First things first, let's get the puns out of the way.
Yes, Kevin Lasagna, the Udinese and Italy striker, is a tasty player. Yes, he has put many a shot pasta goalkeeper. Yes, off the pitch, he doesn't mince his words. And yes, on occasion, he will make a meal of a straightforward finish.
Lasagna may be a headline writer's dream, but the 26-year-old is also a player with a remarkable backstory who in the space of only four years has gone from playing amateur football before paltry crowds in Italy's fourth tier to mixing with Italian football royalty in Serie A and wearing the No.