“I come from oratorical football and peasant Italy – he would say one day in an interview – I stole the ball from the opponent and the plums from the neighbor's trees. Football was everything to me. Even if I had to work hard to make it understood at home: I was thin, I was always sweating and my mother, worried, hid my playing shoes.”
Today, Marco Tardelli, living icon of the 1982 World Cup, turns 70 years oldof which more than 60 have passed on the playing fields, Marco Tardelli The prize for the best Italian footballer of the 80s, Paulo Roberto Falcao spoke about it precisely in these terms, and the ex-Romanian Brazilian is a rather authoritative source.
the goal of a lifetime, the one that no one can forget against Germany, a few seconds to enter the collective memory, sixteen years of activity to write the history of one of the first modern midfielders of our football, if not the first.
