Alberto Gilardino

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Born
1982 (44 years old)
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Biella, Italy

Position
Manager

Status
Free Agent

Ethnicity
White

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Height
1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)

Weight
78 kg

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Player Manager ID
3804675

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Soccer

Team
Pisa

League
Italian Serie B

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Description

Alberto Gilardino (born 5 July 1982) is an Italian professional football manager and a former player who played as a striker. He was most recently the manager of Serie A club Genoa.

A prolific goalscorer, in Gilardino's early career he was compared to Filippo Inzaghi due to his opportunism, positional sense and eye for goal. Gilardino currently holds the record for being the tenth-youngest player to have scored 100 goals in Serie A, a feat which he managed at the age of 26 years and 105 days. With 188 Serie A goals, Gilardino is currently among the top 10 all-time scorers in Serie A history. His trademark goal celebration saw him get to his knees and play an imaginary violin.

Gilardino has played for several Italian clubs throughout his career. He first came to prominence during his time at Parma due to his consistent goalscoring, which earned him the Serie A Young Footballer of the Year Award in 2004, followed by the Serie A Footballer of the Year and the Serie A Italian Footballer of the Year Awards in 2005, as well as a move to AC Milan. With Milan, he won the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League, the 2007 UEFA Super Cup and the 2007 FIFA Club World Cup. Gilardino has also played for Chinese club Guangzhou Evergrande, with whom he won the 2014 Chinese Super League.

Gilardino has represented Italy at under-19, under-20, under-21, and senior levels. Gilardino was a part of the Italian side that won the 2004 UEFA Under-21 Championship, where he became the tournament's leading goalscorer. He was also named as the best player of the tournament, and one of two strikers in the UEFA Team of the Tournament. Later that year, he also won a bronze medal with Italy at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He is the all-time top scorer of the Italy U-21 national team with 19 goals in 30 appearances. At senior level, he was part of the 2006 FIFA World Cup-winning squad, and has also participated at the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup, the 2010 World Cup and the 2013 Confederations Cup, where he won a bronze medal. In his career Gilardino scored 432 goals.

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Trophies

Chinese Super League	Guangzhou Evergrande	2014
FIFA Club World Cup	Milan	2007
UEFA Super Cup	Milan	2007
UEFA Champions League	Milan	2006-2007
FIFA World Cup	Italy	2006

Milestones

Serie A Footballer of the Year	Parma Calcio 1913	2005-12-31
Serie A 4 Goals	Parma Calcio 1913	2005-05-01
Serie A 4 Goals	Parma Calcio 1913	2004-05-16

Former Youth Teams

Piacenza	1997-1990	Youth	-	-

Former Senior Teams

Piacenza	1999-2000	Permanent	-	-
Verona	2000-2002	Permanent	-	-
Parma Calcio 1913	2002-2005	Permanent	-	-
Italy	2004-2013	International	-	-
Milan	2005-2008	Permanent	-	-
Fiorentina	2008-2012	Permanent	-	-
Genoa	2012-2014	Permanent	-	-
Bologna	2012-2013	Loan	-	-
Guangzhou Evergrande	2014-2015	Permanent	-	-
Fiorentina	2015	Loan	-	-
Palermo	2015-2016	Permanent	-	-
Empoli	2016-2017	Permanent	-	-
Pescara	2017	Permanent	-	-
Spezia	2017-2018	Permanent	-	-