The Decade’s Top Football Strikers – Part 5
-Christian Vieri:
Here is another Italian player and his list of clubs that he has played for goes as follows: Juventus, AC Milan, Inter Milan, Torino, Atletico Madrid, Monaco, Lazio, Atlanta and Fiorentina.
Vieri is one of the greatest goal-scorers of his generation and has ventured through various clubs in his career so far. He moved around a lot before joining Juventus in 1996 and then stayed there for a year only to move to Atletico Madrid.
He was quite impressive with Atletico Madrid as he scored twenty four goals in his twenty four appearances there but still he did not stay long with them either and moved to Lazio in the next season.
Christian stayed at Lazio for also a year before moving to Inter Milan where he found some stability as he remained with them for the next six years and left only in 2005. He made a hundred and forty three appearances for the club and netted a hundred and
three goals.
He then had numerous short spells with different clubs but did not perform to his maximum, and then finally, he moved to Atlanta and retired from Professional football in 2009 while still being there.
Christian Vieri has had a successful football career. He is the Italian who also represented his country in seven major tournaments, bagging forty nine national appearances and twenty three goals.
-Diego Forlan:
This is one famous Uruguayan who plays for Atletico Madrid and has ventured through clubs like Manchester United, Independiente and Villareal.
He started his career with Independiente and then made a direct call to the Red Devils. But, the player did not have a happy spell with Manchester United and only scored ten goals from his sixty three appearances.
He was ultimately transferred to Villareal where he showcased his Spanish roots by scoring fifty four goals in a hundred and six appearances. Later, Atletico Madrid bought this player to replace Fernando Torres, who moved to Liverpool during the same season.
Diego Forlan has scored sixty nine goals for Atletico Madrid in his hundred and four appearances there so far. He has also become a regular at the Uruguayan National team and got the Golden Ball for his performances in the 2010 World Cup.
-Gabriel Batistuta:
Gabriel Batistuta is an Argentinean player who has played for numerous clubs such as Newell’s Old Boys, Roma, Inter Milan, Al-Arabi, Boca Juniors and River Plate.
He is one of the most creative players that have ever played in Serie A and is thought to be a living legend by Liorentina fans. In the start of his career, he played for River Plate and then for their bitter rivals, the Boca Juniors until finally he made
the move to the Italian club, Fiorentina.
Batistuta remained at the Italian club for nine years before moving to Roma in order to achieve a trophy in his name. He did achieve this aim and won the Scudetto in 2000. He scored twenty goals in that session alone.
The player had another short term at Inter Milan and then went to play for Al-Arabi in Qatar. He is also a regular team member of the Argentinean national squad, scoring fifty six goals in his seventy nine appearances with them.
(To be continued in Part 6)
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