The next set of five players contains many familiar names with four of them playing in this Millenium.
11. Alberto Gilardino - 188 goals
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| One of the youngest members in Italy's 2006 World Cup-winning squad |
An Italian journeyman striker, Alberto Gilardino started his career Piacenza in 2000 after coming through its youth academy. The striker made his debut in 2000 and spent a season with the club before moving to North Eastern Italy to join Hellas Verona.
At Verona, Gilardino enhanced his reputation as one of the best young talents in the country. The striker played two seasons for the Gialloblu before moving to Parma. It did not take long for Gilardino to get back on the road as a move after an offer AC Milan saw the striker moving to the Rossoneri in 2002.
It was during his time at Milan, that the striker enjoyed his trophy-laden stretch in his career. Gilardino won the Champions League, UEFA Super Cup and the Club World Cup with Milan as well as the World Cup with the Italian national team.
Gilardino was on the road three seasons after joining Milan, completing a move to Florence to join ACF Fiorentina in 2008. It was in Florence that the striker spent the most and scored the most during his career. Four seasons at Florence was followed by a season at Bologna and Genoa.
In 2014, Gilardino became one of the first high profile names to join the Chinese Super League after completing a move to Guangzhou Evergrande. Six months later the striker was on the plane again, joining Fiorentina on loan for six months. Stints at Palermo, Empoli, Pescara and Spezia followed before Gilardino called it a day in 2018.
During his 18-year long career, the striker represented eleven different Italian clubs. The striker scored 188 goals across his career in 502 appearances.
10. Alessandro del Piero - 188 goals
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One of the most loyal players to have graced the game, Alessandro del Piero spent most of his professional career at Turin with the Bianconeri. The talented striker made his debut in 1992 in the second division of the Italian league with Padova after coming through their youth systems before moving to Turin in 1993.
A legendary figure at Turin, Del Piero went onto spent nineteen seasons with the Old Lady of Turin before being released at the end of the 2011-12 season. Del Piero won all but the UEFA Cup during his time at Turin. In what will forever we remembered by the faithful of Juve, Del Piero was one of the four superstars to stay with the Bianconeri after the Turin giants were relegated to the second division following the Calicopoli scandal.
In a Juventus career that transcended three decades, Del Piero won 8 Serie A titles, 1 Serie B title, 1 Coppa Italia, 4 Supercoppa Italiana, 1 UEFA Super Cup, 1 Intercontinental Cup and 1 UEFA Intertoto Cup. He remains Juventus leading appearance maker for Juventus in all-competitions and all-time leading scorer for Juventus.
The striker ended his stay in Turin in 2012 and joined Australian side Sydney FC. Two seasons with the A-League side was followed by a season in the newly formed Indian Super League Delhi Dynamos before retiring from the game in 2014.
Del Piero was named in the FIFA 100 and he was also inducted into the Sydney FC Hall of Fame in 2015, Italian Football Hall of Fame in 2017 and Juventus Greatest XI of all-time in 2017. The 2006 World Cup victory though arguably will remain the greatest moment in Del Piero's career.
In his 23-year long professional career, Del Piero scored 188 goals in 478 Serie A appearances.
9. Giuseppe Signori - 188 goals
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| One of the greatest goalscorers in the history of Lazio |
The only player in this list who has played in all four divisions of the Italian league, Giuseppe Signori started his career in Seria D with Leffe in 1984 after being released by the Inter Milan academy after being deemed too small.
The way up to the Serie A was long and hard for Signori. The striker spent two seasons at Leffe before moving up a division to join Piacenza. It took three more seasons in the Northern Italian club, including a season on loan at Trento, for Signori to make his Serie B debut. A move to Foggia in 1989 paved way for his Seria A debut in 1991 after seven years in lower leagues of Italian football.
A season in the top flight with Foggia was enough for Signori to secure a move to Lazio. The striker spent 6 seasons at the Italian capital winning the Serie A Top scorer award on three occasions before moving to Sampdoria.
A season with Sampdoria was followed by six seasons with Bologna, where he won the Intertoto Cup, before moving to Greece in 2004 top join Iraklis. A season with Greek side was followed by a move to Hungary to join Sopron in 2005 before retiring from the game in 2006.
Giuseppe Signori scored an impressive 188 goals in 314 appearances despite not playing the first seven years of his career in the Serie A.
