Euro 2022 winner Alessia Russo on making history, inspiring a generation and that viral backheel goal
by Daniel Flynn | 16 Jul 2019
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Allegri, Juventus
When you think of the modern world, you’re most likely thinking of a modern football team. They might be a perennial European champions, or they might be some kind of indie wannabe band. But even when you’re talking about an indie musician, they’re usually a new breed of athlete, an outlier athlete who was just as passionate and passionate about their sport as they were passionate about their music. We can’t imagine such a team at the All-Star game, where the current best athletes are the ones with the most iconic names who have won the most prestigious medals and accolades, like Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt or Usain Bolt.
In the modern world, athletes are usually athletes who are good at one thing and are great at another. That’s not to say they aren’t very good at other things, maybe they’re exceptional at other things, but most of the time they excel in one thing or another. So for that reason, there’s no way they would be eligible for the game’s best players.
We’ve had four players who have won the most prestigious medals and accolades at a single Olympics. Three of them were part of the same team. They have been part of the same team for almost their entire lives. One of them was a member of a team that was already a world champion. He’d been part of that team for 12 years as a teenager. So why were they not eligible for this game? It’s because they were born during the time when there weren’t as many world class athletes and the men, women and even children weren’t eligible to compete individually in the Olympic games.
So the question is, why were they not eligible?
It’s a fair question to be honest. I think there is just a little bit of a catch-22.
Let’s put it in this way. In the modern world, there are always going to
