Sandro Mazzola, 83, Dies: Inter and Italy Read the Obituary Abroad

Sandro Mazzola, the Internazionale forward who won two European Cups and four Serie A titles across 17 years with his only club, has died at 83, according to an obituary published by the Guardian. The paper describes him as a supremely gifted forward and records that he also took a World Cup runners-up medal with Italy. He played for no other senior club.

That single-club career is the detail the foreign obituary leans on. In an era when the best Italian players were beginning to move, and when the Milan clubs were the country's shop window to Europe, Mazzola's 17 years at San Siro made him the fixed point of a side that won the continent twice.

The Guardian's account places him in the great Inter generation, and notes the runners-up medal with the national team rather than a winner's one. For readers abroad, it is a reminder that Italy's most decorated club careers have not always ended in a World Cup.