00:05Italy's 1938 World Cup win was captured so wonderfully with this striking photograph,
00:11all eyes naturally drawn to the stern man holding the Jules Rimei Trophy.
00:18Vittorio Pozzo was not just the mastermind to Italy's back-to-back World Cup triumphs in 1934
00:25and 38 but is widely credited as the author of the WW or 2323 formation known as the Metodo.
00:35A widely traveled student of the game, Pozzo lived in Manchester at the turn of the century,
00:41played in Switzerland and developed the Metodo through one of four stints as Italian coach.
00:49It was the framework from which the Azzurri built its reputation as the first defensive
00:54giant of international football. Pozzo also turned his revered captain Giuseppe Meazza from a pure
01:02striker to an offensive midfielder or inside forward. The pair forming a brilliant brains
01:09trust for the 1938 campaign. Il vecchio maestro, the old master, first coached Italy at the 1912
01:18Stockholm Olympics and his longest stint was from 1929 to 1948, a term which included an Olympic gold
01:27medal in Berlin between his two World Cup triumphs. Today's coaches would perhaps find it strange that
01:34for much of his life he was also a journalist with Turin newspaper La Stampa, a fascinating character on
01:42football's greatest stage.
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