When Donnarumma saved England's last penalty, the Italian bench boiled over, and manager Mancini and the manager and his best brother Viali hugged and cried, and there was the joy of victory and the relief of the past, as if everything was back to the heartbreaking wembley night 30 years ago.
| Italy win the title, Mancini and Vialli are finally relieved
Sure enough, Mancini mentioned it in his post-match press conference. He said: "I want to dedicate the trophy to all the Italians, as well as to Mr. Paulo Mantovani and all the Sampdoria fans who fought here with us 30 years ago, who suffered that night and today is their compensation".
Mancini mentions Paul here. Mr. Mantovani is the president of the Sampdoria club he played for during his player years, for which Mancini dedicated 15 years of playing time. Here he and his teammates (more appropriately, brothers) have created one miracle after another, and the current Italian national team coaching staff Riviali, Lombardo, Evani, Salsano, Nucari and Battara were all members of that golden Samp.
| from left: Salsano, Lombardo, Evani, Nuciari, Mancini, Vialli
Under the painstaking management of Mantovani, as well as the leadership of Mancini, Viali and others, Sampdoria reached its peak in the late 80s and early 90s, they transformed from an ordinary Italian club into a world-renowned club, the team advocated attack, played freshly, and paid more attention to the game, just like a sea breeze from Adriatic, which was completely different from the utilitarian Italian football, which also gained a large number of die-hard loyalists from all over the world.
| 9091 season, Sampdoria won the Serie A title
Many people say that today's Italian team has the shadow of the old Samp
After winning three Coppa Italia and one European Cup Winners' Cup, in the summer of 1991, Sampdoria won the first Serie A title in history, and the combination of Mancini, Vialli and Lombardo swept the Apennines, and they snatched the championship trophy from Napoli with Maradona, AC Milan with the Dutch Three Musketeers, and Inter Milan in germany, so that these giants had to bow down and bow down; the following year, They once again thrust higher in the European Champions League (the last old Champions League before the Champions League was restructured) and finally the fantastic Sampdoria were only a few minutes away from winning the trophy, also at the Wembley Stadium (old Wembley), and a free kick by Barcelona defender Koeman in the last minute of extra time shattered the Samp lads' dreams of a European title.
However, this foot is also considered to be a turning point in the fate of "Golden Samp".
If Sampdoria had won the Champions League, the club's fate might have been very different. What has also changed is the fate of this group of players
| group photo before the 1992 Champions League final
Back row: Katanic, Paliuca, Lanna, Lombardo, Serezzo, Mancini
Front row: Verjo verde, Manini, Bonnetti, Viali, Parry
In the summer of 1992, in order to maintain the financial balance, the current head of the Italian team, Samp's main striker Vialli, was sold to Juventus, and the president of Samp's brilliant founder Mantovani also died in 1993.
Mancini, as a player, after losing his father-like president and good brother Vialli in the front, almost lost the opportunity and motivation to attack the European championship again, although he brought out Two top scorers for Sampdoria, Chiesa and Montella, although Mancini won the Italian Cup with his brothers in 1994, which could not hide Mancini's later paleness in the trophy and honor. He was never able to lead Sampdoria to higher goals.
In fact, Mancini's playing career is indeed full of regrets, although the football talent is not inferior to Robert. Baggio, who has also been successful at club level and has cashed in on his talents, but his overly sensitive and arrogant personality has also allowed him to miss a lot.
Mancini, who | as a player, has always been unsuccessful in the Italian national team
In 1986, Mancini, who had almost taken the shuttle bus to Mexico for the World Cup, angered the then coach Berard Berzot because he secretly went out at night with Altoberi, and the old coach originally planned to forgive Mancini, but the arrogant Mancini refused to apologize and was eventually turned away.
In the 90-year World Cup in Italy, as Mancini's mentor and the same Sampdoria's boss, Vecchini, did not give Mancini even a minute to play, which became a permanent regret in Mancini's career, and in 1994, Mancini, who was 30 years old, originally had one last chance to participate in the World Cup, he was also willing to bow his head to Baggio as a substitute, but in a friendly match in Napoli before the World Cup, in the case of Baggio's injury and could not play, In order to cater to the southern fans in the stands, the italian coach Sacchi sent Napoli forward Zola to play, but did not give the second-placed Mancini a chance, which made Mancini intolerable and announced that he would not step into the national team in this life, at this time, the Italian national team gave Mancini only endless regrets and injuries.
Missing out and missing a step seems to have become a lingering shadow of Mancini's playing career, although mancini has been successful at the club level, but there are also some regrets, in addition to the defeat in the Champions League final, just on May 20, 1991, Sampdoria against Lecce, the game related to winning, Mancini also did not have the opportunity to appear, because in the previous round of the battle against Inter Milan's King's Hill, Mancini and Bergomi were sent off for a clash on the field.
So that's why Mancini, as a coach, is willing to communicate more with his players and is willing to give everyone a chance to play, he doesn't want the players to leave regrets like himself.
