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THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES, XABI

TOM SEYMOUR reflects on the remarkable career of former Liverpool star Xabi Alonso

TOM SEYMOUR
AS THE 2016/17 season draws to a close, the football world bids farewell to another group of players who have decided to hang up their boots.
AS Roma have said goodbye to arguably their greatest ever, the perennially young Francesco Totti, while another one-club man in Philipp Lahm will also bow out despite many thinking the Bayern Munich legend still has so much to offer at 33-years-old.
However, it is another at the Allianz Arena that I’d like to focus attention on: someone who has not jus...

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