Victory for Verona - Serie A's title miracle

Golazzo: The Totally Italian Football Show

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Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This week on Golazzo, Jimbo, James Horncastle and Gab Marcotti travel back to 1985 to find Italy’s answer to Leicester. Hellas Verona became the only provincial side ever to win the Scudetto, with a team of Preben Elkjær, Hans-Peter Briegel and a collection of cast-offs and misfits. Elsewhere, Sassuolo show their smarts by selling Kevin-Prince Boateng to Barcelona. Plus we round up the domestic action where Quagliarella is chasing a Serie A record, Zapata is the hottest striker in the division and Ancelotti’s Napoli continue to impress. RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: An introduction to Osvaldo Bagnoli – the mastermind of the miracle (01m 30s) • PART 2a: Serie A in 1984/85 – a stellar selection of foreigners (04m 00s) • PART 2b: Verona’s squad of cast-offs (07m 00s) • PART 3a: Verona’s title charge begins (11m 00s) • PART 3b: Verona win the title at Atalanta (19m 30s) • PART 3c: Verona’s contrasting fortunes since (26m 00s) • PART 4: Serie A round-up, as Milan begin life after Higuain (30m 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	Gol Lasso!
0:20.9	City I is. Citi is back. On today's Golatso, we round up all the latest news and for our slice of Calcho culture we go back to the 80s, mateies, for the most surprising Italian title winners ever,
0:27.0	My Verona. Alaska! There's just an empty space.
0:44.0	And you coming back to me is against the odds,
0:48.0	and that's what I've got to me. got paid.
0:59.0	Hey, hey,
0:59.0	Hey, everyone.
1:00.0	Hey everyone, schools in session, and it's back to summer 1984 as against all odds
1:05.4	surments the global popularity of smooth cranium crunna-filled Collins. In Italy one of the greatest tales of beating the odds that the
1:14.7	Campionado has ever seen is about to get underway. The story of Helas Verona
1:19.8	champions in the 84-85 season.
1:23.7	Gabrielli Marcotti is here with us, James Horncastle as well.
1:26.8	Gabriel is it fair to say that this is your favorite ever season of Italian football? I think in many ways it was a season everything came together.
1:36.0	Back then you had a limit of two foreigners per team as most people know.
1:40.0	I think that season pound for pound the foreigners in CEDIA were probably as good as have been
1:47.4	assembled in a single league anywhere in the history of football.
1:51.6	We'll list them very very shortly and the fact that Verana, with 17 players,
1:56.8	squatter 17 players, were able to defeat all of them
1:59.7	is something that's quite extraordinary.
2:01.7	We'll also look at maybe some of the reasons
2:03.3	why that happened that particular season. Later on James Horncastle, your parents were
2:07.7	barely born when the season took place. But yet, you know, anyone who spent time in and around Italian football, you can't move for bumping into the legend, the miracle of Verona.
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