Roberto Baggio: “I will never forget USA ’94. In one fell swoop I lost three things”

During a long interview granted to Sky, Roberto Baggio he returned to that cursed penalty kick in July 1994, when Italy lost the World Cup final against Brazil: “I’ll never forget it. It was the dream I had as a child, I always had this goal in front of me. As I’ve said a thousand times before , I dreamed about the final against Brazil every night.
Then it came and it ended in the most absurd way…
I kicked that penalty with the usual serenity, I beat it to displace the goalkeeper and it happened… I hit a lot, but a high one… no, it’s not my characteristic.
A memory that mitigates it? No, you don’t delete that stuff there.
When I lost the World Cup in one fell swoop, I lost the World Cup, the second Ballon d’Or and the title of best player in the world: three things in one fell swoop.”