Sandro Mazzola, Who Played the 1970 Final in Sight of Sicily, Dies at 83

Sandro Mazzola, the Italian forward who won two European Cups and four Serie A titles in seventeen years with Internazionale, his only club, has died aged 83, according to an obituary published by the Guardian. The newspaper describes him as a supremely gifted forward and records his part in the Italy side that reached the 1970 World Cup final.

Mazzola's career belonged to Milan, where he spent his whole playing life at San Siro. The Guardian's account places him at the centre of the Internazionale side of the 1960s that won consecutive European Cups, and notes the World Cup runners-up medal he took with Italy in Mexico in 1970.

His death removes one of the last principal figures of that Inter generation. The Guardian's obituary is the foreign record of it; Italian football's own reckoning of his place will be made at home, in the language and the archives of the country he played for.