situation somewhat strange, to say the least, to get back to San Siro in the role of coach of the opposing team which has always cheered, in which the nursery has grown and where it is military, not youth, for well twelve seasons: Walter Zenga, funny and impulsive Milan Viale Hungary born in 1960, is one of those rare cases where the child fan, changed during the teenage years in the following meetings of the curve, he envied the good fortune to be maker the destiny of their club's heart, becoming the first great promise, then most valuable player and finally genuine symbol. A dream come true that, through hard work and attention to detail allowed him to live a dream from reality: the genial instinct mixed with the excellent physical and technical skills they did elect the best goalkeeper in the world for three years in a row (1989 , 1990.1991), have awarded the best goalkeeper at the World Cup and European Championship 1988 and 1990, before being indelibly dubbed "Spiderman", they've secured a haul of 58 caps for his country that only the abstruse decision of a self-styled prophet has unfairly prevented him from Ravenna to increase. A career
constantly exposed to the limelight, like the rumored his private life: a life spent in the magical atmosphere of the roaring "Milano da eighties, where young tribe of Yuppies and Paninaro divided the capital of Lombardy in those who wore studying the clock on the wrist by managers and those who wore the Moncler under a mane dipped into the gel. Walter, of the Milan-edge, it was a bit 'emblem: responsive and confident in goal as when they threw in the capture of a woman, charismatic and never dull in the field as in the post-game statements or frequent appearances on TV. The only drawback of this brilliant running track, perhaps, is the fact that he had not won, at a collective level, in comparison to the striking talent available to the following order: a title, one Italian Super Cup and two UEFA Cup (trophy at least considered of undoubted prestige up to 1996 / '97 season from which the rule will fire access in the Champions League teams not allowed to well up holders of the bay national), the second of those conquered in the sight of his audience by praising a benefit from undisputed number one. A triumphant but thirty-four, that unforgettable night license plate May 11, 1994, bore with him the bitter awareness and his eyes moistened with tears of those who knew that he had played, because questionable choice of top management, the race which marked the ending of the relationship with his beloved Inter shirt.
One championship only, therefore, but not a title any means a security that, with regard to tournaments to eighteen teams, is still apostrophe with the term "record" (58 points earned: the result of 26 wins, 6 draws, 2 losses) and remembered for the powerful businesses that the club's president Ernesto Pellegrini, mathematically champions Italy have already quintultima the day, was able to put together. An extraordinary war machine, the whole of 1988 / '89, that powder before Zenga former ball boy and had a major strand in: both for what concerns the yield offered on the green rectangle and for the quality of driver, in that amazing year goalkeeper Milanese proved decisive in the same way of the future Golden Ball Lothar Matthaeus, the top scorer Aldo Serena, of his world champion Beppe Bergomi. The skillful and strategic direction of the expert Giovanni Trapattoni, the coach "evergreen" as the popular radio hit at the time burned and hearts, of course, did the rest.
always decisive, always on the front page, always in touch with history: which will help to win the Beloved his thirteenth tricolor erecting a wall in front of his door, while another in the same year of grace, collapsed under the blows of liberating the people of Berlin. Even for this, as they sing the Nerazzurri supporters, "there is only a Walter Zenga."
(Published 20/10/2008 on the site www.calciatori-online.com )
Walter Zenga
Born in Milan 28/04 / 1960
Goalkeeper
at Inter from 1982 to 1994 admissions
Total-Goals: 473-0
Wins: 1 title (1988 / '89), a Super Italian (1989), 2 UEFA Cups (1990 / '91 1993 / '94)
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