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Marcio Amoroso and the memories of the Mundial: “How much Paolo Rossi made me cry on my birthday”

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Marcio Amoroso and the memories of the Mundial: “How much Paolo Rossi made me cry on my birthday”

On 5 July 1982, the day of Italy-Brazil 3-2 at the Mundial of Spain, Marcio Amoroso turned eight. “How many tears Paolo Rossi made me shed that day”, says after forty years the Brazilian champion, former Udinese, passing through Friuli for three weeks. Marcio talks about himself in a relaxing day spent with his old friends, those of Club Arthur Zico in Orsaria, who represent an irreplaceable reference for him here in Friuli. “They are my Friulian family,” he says, accompanying the sentence with that contagious smile of his.

Marcio, do you remember him really well that day of his eighth birthday?

“Of course. We were on vacation in the club where my father was a member and we saw the game together with many other people. In Brazil there was great confidence in that Seleçao, in my opinion the strongest ever since that of 1970. And even at the beginning, when Italy took the lead, there was the belief that we would recover. After Paolo Rossi’s 3-2, those certainties cracked. I started to cry, I couldn’t believe it. And I was wondering who the hell this Paolo Rossi was capable of scoring three goals against Brazil ».

That seemed like a written game and instead …

“Brazil paid for Careca’s absence. He would have been the starting center forward and with all due respect to Serginho it would have been something else. In the middle of the field there was an extraordinary quality: Cerezo, Falcao, Socrates and my idol Zico. As I said before, only the Seleçao of ’70 with Jairzinho, Gerson, Tostao, Pele and Rivelinho was superior. That Brazil played without a center forward, I wasn’t born yet, but I saw the matches: it was “unplayable” ».

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She is from Brasilia, but Flamengo was her favorite team and Zico the idol. Because?

«Before Brasilia, Rio was the capital. And when there was the change, everyone who worked in the various ministries moved. You can change city not football faith. My grandfather was a “flamenco fan”, my father too, and when I was little he gave me the Rossoneri shirt. A child thinks that a father always does good and right things ».

Zico was the champion and the leader of that Flamengo.

“Dad took me to the Maracana to see him live and told me to study him, see how he moved on the pitch without the ball and how he kicked. What a player!”.

A year after the 1982 Mundial Zico arrives at Udinese. How did she take it?

“That was the first time I heard the word Udine. It was feared that Zico could leave Flamengo to go to Italy, but in a big club, certainly not Udinese. “And where the hell is Udine?”, We all wondered. Incredible but true: thirteen years later I would have followed the same path ».

Yes, because Udinese bought her from Guaranì, but she wore the Flamengo shirt last season.

“Mine and Zico’s were similar paths: we both played in Japan, in Flamengo and Udinese.”

Now we understand why on the day of your presentation in Udine with Zico in the role of “guarantor” you were so excited.

“I have a very strong memory of that day. Piazza San Giacomo was packed, there must have been 5,000 people. I consider it a privilege to have been presented by Zico, he has not made a similar gesture for any other player ».

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Today football has changed. Presentations are not made in the square or at a press conference, but in a television studio.

«The world has changed and football has changed, but for the worse. Footballers are like rock stars, untouchable and unreachable. Yet I believe that having a direct relationship with people is important: you make yourself known first as a person than as a player and if they know you then on the day of the match if you are in difficulty they do not boo at you, on the contrary they try to help you ».

Speaking of football changed: players of the caliber of Dybala expiring in the contract in mid-July have not yet found a team. A few years ago he would have signed the day after he was released. What is happening?

“There is less money and companies have to cash out before making an investment.”

And what does Udinese tell us?

«I believe that the club, due to the philosophy that characterizes it, should make an investment in a top coach, because he is the one who then makes you improve the players and enhances them. I wish Sottil to do well, he has the advantage of knowing the environment, but this is my thought. And in any case the problem is another ».

Which?

«Udinese is seen by the players as a stage of passage. But I say that whoever wears this shirt must respect what we did many years ago and then the teams of Spalletti and Guidolin. I say this because I love this company ».

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A judgment on Beto?

“Interesting striker, in the first year in Italy he scored 11 goals, if he had always played he could have made 15. He still has a lot of room for improvement both at a technical level and in terms of choice and timing of plays”.

His son Matteo was discarded from the Udinese nursery and today he is in the first team of the Porto Alegre International. Has anyone been mistaken?

«This will be the time to tell. I grew up in Udine as a footballer and as a man and I would have liked my son to do the same path. Unfortunately this was not possible. I’d like to see him one day in black and white, but I think it’s a bit complicated, to free him you have to pay a 60 million clause ».

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