All the detail of every game that Diego played in during the 84/85 Italian season can be found below; including how many goals he scored and what exact shirt he wore in each game. The shirt illustrations have been kindly provided by our friends at Museum of Jerseys.
Date | Opponent | H/A? | Score | Goals | Shirt | Photo | Video |
Thu 02 Aug 84 | Castel del Piano | A | 1 - 13 | 4 | Link | ||
Thu 09 Aug 84 | Arezzo | A | 2 - 4 | 2 | Link | ||
Sun 12 Aug 84 | Siena | A | 0 - 4 | - | Link | ||
Thu 16 Aug 84 | Livorno | A | 0 - 3 | ? | Link | ||
Fri 17 Aug 84 | Reggello | A | 0 - 9 | 2 | Link | ||
Sun 19 Aug 84 | River Plate | H | 0 - 0 | - | Link | ||
Wed 22 Aug 84 | Arezzo | H | 4 - 1 | 1 | Link | ||
Sun 26 Aug 84 | Casertana | A | 0 - 3 | 1 | Link | ||
Wed 29 Aug 84 | Perugia | A | 0 - 0 | - | Link | ||
Sun 02 Sep 84 | Pescara | A | 0 - 3 | 1 | Link | ||
Wed 05 Sep 84 | Cannes | A | 0 - 2 | 1 | Link | ||
Sun 09 Sep 84 | Fiorentina | H | 1 - 1 | - | Link | ||
Sun 16 Sep 84 | Hellas Verona | A | 3 - 1 | - | Link | ||
Sun 23 Sep 84 | Sampdoria | H | 1 - 1 | 1 | Link | ||
Sun 30 Sep 84 | Torino | A | 3 - 0 | - | Link | ||
Sun 07 Oct 84 | Como | H | 3 - 0 | 1 | Link | ||
Sun 14 Oct 84 | Lazio | A | 1 - 1 | 1 | Link | ||
Sun 21 Oct 84 | Milan | H | 0 - 0 | - | Link | ||
Sun 28 Oct 84 | Atalanta | A | 1 - 0 | - | Link | ||
Thu 1 Nov 84 | Pro Cisterna | A | 1 - 7 | 5 | Link | ||
November | Afragolese | A | ? | - | Link | ||
Sun 11 Nov 84 | Avellino | H | 0 - 0 | - | Link | ||
Sun 18 Nov 84 | Ascoli | A | 1 - 1 | - | Link | ||
Sun 25 Nov 84 | Cremonese | H | 1 - 0 | - | Link | ||
Sun 02 Dec 84 | Inter | A | 2 - 1 | - | Link | ||
Sun 16 Dec 84 | AS Roma | H | 1 - 2 | - |
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Sun 23 Dec 84 | Juventus | A | 2 - 0 | - | Link | ||
Sun 06 Jan 85 | Udinese | H | 4 - 3 | 2 | Link | ||
Sun 13 Jan 85 | Fiorentina | A | 0 - 1 | 1 | Link | ||
Sun 20 Jan 85 | Hellas Verona | H | 0 - 0 | - | Link | ||
Sun 27 Jan 85 | Sampdoria | A | 0 - 0 | - | Link | ||
Sun 10 Feb 85 | Torino | H | 2 - 1 | 1 | Link | ||
Sun 17 Feb 85 | Como | A | 1 - 1 | 1 | Link | ||
Sun 24 Feb 85 | Lazio | H | 4 - 0 | 3 | Link | ||
Wed 27 Feb 85 | Milan | H | 1 - 1 | - | Link | ||
Sun 03 Mar 85 | Milan | A | 2 - 1 | - |
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Sun 17 Mar 85 | Atalanta | H | 1 - 0 | - | Link | ||
Sun 24 Mar 85 | Avellino | A | 0 - 1 | - | Link | ||
Sun 31 Mar 85 | Ascoli | H | 1 - 1 | 1 | Link | ||
Sun 14 Apr 85 | Cremonese | A | 1 - 1 | - | Link | ||
Sun 21 Apr 85 | Inter | H | 3 - 1 | - | Link | ||
Sun 28 Apr 85 | AS Roma | A | 1 - 1 | - | Link | ||
Sun 05 May 85 | Juventus | H | 0 - 0 | - | |||
Sun 12 May 85 | Udinese | A | 2 - 2 | 2 | Link | ||
Sun 19 May 85 | Fiorentina | H | 1 - 0 | - | Link |
Regular readers of the site will know that we hold the 1990-91 Serie A season dear to our hearts in terms of kits, but it must be said that that campaign was standing on the shoulders of what went before it.
Something that was noticeable among the class of 90-91 was the diversity of brands producing kits – as well as adidas, Kappa and Umbro, there was Ennerre, of course, ABM, Erreà, Gems and Uhlsport. Go back a few years further and there was an even greater sense of democracy.
We have already looked at the kits worn by Hellas Verona as they won their sole Serie A title in 1984-85 and i Gialloblu were part of a strong ensemble cast. While they had adidas, two of the higher-profile clubs, Milan and Napoli, had Rolly Go and Linea Time respectively.
