5 of the most overrated players of the last 5 decades

SS Lazio v OGC Nice - UEFA Europa League
Mario Balotelli is nowhere near as good as he was believed to be

#2 Paolo Rossi (1980-1990)

1982 WORLD CUP FINAL
Italians worship him for a single hattrick

The first thing that will come to your minds now is WTF?! And that is completely normal. After all, this is a man who scored 6 goals to help Italy win the World Cup in 1982 and also won the Golden Boot award in the tournament.

Rossi also went on to win the Ballon d’Or that year. So why is he on this list? Simple, he wasn’t as good a striker as people make him out to be.

Here’s why: in his 10 seasons in the top flight, he had only two good seasons and a great World Cup. He is a bit like Lukas Podolski of the 80s: great for the country in one World Cup and below-average in club football.

Only in two seasons did he score more than 20 goals, which is not entirely great for someone labelled as a legend, even when considering Serie A team’s love for catenaccio back then.

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