Nicky Bandini
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1,942 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 15 Sep
Nicky Bandini’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But he was um
a a defining defender in an era when um Italian football went through this evolution actually of moving away from just having man marking everywhere and
and and the the the the free player behind two zernal marking and this different interpretation of how you would even defend and then became this core idea for a Milan team that completely dominated and then of course the World Cup uh win as well.
He's he's uh he's an absolutely um towering figure in Italian football and no age at all again, uh sixty six years old.
Yes, exactly.
Yeah, Jonathan talked about Messi finding pockets of space.
Actually, I was just watching before we came on the BBC doing some of the post-game analysis.
I mean, he was sitting in...
vast acres of space for points in that in that last part of the game and he wasn't even moving he didn't have to move he was he'd found the spot because i mean again jonathan says back three it was back five wasn't it wasn't back three in all reality and and the lack of midfield just meant that there was just this huge open plane for him to wait in and he he's such i mean there's nothing new to say about how intelligent he is and about how well he he reads the game about how well he interprets that space and sees that that's where the opportunities are going to to build for him and
And I think it feels even hard to criticise the players when you look at the Fernandes goal, which is from a completely worked routine.
It's a free kick they've done before.
But you see, Jed Spence has to go to Messi and someone has to come and help him.
And yeah, maybe if someone like Declan Rice is still on the pitch, he's going to get out to Fernandes quicker and see that threat sooner.
But you kind of have to send two men at Messi, don't you?
You can't ignore him and leave him there.
Yeah, it feels very simplistic to put it in this framing, and it's going to be the framing that everyone puts it in, but it really does feel self-inflicted by England.
It feels like they took the plan that was least going to work for them in that situation.
Maybe Argentina would have come back anyway.
Argentina have got a lot about them, as we saw, but the plan was not good.
I think you could argue that, for instance, you look at the game Bellingham had, a very neutral game, that was clearly one of their targets was to get under his skin and they believed he could be an emotional player.
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