Look at the Milan kits – perhaps we’re biased but we feel that it’s hard to improve on either. We don’t know who Oscar Mondadori was or what he did and we don’t want to, but it’s a logo that sits perfectly on the stripes. The away has similarities with the France kits worn as Euro 84 was won, but the continuing of the narrow stripes down the torso is a lovely extra flourish.
Napoli, who had just signed Diego Maradona from Barcelona and so were making national waves, were on a gap year, breaking what was otherwise an 11-year spell with Ennerre. Their outfits were beautifully simple and simply beautiful, with subtle striping around the neck and cuffs. Bonus marks of course for having a straight-reversal change kit. <
Milan’s city rivals Internazionale also dabbled with a lesser-known name in the early 1980s, following a stint with Puma in kits made by Mec Sport, who distinctive logo featured a stylised butterfly.
Thankfully, these shirts have been revived by Golazzo Legends, who are bringing back the old trademarks of Rolly Go, Linea Time and Mec Sport and are now offering high-quality replicas, reproduced to pain-staking standards, complete with authentic numbering on the back.
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Anyone who attended a British school during the 1980s might recall the hell that was a nylon football shirt. Those who don’t will have worn jerseys made of polyester – or rather, polyester and cotton mixed. If you are Italian then your memories are more than likely made of acrylic. I base this assumption on the fact that school sportswear, of the sort you used to buy from department stores, reflected what actual sportspeople wore. This was certainly true in England, although I couldn’t honestly say whether the same applied in Italy. Regardless, in the 1980s Italian football shirts tended to be made from acrylic.
Pure polyester would prevail, which is not to say it is the superior fabric. Polyester is lighter and stronger, but acrylic is softer and warmer, although not so much in the wet. It has been reported that when Ennerre began using polyester, some players complained and demanded their old jersey back. (Ennerre are supposed to have devised their own compound called lanetta – ‘lana’ being Italian for wool – but their labels invariably read ‘100 % Acrylic’.)
Acrylic also colours well, which is one of the reasons why the Italian football strips of the 1980s looked as good as they did. Another is that the names and emblems of sponsors – both commercial and technical – started appearing on the tops of almost every professional team, freed from the constraints previously imposed upon them by the FIGC. Up until 1981 many clubs hadn’t even bothered appending a badge. That’s probably how people liked it – maybe in deference towards the scudetto and the coccarda – but there’s a lot to be said for well-designed insignia and congenial fonts.
Many of the technical sponsors from this period no longer exist in the same capacity, if they exist at all: firms such as Mec Sport, Tixo Sport, Linea Time, Rolly Go, Ennerre. Before A.C. Milan went full-on polyester in 1986, they teamed up with, respectively, Linea Milan, Ennerre, Rolly Go, and Gianni Rivera. In Linea Milan re-introduced a wider gauge of stripe not utilised since the early sixties. There was no commercial sponsor just yet, but they did incorporate a badge (designed by Zeta di Milano). This logo simplistically depicted the devil, in homage to Milan’s epithet – Il Diavolo. The following season Pooh Jeans came on board as patron and Linea Milan introduced red shorts, which wasn’t a great look.
When Ennerre took over from Linea in 1982 they reverted to tradition and narrowed the stripes. A.C. Milan remained with Ennerre for two seasons, sponsored first by Hitachi and then Cuore, wearing white shorts with black socks and looking all the better for it. Unbelievably, Milan were playing in Serie B at the time, but by the end of Ennerre’s tenure they were back in Serie A, having been promoted as winners of Serie B in 1983.
In 1985, just as Ray Wilkins and Mark Hateley signed for the club, Rolly Go succeeded Ennerre and carried on where their predecessor left off. The only discernible difference to the shirt was the sponsor, Oscar Mondadori. Established in 1965, Oscar Mondadori was the name given to a catalogue of affordable paperbacks published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, to be sold through newsagents, as opposed bookshops. (Fittingly, the first book they published was A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway). Quite apart from the democratising nature of its mission, Oscar Mondadori possessed a distinctive imprint that complimented the red and black stripes of Milan’s shirt. Stamp-printed in a white, curved, lowercase font, the word Oscar predominated, with its enlarged O encompassing the statuette of the same name. Rolly Go’s hexagonal ‘double arrow’ trademark and the five-pointed gold star denoting Milan’s ten championships rounded off the ensemble nicely.
A.C. Milan had a relatively good year, finishing fifth in Serie A and reaching the finals of the Coppa Italia, losing to Sampdoria 1-3 on aggregate. Unfortunately the deals with both Oscar Mondadori and Rolly Go only ran for a season. Gianni Rivera made a good go of it in 1985/86, but the bar had been set too high.
In 1986, Silvio Berlusconi completed his takeover of A.C. Milan. At the same time, Kappa stepped in as technical supplier. Kappa – a subsidiary of Maglificio Calzificio Torinese – had a limited presence in football, but a significant one, providing kit for Juventus. In what could be seen as something of a coup, in which Berlusconi himself may have played a part, Kappa furnished Milan with shirts made from polyester while continuing to dress Juventus in acrylic. And yet what will the fans who remember Mark Hateley’s headed goal against Inter in October 1984 have cared for the material the shirt was now made of?