European football champion Sandro Mazzola dies aged 83

Sandro Mazzola, Italian footballer and European champion in 1968, has died at the age of 84. The death of the player was reported by Milan Inter on its page in the social network X.

Mazzola spent his entire professional career with Inter from 1961 to 1977. Together with the club, he became the champion of Italy four times, twice won the European Champions Cup, the predecessor of the modern Champions League, and twice won the Intercontinental Cup. In the 1964/1965 season he was recognized as the best scorer of the Italian championship.

For the Italian national team, Mazzola played 70 matches and scored 22 goals. As part of the national team, he became European champion in 1968 and won silver at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, where the Italians lost in the final to the Brazilian national team led by Pele.