David Owen: From Platini to Pirlo – how the playmaker’s role has evolved

David Owen

Michel Platini once bemoaned to me the extinction of the old-style ‘Number 10’, a position in which he, of course, excelled like few others.

“They have practically done away with le Numéro 10,” he said, sitting in a large office across the street from the Comédie Française.

“There is practically no longer an organiser.

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