Soccernostalgia Talk Podcast-Episode 273 (Interview with Italian Author Roberto Amorosino, as we discuss Lazio in the 1970s and the 1974 Scudetto)

 This is the 273^rd episode of my podcast, 'Soccernostalgia Talk Podcast’.

 

For this episode, I interview Italian Author Roberto Amorosino, as we discuss Lazio in the 1970s and the 1974 Scudetto.

 

Roberto Amorosino, has in the past, worked at international organizations in the human resources area between Washington DC, Paris and Rome.

He writes for Italian sports website https://www.sportmemory.it/ and is the author of Italian language book: Venti di calcio (2022).

 

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Mr. Amorosino’s contact info:

Website: https://www.sportmemory.it/

Book:

https://www.sportmemory.it/prodotto/venti-di-calcio/

https://www.amazon.it/Venti-calcio-Roberto-Amorosino/dp/8894670619

 

 

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Cartoons and Diagrams, Part Nine

Cartoon I:

Photo From: World Soccer, March 1995

Explanation: This cartoon shows Eric Cantona’s statue crumbling. This was just after the Kung-Fu kick incident at Crystal Palace in January 1995.

Cartoon II:

Photo From: Azzuri, Storia della Nazionale di calcio tre volte campioni del Mondo, 1910-1983

Explanation: This cartoon references Italy’s problem Georgia Chinaglia during the 1974 World Cup. After being substituted by Pietro Anastasi in the first match vs. Haiti, Chinaglia had attacked and hurled insults towards the Italian bench. The catoon shows his coach from Lazio, Tommaso Maestrelli arriving to calm things down.

 Cartoon III:

Photo From: France Football, Issue 2679, August 12, 1997

Explanation: This cartoon shows France’s Robert Joncquet being injured in France’s match vs. Brazil in the 1958 World Cup (June 24, 1958, World Cup, Brazil 5-France 2)

 Cartoon IV:

Photo From: France Football, Issue 1972, January 24, 1984

Explanation: This cartoon shows France and Bordeaux’s Bernard Lacombe shooting their way into the League title in 1983/84.

 Cartoon V:

Photo From: Onze, Issue 157, January 1989

Explanation: This cartoon shows Bordeaux President Claude Bez as Obelix (from Asterix and Obelix comics) ahead of Bordeaux’s clashes vs. Napoli in the UEFA Cup in November-December 1988.

 Cartoon VI:

Photo From: Foot Magazine, Issue 2, May 1981

Explanation: This cartoon shows Belgium’s Wilfred van Moer.

 Cartoon VII:

Photo From: Guerin Sportivo, Issue 521 (Number 1), December 25, 1984-January 8, 1985

Explanation: This cartoon shows England’s Mark Hately at AC Milan (1984/85).

Cartoon VIII:

Photo From: Onze-Mondial, Issue 3, April 1989

Explanation: This cartoon references on the verge of missing out on the 1990 World Cup.

 Cartoon IX:

Photo From: France Football, Issue 1679, June 13, 1978

Explanation: This cartoon shows Argentina’s and Leopoldo ‘Lucky’  Luque (as the graphic Novel character Lucky Luke)’ and Argentina Manager Cesar Luis Menotti (as his horse).

Cartoon X:

Photo From: France Football, Issue 1848, September 8, 1981

Explanation: This cartoon shows France captain Michel Platini and Manager Michel Hidalgo ahead of France’s World Cup qualifier at Brussels vs. Belgium on September 9, 1981 (2-0 Belgium win).

It shows one of Platini’s Sports clothing shops, Hidalgo tells him ‘Let’s not take a beating at Brussels’ (The French term ‘veste’ stands for clothing as well as a beating).

Cartoon XI:

Photo From: World Soccer, May 1995

Explanation: This cartoon references Italian Star Roberto Baggio being rumored to join the Japanese J-League in 1995.

It shows him in a stereotypical Japanese custom.

Cartoon XII:

Photo From: France Football, Issue 2033, March 26, 1985

Explanation: This cartoon references Tottenham Hotspur’s elimination in the quarterfinals of the UEFA Cup in March 1985 at the hands of Real Madrid (showing a broken egg).

Cartoon XIII:

Photo From: Placar, Issue 631, June 26, 1982

Explanation: This diagram shows Pele’s goal vs. Italy in the Final of the 1970 World Cup (June 21, 1970, World Cup, Brazil 4-Italy 1).

