Sandro Mazzola Football player
Alessandro ("Sandro") Mazzola (Italian pronunciation: [ˈsandro matˈtsɔla]; born 8 November 1942) is an Italian former football player, who played as a forward and in several offensive midfield positions. He is the son of Italian footballing legend Valentino Mazzola, who was killed in the Superga air disaster in 1949, and the most renowned Italian football player of the 1940s, winning five consecutive Serie A titles with Torino. Sandro Mazzola played for the highly successful Inter Milan team known as "La Grande Inter", during the 60s, and he is widely regarded as one of the greatest Italian football players of all time, and as one of the best players of his generation, placing 2nd in the 1971 Ballon d'Or.With the entire career of seventeen seasons played only for Internazionale, he holds the honor of being a one-club man, winning four Serie A titles (1963, 1965, 1966 and 1971), two European Cups (1964 and 1965) and two Intercontinental Cups (1964 and 1965), also winning the Serie A top-scorer award during the 1964-65 season, and reaching the Coppa Italia final during the 1964-65 season, narrowly missing out on a treble with the club in 1965. With the Italian national side, Mazzola won the European Championship in 1968, also reaching the 1970 World Cup Final. He currently works a football analyst and commentator on the Italian National television station RAI.
