Trapattoni at 80 – Part 1 of 2

Golazzo: The Totally Italian Football Show

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🗓️ 6 March 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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As his 80th birthday approaches, Jimbo, James Horncastle and Gab Marcotti pay tribute to the most successful club manager in the history of the game – Giovanni Trapattoni. In the first of a two-part special, we look back at Trapattoni’s playing career, his legend built on a performance v Pele, as well as the start of his management career in Serie A, a career that began at 35 managing giants of Italian football. In the modern day, is there trouble brewing in Turin regarding Ronaldo and Allegri? Across town, Torino are keeping clean sheets galore. Plus Atalanta are flying while Di Francesco is under the cosh after a thrashing in the Rome derby. RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: Trapattoni growing up in Cusano during World War II (02m 30s) • PART 2a: Trapattoni’s playing career begins at Milan (06m 00s) • PART 2b: Trapattoni takes on Pele and Eusebio (12m 00s) • PART 2c: The influence of Nereo Rocco on Trapattoni plus Trap’s Italy career (12m 00s) • PART 3a: Trapattoni moves into management at Milan (16m 00s) • PART 3b: European Cup finals at Juventus against Hamburg and Liverpool (23m 00s) • PART 3c: Trapattoni breaks records at Inter (29m 30s) • PART 4: Serie A round-up – trouble at Juventus as Lazio romp Roma (33m 30s) 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	Golle!
0:05.0	It's a trap!
0:07.0	In today's Golle!
0:12.0	In today's Golado, we salute the one and only Giovanni Trapper Tony who turns 80 on Sunday week.
0:20.0	And also UVAC. off Napoli, Roma is blue and peak atlanta. On board today it's hello Gabbyalee Mocotti welcome back
0:33.4	Thanks great to be back. Did you miss me? Yeah I like actually I know you did too didn't you listen
0:38.8	James Horncastle's here. Hey James that's for good news. Happy birthday Trapetonian advance.
0:44.9	17th and March he will turn 80. And also the 10th of March. Oh yeah. It was the
0:50.6	anniversary of his Strunt's press conference, which we'll get to I'm sure.
0:56.4	Maybe we will, maybe we won't.
0:58.2	Okay.
0:59.2	Because this is a man whose career goes far beyond the kind of standard memes and tropes about him.
1:05.2	His whistle, his appalling sentence construction was lampooned every Sunday night on Italian TV's
1:10.8	throughout the 90s.
1:11.8	His holy water, his ability to Mark Pelleano Seboo out of matches.
1:17.0	There is so much to Trappadoni's story that I think gets a little bit lost behind his recent work because it's kind of hard to unsee
1:26.2	that Ireland team at Euro 2012 Gap.
1:29.1	Yeah, especially if you're Irish, a bad team with a manager who made perhaps some poor choices and then
1:35.6	they got Martin O'Neill so you know God sorted that one out for them so no but
1:41.5	this is a remarkable story that I think really transcends football and really speaks to what
1:47.2	happened in Italy and more broadly in Europe, throughout post-war even during the war even,
1:51.6	to this day.
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