He played for the Italian national team for more than a decade during which he was irreplaceable as the leading defender, keeping Franco Baresi out of the national team for four years until he retired in 1986.

Each one of us, most people, have something in our life that's literally irreplaceable, in that it has value because of its history maybe your wedding ring, maybe your child's baby shoes so that if it was lost, you couldn't get it back.