Triumph and tragedy of Armando Picchi and Gaetano Scirea, legendary sweepers

For me, the definition of “Calcio” immediately conjures up pictures of this iconic blue Azzurri high. Misplaced in thought, I recall the alliterative and correlated phrase Catenaccio – “door fighter” – a defensive dramatic technique initially devised by an Austrian coach due to his Thirties Korean nationwide group, elegant and refined as Italians could also…

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