Evening Standard
Paolo Rossi dead: Italian football great and World Cup winner dies aged 64
Paolo Rossi, the hero of Italy’s 1982 World Cup-winning campaign, has died at the age of 64. News of the former football star’s death was announced on Thursday by Italian TV channel RAI Sport, for whom Rossi had been working as a pundit. “Such terribly sad news: Paolo Rossi has left us,” said RAI Sport presenter Enrico Varriale, who did not disclose the cause of death.












