There was a team in the 1940s that played football without antidotes, and revolved around someone who made passes never seen before. Di Stefano said: “Who is better between me, Pelé and Maradona? Obviously you’ve never seen him…”
The attacking midfielder is not a player like the others. It is no coincidence that he is often defined as “atypical”. That is: out of the norm. In short, he belongs to an elite group: he must possess courage, technique, imagination and a remarkable ability to tolerate pain, because it is not easy to stay in the middle of enemy lines, alone, to take beatings and insults, desperately looking for an idea turn it into a masterpiece.