Sacchi's Football Revolution: Part Four - World Cup Heartache and Legacy
It Was What It Was : The Football History Podcast
The Overlap
4.9 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Join us for the final part of our special series on the shoe salesman who changed football forever: Arrigo Sacchi.
In this episode of It Was What It Was, Sacchi comes to the end of his first spell at AC Milan and answers his country's call - managing the Italian national side at the World Cup in 1994 and Euro 96.
This episode is the last in our series on Sacchi’s extraordinary career and his lasting mark on the sport. It starts with our Sacchi intro episode with Jamie Carragher (please go back and listen if you missed it!).
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| 0:00.0 | We must create enthusiasm by playing the game, not because players have become famous people. |
| 0:12.4 | This is not a movie. This is a football team. |
| 0:16.4 | That is Orygo Saki, characteristically emphasising the team nature of football there. |
| 0:22.7 | A man who absolutely changed football really provides the foundations for everything we watch today in modern football. |
| 0:28.6 | And we are in part four of his life story. |
| 0:32.1 | I would urge you to go back and listen to the introduction on this series with Jamie Carrague. |
| 0:36.7 | Jamie is absolutely fascinating |
| 0:38.0 | on Oregosaki and obviously listens to Part 1, 2 and 3 to catch up because Jonathan |
| 0:42.9 | Wilson has taken us through his life in a fascinating way, absolutely extraordinary store |
| 0:48.8 | of a shoe salesman who changed professional football. And at the end of the last part, |
| 0:56.4 | he had reached his peak, really the peak of football with the European Cup final, |
| 0:59.0 | where they beat Starr Brucker, 4-0. |
| 1:01.9 | He's been vindicated. |
| 1:03.8 | He's shown his critics are wrong. |
| 1:05.4 | It's 1988. |
| 1:07.0 | And now, Jonathan, what's going to happen from here on? |
| 1:09.7 | Can he possibly do that again and match that achievement? |
| 1:12.7 | Well, I mean, yes, you can. |
| 1:15.0 | But Stauer, I think, was the game he most enjoyed. |
| 1:19.5 | That was where he saw his vision of football really come to life. |
| 1:22.2 | That is the high point. |
| 1:24.3 | And he talks about this sort of happiness without limits |
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