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OBITUARIES

“It was a pleasure to share so much with you. Alejandro was a great person who left his mark on my career and whom I learnt a lot from”
Leo Messi pays tribute to his former Argentina coach Alejandro Sabella
“Loved that man to bits. He changed me as a person and as a player, and got Liverpool back to winning trophies. RIP Boss”
Jamie Carragher with a heartfelt message to the late Gerard Houllier

PAOLO ROSSI (1956-2020)

In early December, Italian football mourned one of its most iconic figures when 1982 World Cup hero Paolo Rossi died at the age of 64, following a losing battle with lung cancer.

At an emotional funeral in Vicenza, many of his World Cup team-mates admitted that they

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