Monday 1 June 2015

Luca Toni, 38, Shares The Capocannonieri


As this season draws to a close in most, if not all, of league football, I happened to notice that probably one of football's greatest late developers is at it again as I just happened to realise that Luca Toni of Hellas Verona finished the season as the Serie A top goal scorer, beating the likes of Carlos Tevez, Gonzalo Higuain, Jeremy Menez and so on, just to name a few; with only Mauro Icardi of Inter being able to match this record, as both men scored 22 league goals this past season.


Apart from the achievement of securing the Capocannonieri, Toni has pulled this feat off where some may say he has no right to; he faced steep competition from a rampart Carlos Tevez, from others such as the other joint top goalscorer Icardi and the like of Higuain and so on, while playing for a team who has fewer resources in the sense of their standing in the Italian competition; which may just prove to make this a bigger achievement.

This, however, is not his first top goal scorer award as he first became Italy's top marksman way back in 2006 when he played for Fiorentina aka la Viola, scoring more than 30 league goals in a season, an achievement not matched since Gunnar Nordahl in the damn 50s. He also displayed his class abroad, claiming the Top Goalscorer award for himself in Germany while playing for Bayern Munich in the 2007-2008 season, where he was also the Uefa Cup Top Goalscorer

Following this seasons performance, he is yet to decide his future; with a slim but possible call-up for the Azzuri and a move to Australia. While his sits at home pondering, I'll be heretaking my hat off to the man. 

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