"It was Ignazio Pirastu, then head of the PCI Sports Commission, who brought us the unexpected news: according to Enrico Berlinguer, we had to go to Chile. And he wanted us to know it. For the secretary of the PCI, it would not have been right for the Cup to end up in the hands of Pinochet's Chile rather than ours. From then on, the road to departure was downhill. It was like a free-for-all. The Andreotti government said it would leave the decision up to CONI, which in turn left it up to the Federation, and we found ourselves in Santiago, free to win. Thanks to Berlinguer."