Another week, another stop on the Giorgio Chiellini farewell tour.
Turin two weeks ago, where he received a prolonged ovation and blew kisses to the crowd after being brought off 17 minutes into his final home appearance for Juventus - that's one minute for each season spent with the club.
Then on to Florence, where Chiellini bled for the Juventus cause one last time in his last outing for the club and didn't even realise he'd been wounded.
And now to London, and Wembley Stadium, the scene of the greatest triumph of his career for his curtain call in the blue of Italy some 18 years after his first cap.
Just under a year on from that Euro 2020 final win over England, the 37-year-old seems happy enough that international duty will end in the Finalissima against Argentina on Wednesday night.
'When I learned we will play against Argentina, I thought it was a present from destiny,' Chiellini told La Gazzetta dello Sport this week.
'The last chance, one final game against Leo Messi, one of the best players in the history of the game. Wembley is a symbolic place where the European and South American champions will meet.'
He obviously views his swansong in such an attractive match as preordained. It certainly beats the UEFA Nations League, or Italy's last game, a friendly against Turkey in Konya.
Chiellini is only retiring from the international game, after 116 matches for the Azzurri, and is set to continue playing club football in the MLS, most likely with Los Angeles FC.
But his place among the pantheon of Italian football greats - Baresi, Pirlo, Maldini, Cannavaro etc - is surely assured.
The granite-tough defender schooled the Italian way, he battled unsuccessfully with injury in the Euro 2012 final, when Italy were thrashed 4-0 by Spain.
At the 2014 World Cup, he was infamously bitten on the shoulder by Uruguay's Luis Suarez, which saw the shamed forward banned from all football for four months.
In a measure of the man, Chiellini phoned Suarez after the tournament to forgive. 'He had no need to apologise to me. I am too a son of a b**** on the field and proud of it,' he said later.
Italy bombed out of the group stages in Brazil then could not get beyond the quarter-finals of Euro 2016.
When they didn't even make it to the 2018 World Cup, Chiellini, well into his thirties, must have feared that crowning moment on the international stage would never come.
Not least when the Covid pandemic delayed Euro 2020 by 12 months, pushing Italy's captain another year closer to the end.
Would he ever know how it felt to lift one of the top trophies as leader of your country? Just as those of his acquaintance when he made his Italy debut against Finland in 2004 felt when they won the 2006 World Cup.
But everything came together perfectly for Roberto Mancini's team, who were head and shoulders the best performers throughout the tournament even if it took penalties to overcome England.
'We were serene, we felt their fear,' was his reflection on the final earlier this week.
It nicely summarised how Chiellini and his defensive brother-in-arms Leonardo Bonucci dealt effortlessly with England's diminishing threat after conceding inside the first two minutes.
Once Bonucci equalised midway through the second-half, there was only ever going to be one winner. The memories explain why Chiellini is so satisfied his final run-out for Italy will be at Wembley.
'A win is at exciting at 36 as it is at 21. Maybe at 36 you feel it more because you understand more how hard it is and the work that goes into it,' he said on the Euro triumph.
'Now I have the maturity to understand fully what this championship means to us.'
There weren't many Italian fans inside Wembley that night but there will be for the Finalissima and the player affectionately nicknamed 'King Kong' and 'Gorilla' will certainly get a chest-beating send-off.
He has spoken of his wish to return to Juventus in some capacity after his sojourn to the United States but post-retirement the possibilities are broad.
A fluent English speaker, Chiellini has a degree in Economic and Commerce from the University of Turin and a master's in Business Administration.
'I am at peace,' he said this week. 'I feel happy with what I achieved and a little bit of pride.'