Gianluigi Lentini: How the World’s Most Expensive Player’s Career Came Crashing Down
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Gianluigi Lentini: How the World’s Most Expensive Player’s Career Came Crashing Down

In the early 1990s, Gianluigi Lentini was the name on every football fan’s lips. Lentini was a football prodigy whose electrifying pace and dazzling dribbling turned heads across Europe. Born in the modest town of Carmagnola, near Turin, Lentini’s meteoric rise from Torino’s youth academy to becoming the world’s most expensive footballer was the stuff…

Liam Brady Irish international who played in Italy for Sampdoria
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Viva Italia! The Rich History of the Irish in Italy

Irish ties with Italy go deeper than your local chipper. Especially in football. Besides Giants Stadium at U.S.A. ’94 and Giovanni Trapatoni, there have been a number of Irish internationals who have plied their trade in the Bel Paese over the years. Recent years have seen an influx of Irish starlets to Italian clubs so…