Football's One Club Men: Paolo Maldini
"Paolo Maldini is a legend". The one line description used in the 2007 Champions League Final programme is without doubt the only way to describe the former Italian full-back. After a trophy laden career stretching over twenty-years Maldini is surely one of football's greatest one club men. The second part in our series celebrating the loyalty of players, Maldini's career at A.C. Milan is no stranger to intrigue and inspiration. To start with Maldini is to start at the beginning. At the age of ten, Paolo first joined the youth ranks at the Milan club. Before long the young defender was making his Serie A debut as a substitute against Udinese, his age only sixteen. It was his only appearance in the 1984/5 season, but within a year he was a regular in the Rossoneri's first eleven. Perhaps one of Paolo's greatest role models for his early career was his father, Cesare Maldini, also a former Milan player. In 1986 Cesare was awarded the role of Italy U21 manage