Giuseppe Giannini was the creative soul of Roma through the late 1980s and 1990s, a graceful playmaker who wore the captain’s armband and earned the nickname of a prince for his bearing. A one-club figure in the capital, he supplied the passes that fired the Giallorossi’s attack.
Elegant and unhurried, he represented Italy at the 1990 World Cup on home soil, adored by Roma’s supporters as the standard-bearer of their side.