Pietro Anastasi is dead.
the 71-year-old surrendered the old striker on Friday after being hard hit by cancer for a long time.
Although he had long since ceased its active career, yes there are tons of football fans, who never ever have seen him play, so it was a shock for Juventus, as the news of his death came.
Not because Pietro Anastasi on the way was one of a kind in neither Juventus or Italian football. He was a formidable scorer in the 1970s, granted, but he is not among the most all time with The Old Lady.
He has also not been in the vicinity of the most played games for the club, and he represented even clubs both before and after his stay in Juventus.
But Pietro Anastasi was something else.
In the eight seasons from the arrival in 1968 was Pietruzzu, as they came to know him as in Turin, an excellent team player. Rarely had they experienced so dedicated an activist as he turned out to be.
And it was not because there was not expectations.
For sicilianeren Anastasi had scored extensively for Varese in the season up to - and even scored a goal for Italy in the final, when Gli Azzurri became european champion in the summer of 1968. Therefore, it was Juventus pay 650 million lire for the attacker, which at the time was a world record. Just a hint more than what Inter had paid for the Danish Harald Nielsen the year before.
The record kept in addition, five years, then bought FC Barcelona Johan Cruyff in Amsterdam, which is a different story.
When was the Anastasi has long since been a star of Juventus.
The Italian national team, which qualified for the WORLD cup in 1974. At the back from left to right: Romeo Benetti, Luciano spinosi, avocats,, Gianni Rivera, Dino Zoff, Francesco Morini, and Luigi Riva. Front from left: Fabio Capello, Giacinto Facchetti, Pietro Anastasi, Sandro Mazzola and Tarchisio Burgnich. Photo: Keystone/
Anastasi knocking the ball past the Haitian goalkeeper at the WORLD cup in 1974. Photo: AP/Ritzau Scanpix
He scored 130 goals in 303 matches for Juventus. It is nice, but the view is not much to fall behind over of benovelse. According to the Juventus website, he could something else, something more than to score goals.
- His courage in the fighting, his acrobatic scores and his fightervilje is it that made him an idol and able to unforgettable performances - such as the hat trick against Lazio in four minutes after starting the match on the bench, writes the club.
if you Ask passionate football fans around the world, who they know as the white Pele, they will most likely say Zico - Pelés and his brother and heir. But Juventus' fans used the same expression about Anastasi, before Zico broke through the sound barrier.
Thus appeared that a banner up the Stadio Communale, Juventus' former stadium, with the scripture 'Anastasi, the white Pelé'. A good picture of their love to the player - though the comparison might just was over the top.
He reached the winning three Italian championships, in Liverpool in 1976 and traded him for Robert Boninsegna of Inter. At the Milan rivals he had to settle for a secondary role, after which his career petered out.
He reached 25 appearances and scored eight goals for Italy. On klubplan represented the value of he for Inter, Ascoli and swiss Lugano, before he stopped his career in 1982.
He earned ago as both a youth coach and expert in tv.
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