[ ...] I have "stolen" something to each of the techniques that I had. Word from the ability to empower young people, Trapattoni the ability to hold together the dressing room, from the Marquesas serenity. And Bearzot the extraordinary humanity that is the foundation of every success. " The memory of Enzo Bearzot can be summarized in the words of Gaetano Scirea, former captain Juventus died in 1989. Passed away at 83 years, Bearzot "the vecio" as everyone called him, brings tears of an entire generation, that of 11 July 1982, was glued in front of the TV to see Zoff and his companions up to the sky the third World Cup blue. Enzo was born September 26, 1927 in Aiello del Friuli: its first steps in the team of his country, then in 1946 moved to Pro Gorizia ( in Serie B), where collection making 39 appearances 2 goals. He slept with a picture of Campetella, centromediano Inter, under the pillow: his dream is therefore to play a great team. Just 's Inter hires him as his idol in 1948, but in three seasons, takes the field only 19 times. Then three years in Catania in B and A again in Turin. In total he played 251 games in the top flight. Hung his boots on a nail and started his career as a coach: 1964 to 1967 is at Torino, first as a goalkeeper coach and then as an assistant before Nereo Rocco, and then Fabbri. In the season '68 / '69 is instead in Prato, where in the second half of the season replacing Dino Ballacci. The big breakthrough came shortly after when he was appointed youth coach (1969/75). Since that moment, there's promotion to assistant Ferruccio Valcareggi and the second Fulvio Bernardini. In 1975 he became commissioner technical, but failing to qualify for EURO 1976. Then came the fourth places of Argentina '78 (World Cup) and Italy 80 (Europe). '82 Spain's triumph - the name of Enzo Bearzot is linked, as mentioned earlier, the national team to victory at the world championships in 1982, played in Spain. The football we arrived to the appointment after an earthquake of biblical proportions: at the beginning of the decade, alongside the testimonies of two repentant Cruciani and Trinca, the judiciary began to investigate managers, coaches and players that affect the performance of their Sunday teams to ensure illegal gambling winnings. Milan and Lazio were relegated to Serie B, AC Milan players like goalkeeper Albertosi were struck while others, such as Paolo Rossi, were disqualified. "Pablito" revert to Spain shortly before the start of '82: the press and the public Bearzot asked to leave home, but the coach decided to let it participate in the adventure world, and not calling Pruzzo Beccalossi. Failure to call it even cost him a slap to the technician, a girl, after a workout of the Azzurri in Coverciano, approached him and struck him in protest for not having included in the list, the Inter player. After passing the first phase of the national team that arrived in the quarter, the group played with the formula in Girona, proposed grids of respect: in the third group were Italy, Brazil and Argentina. The blues, after the success with Argentina, to play the qualifier against Brazil, which dismissed Passarella and co. for 3 - 2. It was necessary to win: draw, in the light of green-gold in the +1 goal difference would have been fatal. Rossi stretched his hat-trick of a very strong team, which militated Zico and Falcão. In semi-final against Poland, was still "Pablito" the protagonist: the 2-0 led the Azzurri to Madrid! In front there was West Germany, which eliminated only on penalties (8-7) the France. The effort of one hundred and twenty minutes, combined with shots from eleven meters, cost dear to the Germans who fell under the blows of Rossi, Tardelli and Altobelli. Italy, after forty-four, has returned to the top of the world thanks to a career coach who once had only one dress shirt. Subsequently, the Azzurri failed to qualify for the 1984 European Championship. Bearzot, after the disappointing World Cup in 1986 (out in the second round), resigned.
records - holds the blue benches: 104, 97 in front of the Vittorio Pozzo (who died, like him, December 21). It is also the only national free natives to have won a world. From 2002 to 2005 was then chairman of the Technical Section of the FIGC.
Giorgio Velardi
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