Luca Toni in 2005
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Full name | Luca Toni | ||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 26 May 1977 | ||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Pavullo nel Frignano, Italy | ||||||||||||||
Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||
1990–1991 | Officine Meccaniche Frignanesi | ||||||||||||||
1991–1994 | Modena | ||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
1994–1996 | Modena | 32 | (7) | ||||||||||||
1996–1997 | Empoli | 3 | (1) | ||||||||||||
1997–1998 | Fiorenzuola | 26 | (2) | ||||||||||||
1998–1999 | Lodigiani | 31 | (15) | ||||||||||||
1999–2000 | Treviso | 35 | (15) | ||||||||||||
2000–2001 | Vicenza | 31 | (9) | ||||||||||||
2001–2003 | Brescia | 44 | (15) | ||||||||||||
2003–2005 | Palermo | 80 | (50) | ||||||||||||
2005–2007 | Fiorentina | 67 | (47) | ||||||||||||
2007–2010 | Bayern Munich | 60 | (38) | ||||||||||||
2009 | Bayern Munich II | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||
2010 | → Roma (loan) | 15 | (5) | ||||||||||||
2010–2011 | Genoa | 16 | (3) | ||||||||||||
2011–2012 | Juventus | 14 | (2) | ||||||||||||
2012 | Al Nasr | 8 | (3) | ||||||||||||
2012–2013 | Fiorentina | 27 | (8) | ||||||||||||
2013–2016 | Verona | 95 | (48) | ||||||||||||
Total | 586 | (268) | |||||||||||||
National team | |||||||||||||||
2004–2009 | Italy | 47 | (16) | ||||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
Luca Toni, Ufficiale OMRI (Italian pronunciation: [ˈluːka ˈtɔːni]; born 26 May 1977) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Something of a footballing nomad, at club level, Toni played for twelve different Italian teams throughout his career. A late bloomer, he spent several seasons in the lower divisions of Italian football, as well as promising spells with minor Serie A clubs Vicenza and Brescia, before finally making his breakthrough with Palermo: he helped the team to Serie A promotion during the 2003–04 season by winning the Serie B title, and was the league's top scorer with 30 goals; the following season, he helped the club qualify for Europe, scoring 20 goals in Serie A. After two prolific seasons with Fiorentina, Toni also spent three seasons with German side Bayern Munich, where he helped the club to a domestic treble during the 2007–08 season, also reaching the UEFA Cup semi-finals; after falling out with the club's manager during his third season with the team, and being demoted to the reserve squad, he later returned to Italy on loan with Roma in 2010, and subsequently had spells with Genoa and Juventus. In 2012, he played for Al-Nasr Dubai SC, in the UAE Arabian Gulf League, but returned to Fiorentina for a season later that year. He retired in 2016, after three seasons with Verona, the last as team captain.