24 hours after the announcement of the death of Salvatore Schillaci Testimonies continue to arrive about the life and career on the pitch of the striker who made all of Italy fall in love in our country’s 1990 World Cup.
The last one to arrive, in chronological order, was that of Zdenek ZemanBohemian coach who coached in the 1988/1989 season Toto in his last year at Messina before the transfer to the Juventus.
“No one could be surprised by his explosion – he tells The Sports Gazette the 77 year old former coach, among many others, of Foggia, Rome, Lazio And Pescara -, not anyone who had the chance to watch even one of his games. He chased the happiness that he could only find by scoring and creating the chances to win. He was a top-notch striker. For me he was a real player, an extraordinarily good guy. A footballer with fire inside: he wanted the pitch, at any cost, even when injured. He didn’t want to give up anything. He scored with impressive ease even in the most complicated situations. You didn’t perceive what was happening, but he did: he kicked in a diabolical way, the ball took strange turns, you never understood before where it was going to end up. But the outcome was obvious, often”