THE Azzurri will always be Leonardo Aresi's first love in football. Yet it is the blue of Rangers rather than that of the Italian national team that has shaped his life.
The summer of 2006 saw Marcello Lippi's side crowned as World Champions and a generation of supporters adopt new heroes as the names and the games became enshrined in the folklore of a country that had kicked every ball until that final penalty was scored in Berlin.