Many people say that Italy can win the European championship today, which is related to the character accumulated by the coaching staff of this team for 30 years, which is indeed true.
As the head of the Italian team, Vialli was a good partner and brother with Mancini when he was a player, and the two of them together won 3 Italian Cups, a Serie A title and a European Cup Winners' Cup for Samp, and after the defeat at Wembley in 1992, in order to maintain the financial balance of the team, in the face of the attractive conditions of juventus's 12 million Ga Serena, Zanini and Corini, Chairman Samp chose to let him go.
This is also a pain in Vialli's heart, because he never wanted to leave the team, and in Juventus, his cooperation with Baggio is not as tacit as with Mancini, even after playing for the team for many years, Viali still does not seem to adapt to life in Turin, in the summer of 1994, Silver Fox Lippi coached Juventus, the first thing Viali found Lippi to talk to was to let him help him return to Sampdoria (Lippi is also a famous Samp, player era spent at this club)
| image taken on June 9, 1990
90 World Cup in Italy
Vialli in Italy's 1-0 win over Austria
At the national team level, although Viali has played more than Mancini, but also did not reach the height of matching its strength, in the 86 World Cup he was used as a winger, in 1990 in the Italian home world, Viali was originally the main Italian striker, but helplessly played only one season in Serie A grassroots goalscorer Skirac is in a hot state, coupled with Baggio's emergence, so that Vialli's position in the national team is quite embarrassing, in 1994, Vyali, who had a bad relationship with Saki, was not even selected for the roster.
The rest of Mancini's teaching assistant team are mancini's old comrades in Samp, and they share almost the same fate.
Mancini coaching staff in the assistant coach Lombardo, the player era is also majestic, the iconic hairstyle, super breakthrough ability and sharp dribbling speed, let him get the reputation of the vulture, Lombardo easy-going and optimistic personality let him win the love of many fans, compared to Mancini, Viali, Salzano and other people came to Samp when they were very young, Lombardo only came to the team in 1989, when the team has won three Italian Cup titles, and laid the status of his own Serie A strong team, But Lombardo quickly integrated into the young team and forged deep friendships with Mancini, Vialli, Lanna, Mannini and Salzano.
| Lombardo made his debut for Italy at the 1997 Four Nations Invitational
Like Mancini and Vialli, Lombardo is also unpopular in the national team, in his same position Italy has players such as Donadoni and Rentini, Lombardo can only survive in the cracks, although he represented Italy in the 94, 98 world cup qualifiers, and 92 European Championship qualifiers, but every time to the main tournament, Lombardo was excluded, in 1992 Italy did not qualify for the European Championship, 94 World Cup Lombardo was highly called, He played the best season of his career himself, but was still abandoned by coach Sarkin for tactical issues.
In 1995, Lombardo followed Vialli, Verjoward and other old Samp teammates to join Juventus for a higher stage development, but the untimely injury before the season eventually left him behind, and he was never able to establish his main position in Juve.
Salzano, a player in Mancini's coaching staff, was also a strong midfielder, from the Sampdoria youth team, more rooted than Mancini and Vialli, who played for the Italian national youth team from 1987 to 1988, but his experience as an adult national team was very pale, and he did not even play a game.
| player era Salsano wore the number 15 shirt in Sampdoria
In 1990, Salsano may have made a decision he regretted for the rest of his life, after Samp won the Cup winners' Cup, he decided to join Roma, but a year later Sampdoria won the first Serie A title in history, standing on top of Italy, Salzano missed the opportunity to follow his mother team to win the title. The following year at Wembley, Salzano could only cheer his former teammates on tv, although in 1993 he chose to return and follow the team to win the Italian Cup that season, but then due to the death of mantovani, and the departure of Mancini, Lombardo, Verjoward and other players, Samp began his own decline, Salzano could only struggle with the few remaining old comrades on Samp's battleship, which was almost broken.
As a substitute goalkeeper in Sampdoria's coaching staff, Nuciari was originally a goalkeeper coach in the coaching staff, but after following Nuciari to the Italian national team, his role was upgraded to assistant coach.
| can't even find photos of Nuciari's matches online
His player image is more often seen in the star card
Nuciari's father is a well-known Italian goalkeeper, he himself has played for big clubs like Milan, but he is basically a substitute role, after coming to Samp, he has always worn the number 12 shirt (in the past Italy and South America, the number of substitute goalkeepers was often 12), and his career was against Giovanni. With world-class Italian nations such as Galli and Pagliuca, Nuciari has spent almost all of his career on the bench, and he also holds an alternative record in Italian football: 333 times in the Serie A squad but only 17 appearances.
