{"id":486673,"date":"2024-09-18T05:36:33","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T09:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=486673"},"modified":"2024-09-18T05:45:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T09:45:04","slug":"legendary-italian-striker-schillaci-dies-aged-59","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/legendary-italian-striker-schillaci-dies-aged-59\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Italian striker Schillaci dies aged 59"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salvatore &#8220;Toto&#8221; Schillaci, the former Italy and Juventus striker who captured the hearts of football fans during the 1990 World Cup, has passed away at the age of 59.<\/p>\n<p>Schillaci was a breakout star in the tournament, held in Italy, where he won the Golden Boot after scoring six goals, including key strikes in the semi-final against Argentina and Italy&#8217;s third-place win over England.<\/p>\n<p>His expressive celebrations, marked by wide, intense eyes, became one of the most iconic images of that World Cup.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"it\">Ciao Tot\u00f2 \ud83d\udc99<br \/>\nEroe delle Notti Magiche <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UQmGw2ws6p\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/UQmGw2ws6p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nazionale Italiana \u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f (@Azzurri) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Azzurri\/status\/1836325854747443259?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Schillaci&#8217;s performances also earned him the Golden Ball as the tournament&#8217;s best player, and he finished as the runner-up in the 1990 Ballon d&#8217;Or, second only to West Germany&#8217;s World Cup-winning captain, Lothar Matth\u00e4us.<\/p>\n<p>Schillaci&#8217;s journey to stardom began as a substitute in Italy&#8217;s opening game, where he came off the bench to score the match-winner in a 1-0 victory against Austria. However, after his 1990 triumph, Schillaci&#8217;s international career quickly waned, with just one more goal for Italy and no further appearances in major tournaments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salvatore &#8220;Toto&#8221; Schillaci, the former Italy and Juventus striker who captured the hearts of football fans during the 1990 World Cup, has passed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":486675,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18393],"news_category":[138,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[18440],"acf":{"announce":"The 1990 World Cup goal scorer lost the battle with colorectal cancer ","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486678,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486673\/revisions\/486678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486673"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=486673"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=486673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}