Cartoon XIV:

Photo From: Foot Magazine, Issue 15, July 1982

Explanation: This diagram shows USSR’s Khoren Oganesian’s goal vs. Belgium (July 1, 1982, World Cup, USSR 1-Belgium 0)

 Cartoon XV:

Photo From: AS Color, Issue 320, July 5, 1977

Explanation: This cartoon shows Real Madrid star Pirri.

 Cartoon XVI:

Photo From: Hajduk Split, Izlazi IV, 1983

Explanation: This cartoon shows Hajduk Split goalkeeper Zoran Simovic.

 Cartoon XVII:

Photo From: (Magazine Source unknown) / Contribution From a blog viewer (special thanks to Daniel Antonio Escobar Riquelme)

Explanation: This cartoon shows West Germany Manager Helmut Schoen.

Cartoon XVIII:

Photo From: France Football, Issue 1720, March 27, 1979

Explanation: This diagram shows Moenchengladbach’s Hans-Gunther Bruns’ goal vs. Manchester City in the UEFA Cup (March 21, 1979, UEFA Cup, Borussia Moenchengladbach 3-Manchester City 1)

Old Match Photographs-Part 30a

Photo From: Fussball Magazin, Issue 5, September October 1979

(Denmark and Borussia Moenchengladbach’s Allan Simonsen and England and SV Hamburg’s Kevin Keegan)

Photo From: World Soccer, September 1961

(Brian Clough at Middlesbrough)

Photo From: Onze, Hors Serie 3, 1976

(Peter Osgood , September 15, 1976, UEFA Cup, Southampton 4-Olympique Marseille 0)

Photo From: Mondial, old series, Issue 10, November 1977

(Maxime Bossis and Ruben Cano, November 2, 1977, Champions Cup, Atletico Madrid 2-Nantes 1)

Photo From: Start1988_june06_№24

(Italy Manager Azeglio Vicini and Paolo Maldini)

Photo From: Sport Illustrierte-Fussball Woche, July 5, 1982

(West Germany Manager Juup Derwall and Horst Hrubesch)

Photo From: Sport Illuestrierte, Fussball 1984 Sonderheft

(West Germany’s Lothar Matthäus, Bernd Schuster, Matthias Herget, Ulrich Stielike, Wolfgang Dremmler and Karlheinz Förster and Belgium’s Eddy Voordeckers, February 29, 1984, Belgium 0-West Germany 1)

Photo From: Sport Bild, Issue 43, October 21, 1998

(Kaiserlautern and Czech Republic’s Miroslav Kadlec)

Photo From: Sport 80, Volume 18, Issue 6, February 8-14, 1984

(Morten Olsen of Anderlecht and Denmark)

Photo From: Soccer Monthly, Annual 1983

(Frank McGarvey of Celtic Glasgow)

Photo From: Soccer Journal, May 1996

(Bryan Robson , Peter Beardsley and Paul Gascoigne)

Photo From: England, The Complete Post-War Record, Author Mike Payne

(Duncan Edwards and Bobby Robson in an England Training session, November 1957)

Photo From: Soccer International, September 1993

(Peter Beardsley at Everton)

Photo From: Aston Villa _ 20 novembre 1982

(Manchester United’s Scottish defender Gordon McQueen)

Photo From: Official Match Programme,  Scotland v England, 1984

(Joe Jordan, May 18, 1974, Home Championship, Scotland 2-England 0)

Photo From: Planete Foot, April 1996

(Italy’s Paolo Maldini)

Photo From: Placar, Issue 422, June 16, 1978

(Brazil’s Oscar during the 1978 World Cup)

Photo From: Miroir du footbal _ 1 juin 1974

(Franz Beckenbauer and Giorgio Chinaglia, February 26, 1974, Italy 0-West Germany 0)

Photo From: kicker_WM-Sonderheft_1970

(October 22, 1969, World Cup Qualifier, West Germany 3-Scotland 2)

Photo From: Hurra Juventus 1971 #08 agosto

(Juventus Manager Cestmir Vycpalek with Silvio Longobucco, Helmut haller and Fernando Viola, 1971/72)

Photo From: Guerin Sportivo-La Grande Storia Del Calcio Italiana-1923-1924

(Italy’s Virgilio Levratto during the 1924 Olympics)

Photo From: France Football, Issue 1656, January 3, 1978

(Ruud Geels at Ajax Amsterdam)

Photo From: (Magazine Source unknown) / Contribution From a blog viewer (special thanks to Daniel Antonio Escobar Riquelme)

(Hugo Gatti and Boca Juniors’ teammates with the Copa Libertadores)

Photo From: Football Magazine , Issue 11, December 1960

(Raymond Kopa of Reims and Racing Club Paris’ Roger Marche)

