Ask football supporters about Hellas Verona's remarkable 1984-85 Serie A triumph and the names that usually come first are Preben Elkjær, Hans-Peter Briegel or manager Osvaldo Bagnoli.
Yet after spending months researching one of Italian football's greatest underdog stories, author Richard Hough came away convinced another figure deserves far greater recognition.
Domenico Volpati.
While never the biggest star in Verona's title-winning squad, Hough discovered he was regarded by many inside the dressing room as the team's emotional and intellectual leader.
In fact, Volpati became the first former player Hough wanted to interview while researching his book.
"The main guy, the first guy I wanted to speak to was Domenico Volpati," Hough told Football Presse.
"Probably not a lot of folk have heard of him, but he was kind of like the intellectual leader of the club then, the big brother figure."
Hough explained that the description was one repeated by many of Volpati's former team-mates.
"A lot of the players referred to him as a big brother because he was a bit older."
Rather than simply chasing Verona's biggest names, Hough wanted to understand how the club functioned from the inside.
"I'd seen interviews with him and I knew how involved he was as a kind of figurehead for the team."
That decision proved pivotal.
Once Volpati had agreed to speak, the rest of Verona's famous dressing room quickly opened its doors.
"Once I had an interview with him, they'd got this WhatsApp group and he kind of let it be known that I was asking questions.
"And from there, the other players I spoke to were extremely available."
Hough credits the openness of Verona's former players with allowing him to tell a richer story than would have been possible through archive research alone.
"The local newspaper journalists over here were very helpful in giving me the contact details.
"They just said, 'Who do you want to speak to? Here's the phone number.'"
Although he could not interview every member of the squad before publication, Hough was able to spend valuable time with several of Verona's most important figures.
One of the most revealing conversations came with winger Pierino Fanna, who still lives in the city where he enjoyed the greatest success of his career.
"I met Pierino Fanna and had a conversation.
"He was exceptionally generous and again had these really vivid memories of not just that season but two or three or four seasons around the championship-winning campaign."
Those discussions also uncovered one of the enduring regrets of Verona's golden generation.
Fanna left immediately after the Scudetto success to join Inter Milan, where he would win another league title, but Hough believes his heart never truly left Verona.
"I think it's probably his biggest regret, the fact that he left.
"I think if he hadn't left, Verona could have gone on to achieve even greater things."
Hough believes Verona was where Fanna finally found the environment that allowed him to flourish after spells with Atalanta and Juventus.
"When he came to Verona, he really got a sense that he was in his football and spiritual home.
"I think he would probably say the biggest regret was leaving at the end of the championship-winning season."
The conversations with former players also reinforced something Hough had already noticed while examining newspaper archives from 1984 and 1985.
Memory changes over time.
Historic achievements become polished into neat stories, while the uncertainty, pressure and everyday reality gradually fade away.
"Speaking to the players, you get a kind of different sense.
"They've told the same story every day of their lives for the last 40 years, so it becomes almost mythologized."
"Whereas if you actually go back to the newspapers from the time, and then also speaking to fans, you get a lot of the colour and the detail and the little facts."
For Hough, combining those contemporary reports with the recollections of Verona's heroes produced a fuller picture of one of football's most remarkable title wins.
It also highlighted that every great team needs more than star players.
Sometimes the man holding everything together is the one history remembers least.
Richard Hough is the author of 'Verone Campione' from Pitch Publishing - which is available here.
