The club last won Serie A a century ago but modern-day icons, led up front by Diego Milito, deserve their place

Stephen Kasiewicz for The Gentleman Ultra

It is de rigueur to ignore the heroes of the past to focus on the stars of the present when selecting any all-time greats team. The skewed formula can not be applied when choosing five players to represent the oldest club in Italy.

Considering Genoa won the last of their nine Serie A titles in 1924 it would be a straightforward task to compose a team solely from that period. Yet I couldn’t leave out some modern-day icons and decided it would be much more fun to pick a team of Il Grifone players from three different eras.