Paolo Maldini: Il Capitano (Video)

Chris Wright

16th, September 2011

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By Chris Wright

Paolo Maldini. Il Capitano. The longest-serving one-club man in football history. He’s won everything there is to win and then done it all again. A man who stood on the very apex of committed defending for almost 25 years. Cultured, consummate and quintessentially Italian…

The greatest left-back-cum-centre-half to have ever graced the footballing sphere? I, for one, certainly wouldn’t see fit to argue with you.

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