https://www.ultraslazio.it/public/index.php/2014/08/30/giorgio-chinaglia/ CIVIS ROMANUS SUM Mon, 15 Jan 2018 08:48:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.38 https://www.ultraslazio.it/public/index.php/2014/08/30/giorgio-chinaglia/#comment-861 Mon, 17 Nov 2014 08:47:51 +0000 http://www.ultraslazio.it/public/?p=1103#comment-861 In the 70s when I was a teenager, I went to all the Cosmos games even the ones at Hofstra, Randalls Island and Yankee Stadium bfreoe Chinaglia came. Randy Horton, Siggy Stritzel, Werner Roth and Pele were my heroes. Then came Chinaglia with his scoring prowess. He turned the Cosmos into NASL champions and I was exhilarated. As I became a bit older and smarter in the 80s, I realized Giorgio was a very arrogant and destructive person. I guess it was no accident that he almost single-handedly ruined the Cosmos with his petty grievances and political manipulation (see the movie Once In A Lifetime for more on this). So on the one hand he obviously loved the game and I am sad that he has died. On the other hand his passing has reminded me of the ambiguous type of person he was. Maybe it is fitting that he died on April 1.

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