Italian striker Luca Toni benched after Catania clash
Italian striker, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Luca-Toni-c22526, the thirty-three year old World Cup winner, was sent off the field after only seventeen minutes of play against Catania. As the player suffered a knee injury and had to be benched.
Luca Toni is the striker that currently plays in the Italian side, Club Juventus, and wears the number twenty.
He just got transferred to the club in the January transfer window and was sent off the field in his debut match for Juventus.
The player started his professional football career in 1990 with Modena’s youth academy and made it into their first team squad in 1994. He has moved through numerous clubs and has played for some big names in football during his career.
He has been a part of clubs such as http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Roma-c31603, Bayern Munich, Palermo and Fiorentina. The player got signed to Bianconeri on January 7, 2011 on a free deal and has signed a contract till 2012.
Luca Toni has been a part of the Italian national first team squad since 2004 and since then has made forty-seven appearances for the country and has scored sixteen goals for international glory.
Luca Toni was also a part of the 2006 World Cup winning squad and is a popular figure in Italy.
Although, he is thirty-three years old, he still poses a serious threat on the football field and thus made a move to Juventus this January.
The Italian star made his Juventus debut in the match against the Catani, which the Bianconeri’s managed to turn into a victory, though the star has little to do with the outcome.
The player was knocked out of play in the seventeenth minute of play and was benched along with players Vincenzo Laquinta and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Fabio-Quagliarella-c13194.
The player is scheduled to undergo tests tomorrow and that will confirm the date of return for the new recruit.
Though the match ended in favour of Bianconeri, with the score board reading two to nil, the Luca Toni fans still went home with a sense of gloom on their faces.
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