Italian Luigi ‘Gigi’ Rivalegendary striker Cagliari and the Italian national team’s all-time top scorer, He died this Monday at the age of 79. at Brotzu Hospital CagliariHe was hospitalized this Sunday due to a heart attack.

Italian football is in mourning again. The most important striker of the team was added this Monday to the recent deaths of Gianluca Vialli and Sinisa Mihajlovic. ‘Azzurra’ all-time top scorer with 35 goals in 42 appearances, 2 goals more than Giuseppe Meazza and 4 goals more than Adolfo Baloncieri.

That same Monday, about an hour before his death, the hospital to which he was admitted issued a medical bulletin that revealed a certain optimism when talking about a patient who needed cardiac intervention but was not in critical condition.

‘Gigi’ (Leggiuno, Lombardy, 7 November 1944), ‘nickname’Tuono rhombusSomething like ‘thunder’, ‘Cagliari’ was the current honorary president of Cagliari, the club of his life, for whom he made 315 appearances and scored 164 goals during his career from 1962 to 1976.

He took over the club Sardinia In his golden age, in the age when he was growing his single life ‘Scudetto’ from the showcases of the 1969-70 season.

He made his debut for Italy in 1965, won the 1968 European Cup and 1970 Mexican World Cup championwhere he scored the decisive goal to advance to the final.

Moreover it was Part of the ‘Azzurra’ coaching staff from 1990 to 2013He participated in the World Cup held in Germany in 2006, which Italy won.

There are many Italian teams mourning the death of one of the ‘Calcio’ legends. The first one is his CagliariThe Sardinian team will forever remind her of this: “GIGI RIVA forever”, expressed on account ‘X’.

‘Fiore’, Inter, Udinese and Roma, as well as many others, also joined in expressing their condolences.

Also some legends Dino Zoff: “I lost a very good friend, we had a long life together. From military service to many memories in the national team. Infinite sadness, I’m so sorry, I can’t talk.”

And the President of the Government, Giorgia Meloni: It was published in ‘X’ magazine as follows: “A great athlete who left his mark on the history of football and our team has passed away. May the world be a light to you, champion.”