Gianluca Vialli
Gianluca Vialli with Sampdoria during the 1991–92 season.
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Gianluca Vialli | ||
| Date of birth | 9 July 1964 | ||
| Place of birth | Cremona, Italy | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1973–1978 | Pizzighettone | ||
| 1978–1980 | Cremonese | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1980–1984 | Cremonese | 105 | (23) |
| 1984–1992 | Sampdoria | 223 | (85) |
| 1992–1996 | Juventus | 102 | (38) |
| 1996–1999 | Chelsea | 58 | (21) |
| Total | 488 | (167) | |
| National team | |||
| 1983–1986 | Italy U21 | 20 | (11) |
| 1985–1992 | Italy | 59 | (16) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1998–2000 | Chelsea | ||
| 2001–2002 | Watford | ||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Gianluca Vialli (born 9 July 1964) is an Italian football manager and former footballer who played as a striker. Since retiring, he has gone into management and punditry and is a commentator for Sky Sport Italia.
Vialli started his club career at Cremonese in 1980 in his native Italy where he made 105 league appearances scoring 23 goals. His performances impressed Sampdoria who signed him in 1984. During which time he scored 85 league goals, won 3 Italian cups, the Serie A and the European Cup Winners Cup. Vialli transferred to Juventus for a World record £12.5 million in 1992. During this time he won the Italian Cup, the Serie A, Italian Supercup, UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Cup. In 1996 Vialli joined Chelsea and became Chelsea player manager the following season. In England he won the FA Cup, League Cup, UEFA Cup Winners Cup and UEFA Super Cup. He is one of ten footballers to have won the three main European club competitions, and the only forward to have done so; he is also the only player in European footballing history to have both winner's and runner's up medals in all three main European club competitions.
At international level, Vialli represented Italy at the 1986 FIFA World Cup, and at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, where Italy finished in third-place on home soil. He also took part at UEFA Euro 1988, helping his nation to a semi-final finish, and was elected to the team of the tournament. During his twenty years long career as a professional footballer he scored 259 goals at club level, 16 goals with the national team, and 11 goals with the Italy national under-21 football team, for a total of 286 goals in more than 500 appearances.
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