Farewell to Pablito, "he was a boy like us"

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10 December 2020Italian football is in mourning for the death of Paolo Rossi, and the flags are at half mast: it is the choice of the FIGC, which has decided to lower the banners in its Roman headquarters, in via Allegri, and above all in Coverciano , the home of the national team, in Florence. 

"My classmates from 82 keep writing to me in the chat ... a part of us is gone. A part of my life is gone."

So

, also world champion with the Italian national team in '82, in the role of defender, reminds the microphones of Radio too.

"We want to continue to remember him as his wife reminded us tonight" he added referring to the photo posted on Instagram that portrays 'Pablito' smiling next to his Federica Cappelletti with the words 'forever'.

"I owe a lot to him - he underlined - because he made us win the world championship in 82".

And he recalled: "He had been my opponent, I marked him as a defender, he was an honest but unpredictable opponent" he concluded.

"Six months ago I lost a brother, today I'm mourning another. I don't want to say anything else, this is not the time for me to talk."

teammate of Paolo Rossi for many years at Juve and in the national team, he is destroyed in remembering the goalscorer.

"I don't know what to say, it was bolt from the blue".

So

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"Paolo Rossi made us feel proud to be Italian, he was the hero of all of us. Serie A mourns an immortal of our football, loved by the whole world. I send a heartfelt hug and the condolences of Lega Serie A to all his family ".

So

, president of Lega Serie A, 

the

"Paolo Rossi ... he was a boy like us", and a red heart next to it drawn with an emoticon.

Thus, with this caption, Antonello Venditti on his Facebook profile.

Venditti dedicated to the footballer a verse from his famous song 'Giulio Cesare', published in 1986 and sung by the generations of that period.

"We were thirty-four, now we're gone, and you're sitting in this bench. It was the year of the World Cup in 1986, Paolo Rossi was a boy like us".

The text, dedicated to nostalgia and to the time that passes by changing habits and fashions, but always leaving an underlying uneasiness, refers, in those verses, to the 1986 World Cup in Mexico where Italy presented itself with the trophy won in Spain. in 1982, but was eliminated.

And in this way, with the words of that verse, tonight the Roman singer was one of the first to remember 'Pablito'.

"In our hearts, forever. Farewell Pablito Paolo Rossi".

This is the message of condolence posted on Twitter by the leader of Italia Viva Matteo Renzi.