we're going to talk about the events that led up to that game of cards and an extraordinary, unexpected World Cup triumph.

That scene you described James is obviously very iconic, very meaningful to a lot of us.

And as far as you mentioned there, Sandra Petini, without wanting to bore people silly, we have a presidency

which is a head of state and then we have a prime minister who actually runs a country.

But the president traditionally is supposed to be the guarantor the sort of the universal impartial figure

bit like Burco actually but in Patini's case it was was interesting because he had obviously he'd fought in the resistance during World War II and he was sort of this short very old and old looking I mean in my memory he's always like a million years old which obviously he must have been young once and

there's a wonderful scene in the final where he's up in the director's box and he can't contains himself and he has this huge smile as he turns to the King of Spain and whatnot.

But we often live these world cups via little sort of fragments of images, things that stand

out, gazas tears, all this nonsense.

But it is nonsense, but it's also very real.

And so I think, but it seems hugely important to people in Italy

where we dislike our politicians as much as people everywhere do, but he was somebody who really

was adored by everybody and even more so because he's so associated with that 1982 win.

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