Zaza and Baggio’s are the two I normally think of. Both basically sending Italy out of two major tournaments.

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    Obviously Baggio is iconic, but as an Italian I would point at the two missed penalties of Evaristo Beccalossi against Slovan Bratislava. Missing two pens in a game is a big deal but not a unique case, but the Paolo Rossi (the comedian, not the player) monologue about that story makes is very much iconic.

    Freely translating the intro of the monologue:

    "This monologue is dedicated to two of the biggest untapped talents in world culture, who made some of us - even if losers - to think to be meant for a future victory.

    These two talents in the fields of culture, music, art, evolution in general, to me are Charlie Parker and Evaristo Beccalossi.

    I get that maybe many of you don’t know who Charlie Parker was, so I’m going to explain who Beccalossi was."