Serie A has long been famed for it’s defensive abilities and tactical organisation, it’s gifts to the world deemed to be tacticians such as Giovanni Trapattoni and Arrigo Sacchi’s breeding defenders the likes of which other countries could only look on in envy of. Yet, as a byproduct of coming up against players such as Gaetano Scirea, Franco Baresi and Fabio Cannavaro on a weekly basis, the players at the opposite end of the pitch had to be similarly excellent so for every Beppe Bergomi there is a Gigi Riva, for every Paolo Maldini a Giuseppe Meazza.

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