Tardelli: “Mancini lacks a champion. In Italy in 1982 I would have seen Barella well”

He wore that t-shirt with pleasure: “Because the blue shirt is the only one that really fits on the skin of a player”. Marco Tardelli, on the Milanese fields of the Us Triestina, willingly lent himself to be a testimonial, on a light evening, but in which the soccer ball was always at the center, with the Velasca player-artists, at the new capsule of Le Coq Sportif who was the technical sponsor of the national team most loved by the Italians, the one that with Enzo Bearzot at the helm triumphed in the 1982 Mundial in Spain with Sandro Pertini, president of the Republic, an icon of that company that still today, 40 years later , is imprinted on everyone’s mind. A classic blue sweatshirt, two t-shirts, one white and one blue, which are very reminiscent of that Mundial shirt, another more daring sweatshirt and a sneakers, this is the collection presented.

SPECIAL MEMORIES

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Tardelli will never stop remembering that magic, which has become a legend: “We always feel with everyone in our chat. We started as non-winners and came back as winners. A great undertaking first of all made such by those who guided us, Enzo Bearzot. We followed him and him. We went along with it. It was magic, because winning a World Cup is magic. As it was last year for the team that won the European Championship “.

LEFT-HANDED

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Tardelli praises the work of our coach: “He is doing a great job. Finding young players is not easy, the club teams do not wait for them, they do not have patience and they choose the safe used to win. Today is Di’s case. Maria who will go to Juve. Italy lacks a champion that I just don’t see. There isn’t a Totti, a Baggio, a Del Piero “. Who would have taken Tardelli in that magical team?” Surely, Barella would have been good. “

PRESS

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The 1982 company was also the result of an historic press blackout. Now Tardelli finds himself surrounded by journalists: “In those days it was another story. The distance has changed. Before we were close, there was a human relationship. We argued, but then we made peace. Today there is no relationship. between journalists and footballers. There is too much business and a few more tattoos. “