Juventus: Ranking the 5 best trequartisti of all time

3. Michel Platini

Winning three Ballon d’Or on the trot is not a child’s play; Michel Platini made it look like that. The Frenchman joined Juventus in a year Italy’s national team gained success in their quest for the FIFA World Cup in 1982. Playing alongside those victors helped Platini develop his individual game.

As per the numbers shown in Transfermarkt, Platini scored 104 goals from 223 games for the Old Lady. Joining Juventus from Saint-Étienne, Platini won his first Serie A title in his second season at the club. He also won also the European Cup (currently known as the Champions League) and one Coppa Italia title.

With France, he won the European Championship in 1984 and finished the World Cup campaign from third place two years later. Lauded as one of the finest attacking-midfielders in the history of the game, Michel Platini retired from football having played his last season at Juventus in June 1987.

While talking about his strengths, he had an unusual ability to hit the target with both feet, often manoeuvring the opponents to dive into one side and finding the back of the net on the other side. Being a trequartista, he was a workaholic and possessed a brain of sheer knowledge. Calm and composed, he was a good free-kick taker too. It won’t be too exaggerating to say that he was a complete package who never pleaded to go back to his homeland after moving to Juventus.