Football Special Report: Top Fifteen Imports to Serie A (Part 2)
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Zlatan Ibrahimovic moved from Ajax to Juventis for a transfer fee of sixteen million pounds and immediately became a Serie A star.
After the Calciopoli scandal the player moved away from Juventus as he wanted to continue his career on the high level of football. So the player moved to Inter Milan and ended his ‘Old lady’ tenure with ninety one appearances and after scoring twenty six goals.
Ibrahimovic moved to Inter Milan in 2006 for a transfer fee of almost twenty five million Euros and while playing for Inter he won two Italian Super Cups and three Serie A and scored numerous goals.
He made a hundred and sixteen appearances and scored sixty six goals. Then the player tried his luck in the Spanish La Liga and went to Barcelona. He scored twenty one goals there but still Coach Guardiola did not like him so he was loaned to A.C. Milan.
A.C.Milan’s vice president made a great move by loaning Ibrahimovic with the option of buying the player if the first season went well.
At the end of his loan term A.C. Milan bought the player for twenty four million Euros and now looking back at the players history with Inter Milan and Juventus there are still high hopes for the player.
Ronaldo
Ronaldo is one of the greatest strikers in football history. Inter Milan bought him for a then Record fee of nineteen million pounds from Barcelona F.C.
He immediately showed that he was worth every penny, his abilities with the ball are nothing short of amazing.
Sadly he had a knee injury and had to get surgery done but he did win the UEFA Cup and made ninety nine appearances and scored fifty nine goals for Inter Milan.
After recovering from his injury he came back to Serie A and was signed by A.C Milan.
Ronaldo was shining brighter than any other player but received a serious knee injury once again and only made twenty appearances and scored nine goals.
Marco Van Basten
Marco Van Basten is still considered to be one of the greatest attackers in football history but unfortunately his career ended when he was only thirty years old.
He came to A.C Milan in 1987 and spent six seasons with the club and during that time he won three Italian Super cups, two champion’s league, two FIFA Club World Cups, two UEFA Super cups and three Serie A.
He made a total of a hundred and ninety eight appearances and scored a hundred and twenty five goals.
Kaka
Kaka joined the ranks of A.C. Milan from his former club Sao Paulo for a fee of eight and a half million Euros and almost immediately took the spot of the great Ruj Costa and show cased immense talent.
Kaka climbed the steps towards stardom in A.C. Milan and won almost everything with Milan.
His achievement included Super cup Italia, Champions League, Serie A, FIFA Club World Cup and UEFA Super cups.
Kaka was always known for his leadership skills and he took A.C. Milan to their seventh Champions League win.
Though in the summer of 2009 Kaka moved to Real Madrid for a fee of 68.5 million Euros and had made two hundred and seventy appearances and scored ninety five goals for A.C. Milan.
Pavel Nedved
Paval Nedved came to Serie A from the Czech Republic in 1996. He came from Sparta Prague and joined Lazio, even though he had initially had a verbal agreement with PSV.
With Lazio he won two Coppa Italia, two Super cups Italia, A UEFA Cup, a UEFA Super Cup and a Serie A.
He scored fifty goals from two hundred and four appearances for Lazio and his performances with the club earned him a move to the best Italian club there is and Juventus bought the player for a fee of forty one million Euros and he was the replacement for the Great Zidane.’
Even with the ‘The Old lady’ he won two Italian Supercups, two Serie A and one Serie B titles, Nedved was also a part of Juventus when they got demoted because of the Calciopoli scandal.
In the end the player had three hundred and twenty four appearances under his cap and had scored sixty five goals with the club.
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