Nostalgic Serie A five-a-side teams: picking a line-up for … Hellas Verona
Series continues in which writers have the impossible task of choosing a boiled down team from club’s entire history
By Richard Hough for The Gentleman Ultra
The Hellas Verona glory days were the early 1980s. Promoted in 1982, they immediately took Serie A by storm as a well-drilled, talented team with something to prove. Mavericks and misfits, sublime talent and unconventional outsiders, they took on the likes of Diego Maradona, Zico, Michel Platini, Sócrates and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge. And won. Crowned champions of Italy in 1985, an achievement that remains one of the greatest sporting upsets of all time, I have recently been speaking to the players involved with a book to follow next year to commemorate the 40th anniversary. In the meantime, it was a fun picking the best of them for a Hellas Verona fantasy five-a-side team!
