Sandro Mazzola, 83, and the Generation That Made Inter

Sandro Mazzola, the Italian forward who spent seventeen years at Internazionale and won two European Cups and four Serie A titles there, has died aged 83, the Guardian reported in an obituary published on Thursday. The paper described him as a supremely gifted forward who never played for another club.

The Guardian also records his international career, in which he earned a World Cup runners-up medal with Italy. That places him in the generation that carried Italian football through the 1960s and into the 1970s, at a club then among the strongest in Europe.

The obituary is the only item on Mazzola in today's foreign wire. Its details of his career, and the assessment of him as a player, are the Guardian's.