Twelve Magnificent Strikers who never graced the English Premier League history – Part 4
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Francesco Totti
Francesco Totti is an Italian professional footballer, who has been a one-club man throughout his football career. The World Cup-winning Italian has only played for the Serie A club Roma.
He also happens to be the captain of this team. An excellent goal merchant, this versatile player is deployed both as a second striker or an attacking mid-fielder.
Totti is the most capped and celebrated personage of the Italian club. However, this number-one striker would have made a great player at the Blackburn Rovers’ side as well.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Francesco-Totti-c13940 is a thirty-four-year-old Italian who currently plays for Roma. He started his professional football career at Fortitudo’s youth academy in 1984, then quickly moved to
Smit Trastevere’s academy the same year where he spent the next two years.
In 1986, Totti moved to Lodigiani’s academy where he spent another three years in training. His last move came in 1989, when he moved to Roma’s training grounds and spent his last three
years in training before making it into the big leagues.
Totti was added to the first team squad list in 1992 and is still running high with appearances. His total tally for http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Roma-c31603 comes to an astonishing four hundred and sixty-four appearances
for the club with netting a hundred and ninety-seven goals.
The player was also added the Italian national team squad list from the under sixteen squad in 1991. He made nineteen appearances for country before bumping up to the under eighteen team
in 1993 where he made another fourteen appearances.
Next he was added to the under nineteen squad the following year in which he made just eight appearances, before making it into the Italian first team national squad in 1998.
Totti was part of the first national team for eight years in which he represented country fifty-eight times to net nine goals.
Hakan Şükür
Hakan Şükür is a thirty-nine-year-old Turkish retired professional footballer. The Turk played majorly for Galatasaray side and his country, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Turkey-c3026. Although Sukur was an epitome of brilliance,
however he was highly underrated as a football striker of his time.
Şükür started his football career from Sakaryaspor in 1987 and spent three years with them to make thirty-eight appearances with netting nineteen goals.
His first move came in 1990 when he got signed to Buraspor for a period of two years in which he made forty-four appearances on the football field and managed to net eleven goals.
In 1992, he moved to Galatasaray and stepped onto the football field for that club ninety times, and scored fifty-four times till his move to Torino in 1995.
The same year he went back to Galatasaray for another five years to make a hundred and fifty-six appearances and scored a hundred and eight goals.
At the start of the new millennium Şükür moved to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Inter-c39567 Milan to make twenty-four appearances to score five goals.
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