One of the many bright lights of the 1990 World Cup went out this week.
While the football did not always live up to expectations, the tournament will rightly be fondly remembered for the incredible storylines and characters which made such a lasting mark.
How could we forget the wide-eyed ecstasy of ‘Toto’, the celebrating striker who had only won his first cap for Italy three months earlier? A man who had crept into the finals through the back door and left as a national hero with the Golden Boot. Sure enough, just two minutes later, a thumping header won the game. It was his first touch at the World Cup. But it was what followed that captured the imagination.
Schillaci was eventually given a place in the first XI against Czechoslovakia alongside a player who had remained on the bench for the opening two games – Baggio. Both scored and cemented their place in the Azzurri for the knockout stages, usurping the established front two of Vialli and Carnevale. Italy failed to qualify for the European Championship two years later, and Schillaci had long disappeared from the international stage by the time of the next World Cup in the USA.
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