At present, the full goalkeeper coach in mancini's coaching team is Battara, and batala is also a goalkeeper in the player era, born into a famous goal, his father Batara Sr. is a legendary goalkeeper in the history of Sampdoria, who played for Samp for 11 years, and Btara's youth player years were spent in the Bologna youth team, where he met his lifelong friend Roberto Mancini.
| goalkeeper Battara later played for Salernitana
This year the team has also returned to Serie A
So after Mancini joined Samp, Battara also joined the team where his father had played, but he has been on loan, only played for Samp for one season but did not play, he did not reach the height of his father in this club at all in Sampdoria, here also praises Batara's father, he is a coach with noble character, he did not nepotism because of his son playing for Samp, He even strongly recommended Pagliuca, who was still a young player in the Bologna youth team at the time, to join Samp, which directly led to his son having to leave the team, and Pagliuca later became a legendary goalkeeper of Samp and even the Italian national team.
Another assistant coach in Mancini's coaching staff, Evani, has achieved much more in his player years than Mancini's other assistant coaches, mainly because he spent most of his playing time at AC Milan and caught up with the best period in Milan, when Milan was the best club in the world. In 1993 he came to Sampdoria with Gullit, and in the last years of golden Samp, he fought alongside Mancini and established a deep friendship, but Evani's national team career was also not outstanding, perhaps italian football talent is too rich, although he played for the best club in the world, but he only played for the national team in total 15 games, in fact, the transfer to Sampdoria is also to get an absolute main position to participate in the World Cup in the United States.
| Evani was one of the 5 players who came on penalties in the 1994 World Cup final
Compared to Mancini, Vialli, Lombardo, Ewani can be said to be lucky enough to catch a shuttle to the United States, but he only made two appearances in the World Cup in the United States, the first half against Ireland, and overtime against Brazil, the rest of the time was spent on the bench, the final against Brazil, penalties were exchanged, Evani hit a penalty, but in the end it did not change Italy's regret of losing to Brazil and missing the World Cup.
It is not difficult to see that The football careers of Mancini and his Samp era have more or less left regrets, and these regrets are like fish bones stuck in the throat, which can never be released.
| may this year, the 30th anniversary of Sampdoria's victory was held
Lombardo posted a group photo of the old players having dinner after the celebration
Just in May of this year, the golden Samp players held a party to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Sampdoria's Victory in the First Division, and the members of the championship team that year, Mancini, Vialli, Lombardo, Mannini, Salsano, Verjoward, Pellegrini, Lanna, Dosena, Parry, Palyuga, Nuciari were reunited again, Mancini mentioned the Champions League final at Wembley again at the party, and he still said with regret: "We have won so many games in Wembley, Why did you lose that one?"
Friend Vialli comforted Mancini: "Everything has a first time, on the bright side, things will eventually have two results, or win, or get a chance to learn, there is no loss." "
This is how the two have been together for decades, Mancini is handsome and elegant, but sensitive and irritable at heart, while Viali looks tough (especially after shaving his head), but the heart is delicate and gentle, Mancini once said that only Viali can keep him calm.
After the defeat in the Champions League final at Wembley in 1992, in order to make a good job of the team's new and old, Mancini took the initiative to make a wedding dress for young strikers, Chiesa and Montella, under his promotion, both scored more than 20 goals in a single season to become top scorers, Bellucci and Amorusso also became very powerful strikers in Serie A, Mancini even sacrificed a lot of his own opportunities to score goals, and gave them the opportunity to take penalties.
| the two youngsters of the year, Seedorf and Chiesa
After joining Juventus, Viali became the big brother in the team, and after his teammate Fortunato suffered from cancer and underwent chemotherapy, Viali himself shaved his head and told his teammates with actions that hair is not so important, so that he can rest assured.
All kindness, selflessness, dedication, and even regret will one day be rewarded, who ever thought that Chiesa, who was promoted by Mancini to become the top scorer, now his son Chiesa Jr. shines in the Italian team, helping his father's benefactor to achieve his long-cherished wish to reach the top at Wembley.
Viali was unfortunately diagnosed with pancreatic cancer a few years ago, and after 8 months of treatment, it recurred again, and in 2019, when Viali officially came to the national team for a month, the doctor announced that the cancer cells in his body had disappeared, which may come from Fortunato's blessing in heaven, and Viali also used his actions to inspire all Italian players, no matter what difficulties they encountered, do not give up.
And lombardo, who was unsuccessful in the national team; Salsano, who missed the Samp Serie A championship trophy and the Champions League final; Evani, who regretted missing the World Cup at the Rose Bowl, Nuciari, who wore the No. 12 all his life, and Batara, who had to leave because of his father's deep righteousness, this time they made up for the regrets of the players' era with Mancini and Vialli, and fulfilled their youthful dreams.
| the coaching staff of Mancini and his old friends Samp with the trophy
Seeing this, I believe that everyone will regard the European championship trophy of Italy as a fulfillment of the great Samp of that year, and also a completion of the backbone of Mancini, Viali and so on.
Some say this is the "post-golden samp" era.
Pagliuca, who was also the main goalkeeper of the 94 and 98 World Cups in Italy, said that Mancini drew inspiration from their super Samp.
And Mancini himself said: Sampdoria is beyond everything!