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“Favourite 90s Serie A player, Rob?” asks Shaun Wilkinson. “Trying to avoid the super-obvious names, I am undecided between Faustino Asprilla and, partly because I was present at his final Serie A game, Beppe Signori.”
Bloody hell, what a question. My head has started spinning. I think I’m about to suffer a fatal attack of happy memories. I really have no idea, so I’ll do the modern thing of answering a different question to the one I was asked. Well, Shaun, my favourite Serie A 90s team were undoubtedly Sampdoria’s 1990-91 champions. This thing has never felt less like work than when I was researching this article.
An email! “For those of us in our mid-40s, this game will always be Gullit, Rijkaard, Van Basten versus Klinsmann, Matthaeus, Brehme; Holland v Germany,” says Simon Frank. “So I assume under that logic we are all Milan fans.”
I just want humanity to be the winner, Simon. (And I love that West Germany side, perhaps the most underrated World Cup winners.) Somebody should write a book on the golden age of Serie A in the late 80s and early 90s. Domestic football will never get better than that. It was immense. You could write a whole book just on Sunday 5th May 1991.
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