{"id":71930,"date":"2026-09-19T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2026\/09\/19\/famed-inter-milan-and-italy-forward-mazzola-dies\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T05:00:00","slug":"famed-inter-milan-and-italy-forward-mazzola-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2026\/09\/19\/famed-inter-milan-and-italy-forward-mazzola-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Famed Inter Milan and Italy forward Mazzola dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Italy forward Sandro Mazzola, who spent all 17 years of his senior career at Inter Milan, has died at the age of 83, the club said on Saturday.       Mazzola, considered a club icon at Inter, scored 158 goals in 565 appearances, helping them win four Serie A titles and two European Cups. He was part of the Italy side that won the Euros in 1968 and reached the World Cup final in Mexico two years later.       &#8220;Sandro Mazzola was one of the greatest footballers in history. Not only in the history of the Nerazzurri,&#8221; Inter said in a statement on their official website, using a nickname for the team. &#8220;He was Inter\u2019s history: he joined the club as a boy and never left it.&#8221;       Mazzola was 6 years old when his father Valentino, also an Italy international, died in the Superga air disaster, a plane crash in May 1949 that killed the entire Torino team on their way back from a match in Lisbon.       At 18, Mazzola made his senior debut when Inter fielded their youth side in a match against<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Italy forward Sandro Mazzola, who spent all 17 years of his senior career at Inter Milan, has died at the age of 83, the club said on Saturday. 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