Life and career of a ferocious but not bad scorer, he is the symbol of the full-back-mastiff, when in Italy it was strictly man-marked
In the epochal nursery rhyme that marked the imagination of the 80s generation, Gentile comes after Zoff and before Cabrini, forever stuck there, concentrated and watchful, dedicated to marking an opponent, usually the most fearsome. In celebrating him on his 70th birthday we must start by disproving a fake that has always accompanied him.