8.Kurt Hamrin - 190 goals
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| One of the greatest players in the history of Swedish football |
A part of Sweden's famous side that reached the 1958 World Cup final. Kurt Hamrin came made his professional debut in 1952 for AIK after coming through the academy of the Swedish club. The winger would spend three seasons at his boyhood club before moving to Italy to join Juventus in 1956.
The Swedish winger though would only spent one season at Turin. After making his debut in the 1956 season, Hamrin was loaned out Padova the next season before being sold to Fiorentina in 1958. It was with the La Viola that the Swedish winger etched his name in Italian football history.
Kurt Hamrin would spend the next nine seasons at the Artemio Franchi stadium, winning two Italian Cups and the UEFA Cup Winner's Cup. Widely regarded as one of the greatest ever to play for La Viola, Hamrin would end his Fiorentina career in 1967 to join Italian giants AC Milan.
Two seasons at Milan reaped a Seria A, European Cup and his second UEFA Cup Winner's Cup for Hamrin. Despite the success, the Swede would move to Napoli at the end of 1968-69 season to join Napoli. Two seasons down at Naples was followed by a move back to his homeland to join IFK Stockholm before retiring from the game in 1972.
Kurt Hamrin was inducted into La Viola's Hall of Fame. Despite playing mostly as a winger, Hamrin scored an impressive 190 goals in 400 Serie A appearances.
7. Roberto Baggio -205 goals
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| The Divine Ponytail |
The man who terrorised Italian defences during the 1990s. Nicknamed 'The Divine Ponytail' or the Baggio made his debut in 1983 at the age of 15 for Serie C1 side Vicenza. He spent three seasons with Vicenza before joining Fiorentina in 1985.
Baggio though had to wait till 1986 to make his debut after rupturing his ligaments during his last season with Vicenza. The versatile attacker spent five seasons as a La Viola player before moving to Juventus in 1990.
At Turin, Baggio formed a formidable partnership with Fabrizio Ravenelli and Gianluca Vialli as the Bianconeri broke the Milan domination and won the double in 1995. Baggio spent five seasons at Turin winning 1 Seria A, 1 Coppa Italia and 1 UEFA Cup before moving to the other Italian giants
AC Milan.
The striker spent two seasons with Rossenri, winning the Serie A once before moving to Bologna. A season with Bologna was followed by a move to his favourite childhood club Inter Milan. The move proved to be futile as Baggio struggled with injuries and lack of form which finally led the Nerazzurri to sell the star to Brescia in 2000.
Roberto Baggio spent four seasons at Brescia before retiring from the game in 2004. In the last 50 years, La Leonessa have managed to save itself from relegation in the Serie A only four times and each of the time they had Baggio leading the attack. The attacking player is widely considered to be the greatest ever to play for them and In honour of his service, the No. 10 was retired by the Leonessa.
Baggio had a 22-year long professional career during which he represented seven different Italian clubs. He was named in the FIFA 100 by the football federation as well as honoured AC Milan and inducted into their Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the Italian Football Hall of Fame in 2011.
The attacker scored an incredible 205 goals in 492 appearances in the Serie A during his time. Despite being one of the greatest ever to play the game of football, Roberto Baggio sadly is remembered for his infamous penalty miss against Brazil in the 1994 World Cup final.
6. Antonio Di Natale - 209 goals
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| One of the greatest ever to play for Udinese |
One of the most recent entrants into the list of Top 10 goalscorers in the Seria A. Antonio Di Natale started his career at Empoli in 1996 in the second division of the Italian league. The striker was loaned out three times - Iperzola, Varese and Viareggio - before establishing himself as a starter for Gli Azzuri.
Di Natale made his Serie A debut in 2002 after Empoli secured promotion to the Premier League. The Italian striker made the move to Udinese two seasons later Empoli suffered relegation. The Naples-born player started his Le Zebrette career slowly finding the net just 26 times in the league during his first three seasons.
One of the late bloomers in football, Di Natale sprang into life after turning 30. The striker scored an impressive 163 goals in the league during the next eight seasons. Only Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo scored more goals between 2009 and 2011.
The Italian retired from the game in 2016 after nearly 20 years in the game. Antonio Di Natale scored an impressive 209 goals in 445 appearances in the top division of Italian football. He was twice awarded the Serie A top scorer award and is currently the highest goalscorer in the Serie A for Udinese.
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