Manchester United's Anderson was the man who stuck his hand up to take the first penalty of sudden death in the 2008 Champions League final having been tipped as "better than Wayne Rooney ".
The Brazilian never lived up to that description and called time on his career at 31.
That's no age for a player who won the Golden Boy award in 2008, with his name sitting in a roll of honour alongside the likes of Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland.
