OTD E0033 - 03 Dec 1972: Dino Zoff and Two Parallel Cleansheet Records

03 Dec 1972: Juventus beat Fiorentina 2–1 in Turin – and the last goal Dino Zoff concedes in Serie A for more than 900 minutes slips past him before half time. From that point, he strings together 903 league minutes without conceding, right in the middle of a world-record 1,142-minute shut-out run for Italy. We walk through Juve’s opponents, the Azzurri’s fixtures and zoom out to ask how often a goalkeeper dominates both club and country like this, from Buffon to Van der Sar and beyond.Tips/corrections: [email protected]