LEGNANO – He was one of the symbolic attackers of the Turin. TO Legnano Paolino Pulici in fact, he has not forgotten his footballing origins, having been launched in the lilac shirt by the coach in the youth team Edmund PigeonsMethodist centre-half of Great Legnano and a great football fan. Only one appearance in the first team, on 14 May 1967, in Mestrina-Legnano 0-0, valid for the XXXII matchday of the Serie C championship.
Clean us up after his experience in Lille he arrived at Turin where he was first deployed in the Primavera, and then made his debut in the top flight as a starter in the 1968/69 season in the home match against Cagliariwhere he faced another former lilac from Hall of Fame, “Roll of Thunder” Gigi Riva. With the Granata, led by Gigi Root, “Puliciclone” became the protagonist of a historic championship in 1975/76, when he also obtained the title of top scorer in Serie A (with 21 goals, 4 of which were penalties).
With 172 goals in total with the shirt of Turin He is still the Granata club’s all-time record scorer.
Today on Rai Radio Due, on his 74th birthday, during the “Campione del Mondo” broadcast, he heavily attacked Italian football: «I no longer follow Italian football. Why? It’s not football. I think of it when I see a team attacking, arriving in the opponent’s penalty area and then coming back towards their goalkeeper. And players now only play for money.”
