Italy’s Gianluca Pagliuca Reveals Shocking Truth Behind 1994 World Cup Final Heartbreak and Lost Dreams
Italy would progress to the final, where Pagliuca produced one of the tournament’s iconic moments when he kissed his glove and tapped the post against Brazil after Mauro Silva’s shot went through his hands, hit the upright and came back to him.
“That moment changed my life,” he admits. “If that ball had gone in, we would have lost the final because of my mistake. I’d have been scarred forever. I would have kept playing, but the error would have defined me. Just think about what happened to Walter Zenga during the 1990 World Cup semi-final, when Caniggia’s header ended Italy’s dream – that World Cup should have been ours, we were the stronger side.
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