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Adriano Imperador, Paramount+

BRAZIL has produced no shortage of great football players, but there are few as exciting as the striker Adriano (pictured),

who was at his peak in the 2000s. Combining pace, power and an incredible left-footed shot, he was phenomenal for the Brazil national team and for Inter Milan, whose fans nicknamed him ‘L’Imperatore’ (The Emperor). But that’s just one side of a very complicated man who rose from the Brazilian slums to enjoy an incredible lifestyle at the top of world football, but struggled to sustain it. This

revealing three-part documentary charts his rise, but also his struggles with drink and weight gain, the drug accusations that followed him, and his long road to recovery.