All-time Serie A midfielders bracket

The greatest midfielders in Serie A history, by their honours. Fill out a all-time Serie A midfielders bracket.

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Zinedine Zidane1996–2001

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Lothar Matthäus1988–1992

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Michel Platini1982–1987

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Ruud Gullit1987–1994

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Pavel Nedvěd1999–2009

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Gianni Rivera1960–1979

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Diego Maradona1984–1991

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Francesco Totti1993–2017

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Andrea Pirlo1998–2015

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Didier Deschamps1994–1999

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Luis Suárez1961–1970

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Daniele De Rossi2001–2019

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David Beckham2009–2010

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Paul Pogba2012–2024

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Arturo Vidal2011–2022

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Javier Zanetti1995–2014

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Rivaldo2002–2003

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Marek Hamšík2007–2019

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Michael Laudrup1983–1989

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Sami Khedira2015–2021

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Dejan Stanković2004–2013

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Gary Medel2014–2023

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Hakan Çalhanoğlu2017–2021

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Miralem Pjanić2011–2020

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Paulo Dybala2015–2022

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Gennaro Gattuso1999–2012

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Franck Kessié2015–2022

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Leonardo Araújo1997–2003

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Piotr Zieliński2012–2024

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Leandro Paredes2014–2025

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Juraj Kucka2011–2022

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Wesley Sneijder2009–2013

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Marco Tardelli1974–1987

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Dunga1988–1992

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Giancarlo Antognoni1972–1987

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Martin Jørgensen1997–2010

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Matthias Sammer1992–1993

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Luis Monti1930–1939

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Juan Alberto Schiaffino1954–1962

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Zbigniew Boniek1982–1988

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Emre Belözoğlu2001–2005

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Giovanni Ferrari1930–1942

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Hidetoshi Nakata2000–2006

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Gabriele Oriali1970–1987

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Fabián Ruiz2018–2022

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Carlo Ancelotti1975–1992

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Rui Costa1994–2006

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Sulley Muntari2002–2015

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Marcelo Brozović2015–2023

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Adrien Rabiot2019–2024

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Edgar Davids1996–2005

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Alain Boghossian1994–2002

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Mario Pašalić2016–2017

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Claudio Marchisio2005–2018

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Attilio Ferraris1927–1939

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Lorenzo Insigne2009–2022

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Luigi Bertolini1931–1937

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Nicolò Barella2014–2020

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Riccardo Montolivo2003–2019

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Simone Barone1997–2010

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Michele Andreolo1935–1948

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Demetrio Albertini1988–2005

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Esteban Cambiasso2004–2014

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Valon Behrami2003–2022

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Eljif Elmas2019–2026

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Emerson2000–2009

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Enzo Francescoli1990–1994

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Remo Freuler2016–2026

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Giuseppe Dossena1976–1988

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Sandro Mazzola1960–1977

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Alessandro Florenzi2011–2025

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Kwadwo Asamoah2008–2021

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Thiago Motta2008–2012

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Roberto Donadoni1982–1999

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Amedeo Biavati1932–1947

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Ugo Locatelli1934–1949

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Fabio Capello1967–1980

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Zvonimir Boban1991–2001

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Blerim Džemaili2008–2020

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Stephen Appiah1997–2010

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Blaise Matuidi2017–2020

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Gökhan İnler2007–2015

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Dejan Savićević1992–1998

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Weston McKennie2020–

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Pietro Serantoni1926–1940

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Gianpiero Marini1975–1986

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Matías Vecino2013–2022

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João Mário2016–2021

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André-Frank Zambo Anguissa2021–

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Miguel Veloso2010–2019

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Albin Ekdal2008–2015

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Antonio Conte1985–2004

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Manuel Locatelli2016–2023

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Youri Djorkaeff1996–1999

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Alberto Aquilani2002–2017

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Milan Badelj2014–2025

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Radja Nainggolan2010–2021

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Cesc Fàbregas2022–2023

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Stanislav Lobotka2020–

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Tomas Brolin1990–1997

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A knockout bracket: pick the winner of every matchup, round by round, until one is left.

The greatest midfielders in Serie A history, by their honours.

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