Igor L’Eroe Romantico Del Calcio

Football in the 1990s was the football of champions who resembled Greek heroes or charismatic Byronic figures striving for the sublime, coming to the aid of the weak. The last romantic hero of that era of football is the passionate Igor Protti, the only player to have been top scorer four times in Serie A (with a relegated team), Serie B and Serie C, and who managed to win the hearts of fans wherever he played, from Bari to Lazio in Rome, from Messina to Naples, right up to Livorno, for whom in 1999 he turned down a multi-million-euro contract and easy success.