Timeline Sandro Mazzola

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• 1949 Superga takes his father Valentino Mazzola dies with the whole Grande Torino team Sandro was six. The plane carrying the champions of Italy hit the hillside basilica in fog.
• 1960 Mazzola joins Inter Signed as a teenager by the club he never left Torino had first claim on Valentino's son. Inter got him instead, and kept him for seventeen years.
• 1961 First-team debut Against Juventus, aged 18 Helenio Herrera had begun building the side that became known as the Grande Inter.
• 1963 First Serie A title The first of four with Inter Herrera's catenaccio, with Mazzola as the forward who made it more than defensive.
• 1964 Top scorer in the European Cup Seven goals in the winning campaign He was 21, and the best forward in Europe that season.
• 1964 Two goals against Real Madrid in the European Cup final Inter 3 Real Madrid 1, in Vienna Puskás swapped shirts with him afterwards and said: you are worthy of your father Valentino.
• 1964 The Intercontinental Cup Inter beat Independiente over three matches The first of two world titles in two years.
• 1965 Top scorer in Serie A Seventeen goals European top scorer one season, Italian top scorer the next.
• 1965 A second European Cup Inter 1 Benfica 0, at the San Siro Back-to-back European titles, won at home in front of 80,000.
• 1967 Defeat in Lisbon Celtic 2 Inter 1 - the end of the Grande Inter Mazzola scored the opening penalty. Celtic became the first British club to win the European Cup.
• 1968 European champions with Italy Italy beat Yugoslavia in a replayed final in Rome Italy's first major trophy since 1938, and Mazzola's only international title.
• 1970 The Game of the Century Italy 4 West Germany 3 after extra time, in the Azteca Mazzola played the whole of the first half in the staffetta arrangement with Rivera.
• 1970 The World Cup final Brazil 4 Italy 1 Named in the team of the tournament. Rivera was given six minutes of the final, which settled nothing.
• 1971 A fourth Serie A title Under Giovanni Invernizzi The last league title of his career, eight years after the first.
• 1972 A third European Cup final, lost to Ajax Ajax 2 Inter 0 in Rotterdam, both goals Cruyff Catenaccio against total football. The match is usually treated as the end of an era.
• 1977 Mazzola retires 565 appearances and 158 goals, all for Inter Seventeen years at one club, four league titles, two European Cups and two world titles.
• 1995 Back at Inter as general manager After years as a RAI commentator He stayed in the game as an analyst for Italian television for the rest of his life.
• 2026 Sandro Mazzola dies Aged 83, at Vedano al Lambro, after a long illness Inter announced it. He had turned a monumental surname into a career entirely his own.