Gaetano Scirea is considered one of the greatest defenders of all time

Gigi Radice will be remembered for being a great manager and for giving Torino an incredible scudetto 27 years after the Superga tragedy

Giovanni Trapattoni must be considered among the greatest Italian managers of all time and he is certainly the most successful.

Beppe Savoldi was one of Italy’s great centre forwards of the 1970s.

Cagliari football club were founded in 1920

There are two major facts which connect Pierluigi Collina to Lazio.

Andriy Shevchenko will be remembered as a fantastic forward. An absolute legend at Milan and in Ukraine.

Andrea Pirlo was one of the best midfield players in the world and probably one of the most successful.

The Inter-Cities Fairs Cup was a European football competition played from 1955 to 1971.

John Charles is considered one of the greatest British players of all time

The Unione Calcio Sampdoria were founded in 1946. The club was formed by a merger between two local clubs, Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria.

Hotspur Football Club was founded on September 5 1882. In April 1884 they were renamed Tottenham Hotspur.

Rivaldo was one of the ones that got away. When Sergio Cragnotti was in charge of the club he went very close to signing him

The Amsterdam Tournament was a summer competition that ran from 1975 to 1993 and from 1999 to 2009.

The Mitropa Cup was one of the first international European football tournaments for clubs

Marco Van Basten was a player of possibly unrepeatable class and quality

The Cup of the Alps was a tournament played from 1960 to 1987

Gianfranco Zola was one of the greatest Italian players of the 1990s, nicknamed magic box.

The Anglo-Italian Cup was a tournament that ran from 1970 to 1986 and from 1992 to 1996

Gianni Rivera is considered to be one of, if not the best ever players in Italian history.