Paulo Rossi RIP

[Grosso Mk II]

[Con M]

Sad. RIP. Brilliant predatory goals against Brazil in the 1982 World Cup.

[SP999]

What a champion he was!

RIP

[predrag]

A true legend of the game.

[Michael]

Pasing of a true legend, what a player.

Paolo Rossi scored more than 150 goals in his career but if you wanted to understand the brilliance of a player whose death at the age of 64 sent Italy into mourning on Thursday, it may be enough to watch the one he grabbed in the 1982 World Cup final.
Or, more realistically, perhaps a slow-motion replay. The Italy striker does not appear to have position on his West Germany opponent Karlheinz Förster as Claudio Gentile prepares to send in a cross from the right. Only with repeat viewings does it become clear Rossi has started his run a frame or two sooner, building velocity, anticipating the delivery before it has even been dispatched. He beats Förster, and his own team-mate Antonio Cabrini, to the ball by a fraction, heading in from close range.
“That goal, more than any other goal that I scored, had the distinctive feel of being my kind of goal: a goal that reflected my characteristics,” remembered Rossi in the 2018 documentary One To Eleven. “It was mine, because I stole that 10th of a second from the defender. I went before he did and I knew he would not be able to catch me.”
Few could. Rossi was rarely the fastest player, yet somehow he was usually the quickest: stepping away from his marker before they even noticed he was gone. Fulvio Collovati, a teammate in that 1982 World Cup side, but a rival in Serie A for many years, described him as “pure phosphorus”.

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https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... on-tribute

[Rookie]

Sad day for the Football world and the Rossi family, RIP Paolo Rossi

[Old Master]

R.I.P Paulo Rossi.

A player who always managed to lose his marker in tight situations and his finishing was second to none.