Jul 10, 2026 · 30 min · 11 segments
The World Cup has seen players, coaches and matches that will forever stay in memory but what about those moments that fly under the radar? Well, in this episode Mark and Marcus explore some of what…
Mark PougatchHost
Marcus BucklandHost
I'm gonna tee us off with somebody that our generation remember extremely well, who won the Golden Boot in the World Cup in 1990 when he scored six goals, which were six-sevenths of the goals he scored for his country.
He's, he'd never scored for his country before the World Cup, scored six in a glorious three weeks, scored one that autumn, and barely played for his country, and never scored for his country again.
Toto Salvatore Schillaci, the Sicilian, small, quick, agile, mobile, opportunistic.
And whenever you say to people Schillaci, they go, "Oh, the one with the m- slightly mad staring eyes." And, and, and it's a brilliant story because, uh, he's very sadly no longer with us.
He died a couple of years ago, age 59, of cancer, and you would not have recognized him at the end of his life because he had a brand-new haircut.
Now, Marcus, we mustn't, uh, make light of that because you and I at our age, most things are falling off us, but we still do have our hair, so we probably don't quite appreciate what it's like when someone goes, "I need a new barnet." But he definitely had that.
And in Sicily as well obviously had the, the undertones and the connotations of the Mafia, and the north would look down on the south.
In pitches, this Sicilian who j- who'd just got a move to Juve the season before from a team in Sicily called Messina, had a very good season, uh, scored 15 goals in the league, which, uh, which is some going in Serie A, and then is literally the last pick in the Italia '90 squad but doesn't expect to play, Marcus.
As I say, up front they had Vialli- Uh, they had Cannavaro, uh, they had Mancini, and of course, playing in the number 10 role as well, they had the brilliant Roberto Baggio.
In the very first game against, um, uh, against, uh, Austria, Cannavaro comes off, um, 'cause they cannot get a breakthrough, Italy, and Schillaci comes on, and he scores.
In fact, his teammate at Juventus, Stefano Tacconi, who was one of the reserve goalkeepers, said to him, "Get ready to go on 'cause you're going to score." And three minutes later, he does, and they win one-nil.
He's still on the bench for the second game, where they scrape to a one-nil victory against the USA.
I'm gonna tee us off with somebody that our generation remember extremely well, who won the Golden Boot in the World Cup in 1990 when he scored six goals, which were six-sevenths of the goals he scored for his country.
He's, he'd never scored for his country before the World Cup, scored six in a glorious three weeks, scored one that autumn, and barely played for his country, and never scored for his country again.
Toto Salvatore Schillaci, the Sicilian, small, quick, agile, mobile, opportunistic.
And whenever you say to people Schillaci, they go, "Oh, the one with the m- slightly mad staring eyes." And, and, and it's a brilliant story because, uh, he's very sadly no longer with us.
He died a couple of years ago, age 59, of cancer, and you would not have recognized him at the end of his life because he had a brand-new haircut.
Now, Marcus, we mustn't, uh, make light of that because you and I at our age, most things are falling off us, but we still do have our hair, so we probably don't quite appreciate what it's like when someone goes, "I need a new barnet." But he definitely had that.
And in Sicily as well obviously had the, the undertones and the connotations of the Mafia, and the north would look down on the south.
In pitches, this Sicilian who j- who'd just got a move to Juve the season before from a team in Sicily called Messina, had a very good season, uh, scored 15 goals in the league, which, uh, which is some going in Serie A, and then is literally the last pick in the Italia '90 squad but doesn't expect to play, Marcus.
As I say, up front they had Vialli- Uh, they had Cannavaro, uh, they had Mancini, and of course, playing in the number 10 role as well, they had the brilliant Roberto Baggio.
In the very first game against, um, uh, against, uh, Austria, Cannavaro comes off, um, 'cause they cannot get a breakthrough, Italy, and Schillaci comes on, and he scores.
In fact, his teammate at Juventus, Stefano Tacconi, who was one of the reserve goalkeepers, said to him, "Get ready to go on 'cause you're going to score." And three minutes later, he does, and they win one-nil.
He's still on the bench for the second game, where they scrape to a one-nil victory against the USA.
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