Italy ended their long wait for a third title in 1982 in Spain, recovering from a slow start to beat favorites Brazil in a thrilling second-round match in which striker Paolo Rossi scored a hat-trick on his way to winning the top scorer's Golden Boot.
Surely, if the president of virtually any other country in the world had defamed an entire people in such a way only a couple years before they got the top job, to boot it would have at least gotten a few column-inches.