For These Football Times, I retraced the incredible rise and rapid demise of Mateja Kežman, one of the most divisive footballers of all-time.
From brazen heroics with Partizan Belgrade and clinical success with PSV to inconsistency failure at Chelsea and controversial attitudes post-retirement, delve inside the chaotic world of a misunderstood enigma.
You can read my full article here, enjoying a front row seat for the thrills, spills and disappointments of goalscoring supernova.
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