In 1994, Antonio Benarrivo, a player for the club "Parma," was invited to join the Italian national team to participate in the knockout stage of the World Cup held in the United States. At that time, Italy reached the final but lost in a penalty shootout after Roberto Baggio's decisive shot (along with misses by other Italians, including Franco Baresi) missed the target, resulting in defeat for the "Azzurri."
Benarrivo still cannot forget that failure. "This is an endless despair.
Constant pain. I think this feeling will never go away.
That defeat, that sorrowful day, feels like a horrific movie," Benarrivo said in an interview with pianetamilan.it. Later, in 2006, the Italian national team managed to defeat France in a penalty shootout to become World Cup champions.
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