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The top 10 goalscorers in Serie A history

written by footieguy71

In this article we look at the top 10 goalscorers in Serie A history

Table

Rank Player Club(s) Goals Apps Ratio
1 Silvio Piola Pro Vercelli, Lazio, Juventus, Novara 274 537 0.51
2 Francesco Totti Roma 250 619 0.4
3 Gunnar Nordahl AC Milan, Roma 225 291 0.77
4 Giuseppe Meazza Inter Milan, AC Milan, Juventus 216 367 0.59
José Altafini AC Milan, Napoli, Juventus 216 459 0.47
6 Antonio Di Natale Empoli, Udinese 209 445 0.47
7 Roberto Baggio Fiorentina, Juventus, AC Milan, Bologna, Inter Milan, Brescia 205 452 0.45
8 Kurt Hamrin Juventus, Padova, Fiorentina, AC Milan, Napoli 190 400 0.48
9 Giuseppe Signori Foggia, Lazio, Sampdoria, Bologna 188 344 0.55
Alessandro Del Piero Juventus 188 478 0.39
Alberto Gilardino Piacenza, Hellas Verona, Parma, AC Milan, Fiorentina, Genoa, Bologna, Palermo 188 502 0.37

Summary

The all time top scorer is Silvio Piola, he played 566 Serie A games, putting him fourth on the all-time list for appearances in Italy’s top flight. Piola is the only player to have the honour of being the all-time Serie A top scorer of three different teams (Pro Vercelli, Lazio and Novara). He also played 34 games for Italy and score 30 goals. What is more surprising that a few years of his career was lost because of Word War 2.

The Italian striker finished as the Serie A top goalscorer during the 1936-37 and 1942-43 seasons.

The next player on the list is a genuine one club legend, Francesco Totti, Totti spent his entire career at Roma, winning a Serie A title, two Coppa Italia titles, and two Supercoppa Italiana titles. He was a 2006 FIFA World Cup winner and UEFA Euro 2000 finalist with Italy, despite only winning 59 caps.

The next player on thie list is the top scoring foreign player,Gunnar Nordahl. Nordahl is Milan’s all-time record goalscorer, with 210 goals in 267 games, an incredible scoring rate. What is more remarkable with Nordahl is that he only spent 10 seasons in total in Italy. The amount of goals he could have scored if he had played longer is a staggering thought.

Completing the top 5 are Giuseppe Meazza and José Altafini who both scored 216 goals.

Giuseppe Meazza was famous for playing both Inter Milan and AC Milan then Juventus. He scored the vast majority for Inter over 11 seasons. The San Siro stadium in Milan, which is today shared by two of his former clubs, Inter Milan and A.C. Milan, was named Stadio Giuseppe Meazza in the player’s honour on 3 March 1980

Jose Latafina played for AC Milan, Napoli, Juventus where he scored 120, 71 and 25 goals repectively.

At international level, he represented both Brazil and Italy; he was a member of the Brazilian side that won the 1958 FIFA World Cup, and later also represented Italy at the 1962 FIFA World Cup.

In the rest of the top 10 you will see several players that will be familiar if you followed Italian football in the 80s to 2000s – Antonio Di Natale, Roberto Baggio, Giuseppe Signori, Alessandro Del Piero and Alberto Gilardino

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40 interesting facts about Inter Milan

written by footieguy71

In this article we bring you 40 facts about inter milan

Facts

The club was founded on 9 March 1908 as Foot-Ball Club Internazionale

Since its founding in 1908, Inter have almost always worn black and blue stripes

Blue was chosen by Giorgio Muggiani because he considered it to be the opposite to red, worn by Milan

The name of the club derives from its founding members to accept foreign players as well as Italians.

One of the founders, a painter named Giorgio Muggiani, was responsible for the design of the first Inter logo in 1908

The clubs nickname is Nerazzurri (The Black and Blues)

In 1928, during the Fascist era, the club was forced to merge with the Unione Sportiva Milanese and was renamed Società Sportiva Ambrosiana

During the 1928–29 season, the team wore white jerseys with a red cross emblazoned on it

The club won its very first Scudetto in 1910

The captain and coach of the first championship winning team was Virgilio Fossati, was later killed during World War I

Inter Milan have won the league nineteen times

Inter Milan have won the Coppa Italia eight times

Inter has won the Champions League/European Cup three times

Inter won two back-to-back European Cup titles in 1964 and 1965

The club has also won three UEFA Cups

Inter’s home games are played at the San Siro stadium, which they share with city rivals Milan

The stadium is the largest in Italian football with a capacity of 75,923

The first game played at the stadium was on 19 September 1926, when Inter beat Milan 6–3

Javier Zanetti holds the record for total appearances with 858 official games.

Javier Zanetti holds the record for Serie A appearances with 618 games

Giuseppe Meazza is Inter’s all-time top goalscorer, with 284 goals in 408 games

Helenio Herrera had the longest reign as Inter coach at nine years

The record win was 16–0 against ACIVI Vicenza

The record Serie A win was 9–0 against Casale

The record Serie A defeat was 1–9 against Juventus

The club has played 91 seasons played in Serie A

Inter Milan’s record signings is Romelu Lukaku

Lukaku was signed from Manchester United for a reported fee of €65 million in 2019

The club’s record sale was when they sold Romelu Lukaku to Chelsea for a fee of €115 million

2 players won the FIFA World Player of the Year while at Inter – Ronaldo and Lothar Matthäus

Ronaldo and Lothar Matthäus also won the Ballon d’Or while at Inter

Ronaldo was the last Inter Milan player to win the FIFA World Player of the Year award.

In 2010 Inter became the first Italian club to capture the domestic “treble”

The traditional ultras group of Inter is Boys San

Inter’s most vocal fans are known to gather in the Curva Nord, or north curve of the San Siro.

Inter participate in the Derby della Madonnina with AC Milan

Inter participate in the Derby d’Italia with Juventus.

The number 3 was retired when Giacinto Facchetti died

The number 4 was retired out of respect when Javier Zanetti retired

Suning Holdings Group is the majority share holder in Inter

The current chairman is Steven Zhang

The current head coach is Simone Inzaghi

The grass snake, called Biscione, represents Inter

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