Alberto Gilardino
b. 1982
Italian association football player
- Born
- 5 Jul 1982 · Biella
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 5 Jul 1982BornBorn in Biella
- 1998TeamItaly national under-15 football team
- 1998TeamItaly national under-16 football team
- 1999 – 2000TeamItaly national under-19 football team
- 1999 – 2000TeamPiacenza Calcio
- 2000 – 2002TeamHellas Verona FC
- 2000TeamItaly national under-20 football team
- 2000 – 2004TeamItaly national under-21 football team
- 2002 – 2005TeamParma Calcio 1913
- 2004AwardKnight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- 2004 – 2013TeamItaly men's national association football team
- 2005 – 2008TeamAC Milan
- 2006Took part2006 FIFA World Cup
- 2006AwardOfficer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- 2008 – 2012TeamACF Fiorentina
- 2010Took part2010 FIFA World Cup
- 2012 – 2013TeamBologna F.C. 1909
- 2012 – 2014TeamGenoa CFC
- 2014 – 2015TeamGuangzhou F.C.
- 2015TeamACF Fiorentina
- 2015 – 2016TeamPalermo F.C.
- 2016 – 2017TeamEmpoli FC
- 2017TeamDelfino Pescara 1936
- 2017 – 2018TeamSpezia Calcio
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1982 – today).
- 19841984 Summer Olympics
- 1985Schengen Agreement
- 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
- 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
- 19901990 FIFA World Cup
- 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
- 19941994 FIFA World Cup
- 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
- 19981998 FIFA World Cup
- 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
- 2003 – 2011Iraq War
- 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
- 20082008 Summer Olympics
- 2008Russo-Georgian War
- 20102010 Haiti earthquake
- 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
- 20112011 Norway attacks
- 2011Libyan civil war
- 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
- 20122012 Summer Olympics
- 20142014 FIFA World Cup
- 2014Russo-Ukrainian war
- 2015Paris Agreement
- 20182018 FIFA World Cup
- 2020COVID-19 pandemic
- 20212020 Summer Olympics
- 2022Russo-Ukrainian war
- 2023Gaza war
- 20242024 Summer Olympics
- 20262026 Iran war
Biography
Alberto Gilardino (Italian pronunciation: [alˈbɛrto dʒilarˈdiːno]; born 5 July 1982) is an Italian professional football manager and a former player who played as a striker; he currently manages Parma.
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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