ROME: Roberto Baggio's long goodbye to professional football began last December, when he told a regional television station that he planned to hang up his boots at the end of the Serie A season.
His reappearance for the Italian national team, more than five years after he last pulled on the famous blue shirt, in a friendly against Spain in Genoa today could lead to his farewell being stretched well beyond May 16, however.
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