Photo From: El Grafico Nª 2440 12-07-1966

(Argentina’s Hugo Gatti , Silvio Marzolini and Omar Pastoriza)

Photo From: Don Balon, Issue 1, October 7, 1975

(Barcelona and Peru’s Hugo Hugo Sotil)

Photo From: Calcio 2000, Issue 38, February 2001

(Laurent Blanc at Internazionale Milano, 2000/01)

Photo From: British clubs in Europe - programs\1970.09.23. Arsenal - Lazio Roma (Fairs Cup)

(Arsenal’s Scottish goalkeeper Bob Wilson)

Photo From: Bild am Sonntag-EM 1972 Viertelfinale

(Juup Heynckes, October 10, 1971, EC Qualifier, Poland 1-West Germany 3)

Photo From: AS Color, Issue 67, August 29, 1972

(Gunter Netzer wearing an exchanged CSKA Sofia shirt, August 23, 1972, Trofeo Joan Gamper, Borussia Moenchengladbach 3-CSKA Sofia 2)

Trivia and Facts-Part 31

1- German Striker Rudi Voeller was born with one foot slightly shorter than the other. Apparently, when he was young a doctor had even suggested to break both of his legs so that they could both grow at the same height.

Thankfully his parents did not sanction this gruesome suggestion.

Photo From: Onze-Mondial, Issue 28, May 1991

(Rudi Voller followed by Paul Gascoigne, July 4, 1990, World Cup, West Germany 1-England 1)

2-When Russia and Spartak Moscow midfielder Alexander Mostovoi joined Portugal’s Benfica in early 1992, he almost immediately ‘married’ a Russian girl with Portuguese citizenship, so that he would not be considered a foreign player.

Note: I had already posted this once on a different soccer forum a few years back, but it’s worth repeating

Photo From: Onze-Mondial, Issue 69, October 1994

(Alexander Mostovoi in his days with Strasbourg, 1994/95)

3- A few years after the 1974 World Cup, Giorgio Chinaglia disclosed that the 19 other members of the Italy squad (except Facchetti, Rivera , Mazzola) had decided to tell Italy Manager Ferrucio Valcareggi to drop Rivera and Mazzola. However, in the last minute the other players backed down.

Photo From: Azzurri, Storia della Nazionale di calcio tre volte campioni del Mondo, 1910-1983

(Gianni Rivera and Sandro Mazzola)

Photo From: Mondial, new series, issue 17, August 1981

(Giorgio Chinaglia with New York Cosmos)

4- On August 2, 1993, Brazilian substitute goalkeeper Armelino Donizetti Quagliato ‘Zetti’ and Bolivian Miguel Ángel Rimba were temporarily suspended after dope tests revealed traces of cocaine.

These were follwing tests conducted after the World Cup Qualifier at La Paz on July 25, 1993 that Bolivia won 2 to 0.

Both players inisisted they had been drinking tea with coco leaves, a remedy for altitude sickness.

Eventually FIFA cleared both players on August 16, 1993.

Photo from: France Football, Issue 2411 , June 24, 1992 

(Sao Paulo and Brazil goalkeeper Zetti)

Photo from: Soccer Illustrated, March / April 1994

(Colombia’s Mauricio Serna and Bolivia’s Miguel Rimba, February 20, 1994, Joe Robbie Cup, Colombia 2-Bolivia 0)

5- During the first leg of the UEFA Cup matchups between West German clubs Stuttgart and Koln on November 26, 1980 (3 to 1 Stuttgart win), Stuttgart’s Karl-Heinz Forster made a dangerous foul on Koln’s Stefan Engels.

K.H. Foerster was already carrying a yellow card from previous rounds and would have automatically missed the second leg.

Just as Swedish referee Rolf Ericsson was about to pull out his card, K.H. Forster hid behind the other Stuttgart players and his brother Bernd presented himself in front of the referee and showed his number.

The referee was fooled and Bernd received the card instead of Karl-Heinz.

After the match in the dressing room, the brothers, their teammates and friendly journalists had a good laugh about the incident.

However, UEFA were alerted and suspended Bernd with four matches and Karl-Heinz with Five.

The brothers were incensed with the lengths of the suspensions, Karl-Heinz remarked that it is incumbent upon the referee to not to make such a mistake, while Bernd remarked that length of suspensions for acts of brutality that cause injuries is less than what they received.

Photo from: Onze, Issue 106, October 1984

(Bernd Forster in action for West Germany)

Photo from: Onze, Issue 84, December 1982

(Karl-Heinz Forster with Stuttgart)