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HE MAY HAVE ended Irish dreams of World Cup glory in 1990, but Toto Schillaci is being fondly remembered here today as a football folk hero. Toto Schillaci ’s cult status in Ireland was confirmed by his appearance as the star of some very funny Irish ad campaigns over the years .Many Irish fans responded to McGrath to recall how they and friends would pretend to be Schillaci when playing football as kids.
— Paul McGrath September 18, 2024 Toto Schillaci visited Ireland several times over the past three decades. Recalling his own memories of the summer of 1990 last year while in Dublin, he described the quarter-final as a “difficult match” because of the “strong” and “united” Irish team. Cultural icon Toto Schillaci’s status as a cultural icon in Ireland was cemented via the unlikely medium of an expletive-bedecked t-shirt about him – sported by Colm Meaney in the 1996 film adaptation of Roddie Doyle’s Dublin-set novel The Van.Versions of the t-shirt have been available to buy online for several years.
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