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I have virtually nothing in common with Salvatore Schillaci, aka Totò, the Sicilian footballer whose death at 59 was announced yesterday, other than that we were both born in the first week of December 1964. If you know your football, you’ll know who he is. He came from nowhere – which in a footballing sense is what Messina was and is – and snuck into the Italian squad at the last minute for the 1990 World Cup, which Italy was hosting.
