Table of Contents
'In the Blue, Painted Blue' 1
You can praise God with a football, too 5
Passing the ball Aldo Mancini 12
Wrong address 18
Football intelligence Marino Perani 22
The Boy 28
The best years Marco Macina 34
1981 39
I'll play him Tarcisio Burgnich 44
Enfant prodige Franco Colomba 50
Mister Five Billion 54
'You will be Sampdoria's standard-bearer' Paolo Bórea 59
Genoa for us 67
When I was 19 I was just the same Graeme Souness 77
Azzurro pallido 83
A tought nut Azeglio Vicini 93
Unfinished beauty 98
'First, you win the scudetto, then you can leave' Pietro Vierchowod 107
The Snow White Club 113
We complemented each other Gianluca Vialli 120
The thing 129
He gave it all for that jersey Marco Lanna 139
A wasted chance 144
As good as gold Fausto Pari 154
The long goodbye 160
He needed to be loved Moreno Mannini 174
Rome, a beautiful end 180
Football is his life Sven-Göran Eriksson 195
The Ledge 200
A season of living dangerously 207
Number one Enrico Chiesa 218
Challenges 223
Run, and never stop Andrea Mancini 229
The dawn of a new era 235
Great charisma Javier Zanetti 246
To win and to amaze 251
He was born a manager Sergio Giosuè Viganò 264
And then the sheikh called 270
A masterpiece Pietro Massimo Battara 280
Just the beginning 285
'Bobby Goal' Attilio Lombardo 290
Noisy neighbours 295
Stepping up in class Roberto Martínez 304
94 minutes, an entire lifetime 309
A winning frame of mind Pablo Zabaleta 314
Absolutely amazing 319
I like winning Roberto Mancini 324
Bibliography 333
Acknowledgements 337
