Overview
- Inter Milan issued an official statement late Saturday confirming Mazzola's death and calling him a club and world football legend.
- Mazzola spent a 17-year professional career at Inter, with contemporary reports crediting him with roughly 565–566 appearances and about 158–162 goals for the club.
- He was a central figure in Inter's 1960s success, scoring twice in the 1964 European Cup final and helping the team win two European Cups and four Serie A titles.
- With Italy he won the 1968 European Championship and was a World Cup runner-up in 1970, and he later served as Inter's sporting director.
- No cause of death or funeral plans have been released and one outlet's lone anecdote about a brief 1986 appearance for Pro Patria is not widely corroborated.