The rumble of Riva – an Italian icon

Golazzo: The Totally Italian Football Show

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🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Jimbo, James Horncastle and Gab Marcotti return to discuss Italy’s all-time leading goalscorer, the benchmark by which all Italian strikers have been measured against – Gigi Riva. Spending almost his entire career at Cagliari and leading Sardinia to its only Scudetto, why did Riva refuse to leave despite world record offers? This is the story of a mechanic turned leading man with chiselled cheekbones and a shot that broke a ballboy’s arm. RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: The legacy of Luigi Riva (01m 00s) • PART 2a: Riva makes the move to Sardinia (05m 00s) • PART 2b: Cagliari adapt to life in Serie A (11m 30s) • PART 2c: What kind of a striker was he? (14m 30s) • PART 3: Riva debuts for Italy – some Azzurri highlights (18m 00s) • PART 4a: Cagliari win the Scudetto (21m 30s) • PART 4b: Riva goes to 1970 World Cup (29m 30s) • PART 5: Riva’s upbringing – why didn’t he leave Cagliari? (34m 00s) • PART 6: Riva’s life after football (42m 00s) GET IN TOUCH: • follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/totallyfootballshow/) • find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/thetotallyfootballshow/) • send us a tweet: @TheTotallyShow (http://www.twitter.com/thetotallyshow) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Muddinies Media.
0:04.0	GOL LASO.
0:07.0	On today's Goladzo, arguably Italy's greatest ever center forward.
0:18.9	G. G. G. Riva, the man who half a century ago had calorie saying a river duchy to their rivals. Hello listener welcome back for another galazzo today our subject
0:37.1	nothing less than the man the legend arguably as I say the gracest
0:41.3	Santa forward Italy's ever produced, G.G. River, and having a chat about
0:46.2	him, James Horncastle.
0:48.2	Hi James.
0:49.2	And Gab ready Marcotti.
0:51.2	Great to be with you.
0:52.2	And it's lovely to see you too, Gab.
0:54.6	What kind of position does Gigi Luigi Reaver hold in the Italian football firmament?
1:00.1	I mean he is generally considered to be the the benchmark against which all other
1:06.4	center forwards are pretty much judged. Obviously he was before my time but he was
1:11.6	sort of one generation before me or before my football consciousness started.
1:16.0	So I grew up with every center forward that came along from from Altobelli to Pablo to Pablo Rosi to Viali to Qasiragi, the Christian
1:26.4	Yere and on and on, everybody got compared to Gijiriva who is sort of this
1:31.2	universal figure also because and obviously we're going to talk a lot about
1:35.2	Kyri and Sardinia in this, but the fact that he didn't play for one of the traditional
1:39.9	powers made him incredibly nonpartisan.
1:43.5	In Italy more than most, we're very good at pointing out flaws of other people's
1:49.3	heroes.
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