
Jari Litmanen achieved more than most of us mere mortals could ever dream of during his 24-year professional career.
He spent the bulk of the 1990s as one of the planet’s best attacking midfielders, dazzling with Ajax, where he was key to the club’s superlative 1995 Champions League under Louis van Gaal, before enjoying stints at Barcelona and Liverpool, and then returning to Ajax before a somewhat nomadic end to his career.