FILE PHOTO: Football - 1982 FIFA World Cup Final - Italy v West Germany - Estadio Santiago Bernabeu, Madrid - 11/7/82 Paolo Rossi scores a goal for Italy. Mandatory Credit: Action Images
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Paolo Rossi once described his performance at the 1982 World Cup, where he etched his name into football folklore, as "personal redemption" from a match-fixing scandal, even though he always said he had nothing to atone for.
Rossi, who died at the age of 64 early on Thursday, had been handed a three-year ban in the fallout from the "Totonero" scandal in 1980, but when the sanction was reduced to two years it gave him the opportunity to rebuild his reputation.
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