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Zaza looked like a horse that was putting on s show for the queen
----1990 TM, You will always have a special place in our hearts Goalie-----------abedzadeh----------
Defense----hassanzadeh-----zarincheh-------moharami----
midfield---namjoo motlagh---shahrokh bayani---cyrus ghayeghran---eftekhari---Abtahi
forward-----pius-----marfavi-----
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"Iranians are fiercely nationalistic", Michael Rubin, an Iran expert at the American Enterprise Institute
. Sports doesn't build character. It reveals it - Legendary UCLA coach, John R Wooden
So July 11, 1982, and the final against the Germans, has become the most memorable date in the Italian football calendar, and the one with the most iconic images. Antonio Cabrini’s missed penalty in the first half. Marco Tardelli running screaming, arms aloft after putting Italy 2-0 up with 20 minutes to go. Italy’s President Sandro Pertini on his feet up in the stand, cheekily waving his pipe in the air to dismiss German efforts to salvage something from the game. Pertini again, along with Bearzot, Dino Zoff, and Franco Causio, playing cards on the plane back home, with the World Cup trophy on the table between them. It is the most famous game of cards in Italian history. Causio was paired with Bearzot, Zoff, with Pertini, and the story is that Causio tricked the president to win the game, although Pertini insisted that he simply made a mistake.
Even the plane has passed into legend. Years later, the Italian air force sent it to Boeing, who then sold it to Alitalia in 2007 for training purposes. For the past six years, the DC9 has been stored in a hangar in Rome and it was due to be scrapped, but three months ago the airline announced that it will go to the aeronautical museum at Milan’s Malpensa airport for permanent display. In that 1982 team the midfield enforcer was Gabriele Oriali, now working as Italy’s team manager alongside Antonio Conte. “The way this side has grown over the past two years reminds me a bit of Italy back then,” he says. “We too were a group that became a team....
Best German team of all time couldnt beat the Worst Italian team of all time. GUTTED ;-(
best German team of all time!? I take the 1990 and 2014 team with lahm and Klose over this team any day.
----1990 TM, You will always have a special place in our hearts Goalie-----------abedzadeh----------
Defense----hassanzadeh-----zarincheh-------moharami----
midfield---namjoo motlagh---shahrokh bayani---cyrus ghayeghran---eftekhari---Abtahi
forward-----pius-----marfavi-----
.
"Iranians are fiercely nationalistic", Michael Rubin, an Iran expert at the American Enterprise Institute
. Sports doesn't build character. It reveals it - Legendary UCLA coach, John R Wooden
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