"A Century of Blue" exhibition: Dino Zoff's boxing gloves stolen in Fiumicino
They were of the same UhlSport model worn by the former Friulian champion at the 1982 World Cup in Spain: they were displayed with other memorabilia
Dino Zoff, here with the head of state Sergio Mattarella (archive)
A pair of Dino Zoff gloves of the model that the Azzurri goalkeeper used in the 1982 World Cup season in Spain were stolen from the "Un Century d'Azzurro" exhibition displayed at the Hilton Rome Airport for a charity evening.
«It is the first time that we have suffered such a serious theft in five years of activity - says Aldo Rossi Merighi, promoter of Un Secolo d'Azzurro -. Zoff's gloves were a highlight of our collection of over 500 memorabilia from 1870 to 2023."
Gray and black with a fiery red palm, in homage to Spain, the gloves with the large UhlSport logo on the back were produced for Zoff who was about to play and win his last world championship and were then used by the goalkeeper also in the next season at Juventus .
A pair of gloves used at the World Cup are kept in the Football Museum of Coverciano, while the one stolen yesterday – Rossi Merighi has been informing for just over a month – enriched the exhibition Un Secolo d'Azzurro.
