Gigi Riva at home Cagliari in 2015 | photo: AP
Riva was taken to a hospital in Cagliari. According to the copper, he underwent tests which showed that he would have to undergo heart surgery. After a few hours, however, she started talking about his death.
Italian football mourned because a true national monument had left us. I am saddened and deeply saddened, said Italian football fan Gabriele Gravina. The federation hastily arranged a minute’s silence before the second half of the day’s Super Cup final between Napoli and Inter Milan in Rijd. Riva’s memory will be honored by footballers in Italy this weekend.
Luigi Riva as the Italian representative in 1968
I lost my brother, he told the Sky Sport television station that Cagliari goalkeeper Enrico Albertosi was just celebrating with Riva and the two great national team players. We spent many years together, sleeping in the same room. I lost someone dear to me. We talked on the phone today too. I didn’t know I had heart problems, Albertosi declared.
It’s a huge loss, it also killed a great bird, said the famous goalkeeper Dino Zoff to the ANSA agency. I have so much going on with Gigi. We were together for the war, then we won the European championship in 1968 and continued with the national team until 2000, he was the trainer and he was the manager. We had a great relationship, it was impossible not to be friends with him, declared Zoff.
Riva played 42 matches for the national team and scored 35 goals, which is still an Italian record. One of the best and most popular Italian players of all time was there for Cagliari throughout his career. From 1963, he played for him for 13 seasons, led him to the first league and in 1970 helped him to the only title so far. With 156 goals, he is the club’s top scorer. He was its chairman until his death.
Gigi Riva from Italy heads the 1970 World Cup match against Brazil, followed by Pel.
Tikrt reigned supreme in the Italian league. In the Zlat mo best football player in Europe poll, he finished second in 1969 and third a year later.
In 1988 and 2013, he was involved in the implementation of the Italian national team and was at the triumph at the World Cup in Germany in 2006.
2024-01-22 19:56:40
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