Some years ago, there was a notion that only extraordinary players such as Lionel Messi and Francesco Totti merited the "false nine" role -- namely a player positioned as a striker who functions instead as a midfield playmaker -- around which the res

Some years ago, there was a notion that only extraordinary players such as Lionel Messi and Francesco Totti merited the "false nine" role -- namely a player positioned as a striker who functions instead as a midfield playmaker -- around which the res