Beccalossi, Altobelli heartbroken: "I can’t, I’m torn"

Alessandro Altobelli will not be able to make it back in time to attend the funeral of his friend Evaristo Beccalossi, the Inter flag bearer who died at age 69. The former Nerazzurri striker tried everything to make it in time for the funeral, scheduled to take place in Brescia at the Conversion of St. Paul’s, but he couldn’t make it.

Spillo is currently in Kuwait where he collaborates as a pundit in a local TV station that broadcasts Serie A matches: “I am forced to give up and I am distraught – these are the words to Corriere della Sera -. There are no flights, to get to Kuwait after all it had taken me two days: I had been eight hours in Istanbul, where I had a stopover, resting on a chair. I’m stuck, there are no solutions.”

With Beccalossi, Altobelli formed the 1980 Nerazzurri scudetto pair. “What united us? The deep friendship. And then on the field we understood each other on the fly,” Altobelli told Ansa.”

I arrived at Brescia in 1974: he played in the Primavera team that would later win the Scudetto, I played a few games with them and then went up to the first team. We shared everything: the teams, first Brescia and then Inter, the matches, the after-matches. When we quarreled with someone we backed each other.”

“He was underestimated. But when he was on his day he was unreachable. At San Siro people came to see him, not Inter. He brought street soccer back to the Serie A grounds. I always went out of my way for everyone to understand his skill. He had his own style, and if you didn’t understand it you had a hard time keeping up with him. I did from the beginning, and that’s how our understanding was born.”