Who? I'm just curios...
It doesn't need to be a soccer player, just a sportman who is supported by everybody from kids to granma, and have becommed a simble of the country also outside sport...
We don't have a lot, of soccer is just Baggio cause the rests are or were just supported by the fans or their club while he's a simble indipendently of the jersey he's wearing.
Than of the other sports some skier like A.Tomba, G.Thoni, D.Compagnoni than Valentino Rossi of motorbike and Coppi of cyclism (also Pantani was like this, but with the doping staff he loosed a lot of support) but their sports are not so popolar like soccer that's why they came after.
And it also results that Roby is the most famos person of Italy abroad... it will not ever happen in England, I guess that a sportman will be the most famos person, right? You have the queen! But actually in places like Brazil, Argentina is kinda the same... sportsman are more important than politics...
P.S.: Well it's out of topic, but anycase...