Inter Milan with two goals from Diego Milito and one from Rodrigo Palacio on November 3 2012 handed Juventus FC a 3-1 Italian Serie A defeat at their new Juventus Stadium to end their 49 unbeaten run which spanned 3 seasons from the back end of the 2010/2011 season, with a 2-2 draw against Napoli.
The player thatcurrently holds the record for being the youngest player to have scored 100 goals in the Italian Serie A is Alberto Gilardino. ''Gila'' as he is often nicknamed, achieved this feat on October 18 2008 at 26 years and 3 months while playing for ACF Fiorentina, thanks to a brace against Reggina. He has played for other Italian clubs like Piacenza, Hellas Verona FC, Parma FC, AC Milan, Genoa CFC and Bologna FC.
John Charles of Wales was the only British player to be Italian Serie A highest goalscorer also known as the Capocannoniere. He did this while at Juventus FCin the 1957/1958 season scoring 28 goals and was voted player of the season as the Bianconeri won the Scudetto.
He was never cautioned or sent off during his entire career, due to his philosophy of never kicking or intentionally hurting opposing players. Standing at 6 feet 2 inches, he was nicknamed Il Gigante Buono – The Gentle Giant.
Since the year 1989, only Vicente del Bosque and Jose Mourinho have survived 2 calendar years as Real Madrid manager.
In 1999/2000, Del Bosque took over from John Toshack in November 1999 and he lasted till June 2003 when his contract was not renewed. Mourinho took over the Real Madrid managerial reigns from Manuel Pellegrini in July 2010 after he led Inter Milan to a treble of the Italian Serie A, Coppa Italia and the UEFA Champions League in the highly successful 2009/2010 season. He threw in the towel at the Santiago Bernabeu in May 2013.
Giacinto Facchetti who played his whole football career for Inter Milan asone of the first truly great attacking-full backs, and one of the best ever in his position from 1960 to 1978, played 634 official games and scored 75 goals.
Facchetti won 4 Italian Serie A Scudetto in 1962/1963, 1964/1965, 1965/1966 and 1970/1971 seasons; one Coppa Italia in 1978; two European Cups (now UEFA Champions League) in 1963/1964 and 1964/1965; and two Intercontinental Cups in 1964 and 1965.
His number 3 jersey he wore for Inter Milan all through his career was retired posthumously in his honour after he died of pancreatic cancer in Milan on September 4, 2006 as the club President.
Under Fabio Capello in the 2000/2001 season, AS Roma won their third Italian Serie A title called the Scudetto on the last day of the season by beating Parma 3–1, edging out Juventus by two points.
Francesco Totti was a large reason for the title victory and he would become one of the main heroes in the club's history, going on to break several club records.
Other important players during this period included Gabriel Batistuta (who was the league Top Scorer with 20 goals), Aldair, Cafu, Vincenzo Montella, Antonio Casanno, Emerson, Walter Samuel, Vincent Candela, Hidetoshi Nakata, Damiano Tommasi and Marco Delvecchio.
At first attempt, Alberto Zaccheroni led AC Milan to their 16th Scudetto in the 1998/1999 Italian Serie A season where they pipped Sven Goran Eriksson led SS Lazio to the title with just one point. He was appointed from Udinese Calcio where he brought in lethal striker Oliver Bierhoff and the defensive right winger Thomas Helveg to help win the title.
He introduced ACMilan to his unorthodox 3-4-3 formation, in which Bierhoff was a perfect center forward, scoring 20 goals in the league.
AC Milan had a marvelous second half of the season, in which it kept pace with Serie A championship leaders SS Lazio, then passing the Romans when they had a couple of slips. In the end, a win in the final day was more than enough to clinch AC Milan's first league title in three years.
Laurent Blanc who started his professional career with Montpellier HSC in 1983 but left in 1991 to Napoli in the Italian Serie A became, and still remains, their all-time leading goal scorer, with 84 goals in all competitions with 76 in the French Ligue 1.
He is currently the head coach of the French national team, having replaced Raymond Domenech in the wake of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. He was previously the manager of Bordeaux.
Paolo Maldini is the player with the most Italian Serie A appearances with 647 and scoring 29 goals for AC Milan in 25 seasons. The journey started from January 20, 1984 when he replaced the injured Sergio Battistini in a match against Udinese at the age of 16 to May 31, 2009 in his last game as an active player which is also the last match of the season, against Fiorentina, which the Rossoneri won 2–0.
Perugia went undefeated all season in 1978-1979 and still finished second in Italian Serie A to AC Milan. They won 11 games but drew a massive 19 games out of 30 matches they played that season. Perugia's defense ended up conceeding only 16 goals, led by Antonio Ceccarini and it was Perugia's best ever finish in the Italian Serie A history.
Portuguese football legend, Luis Filipe Madeira Caeiro Figo, commonly known as Luis Figo signed for both FC Parma and Juventus from Sportin Lisbon in 1994. The ensuing furore caused FIFA to ban him from the Italian Serie A for two years. FC Barcelona under Dutch coach, Johan Cruyff then stepped in with a £2.25 million transfer fee and the rest is history.
Kazuyoshi Miura became the first Japanese footballer to play in Italy, joining Genoa F.C. in the 1994–1995 Italian Serie A season. In his Italian stint, he played 21 times and scored just 1 goal, during the Genoa derby against USC Sampdoria. was the first Japanese recipient of the Asian Player of the Year award in 1993, an award presented annually by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).
The Italian goal bomber, Christian Vieri achieved a rare feat while he was playing active football. He is arguably the only footballer to have won the Pichichi and the Capocannoniere (top scorer) titles in Spain and Italy. He scored 24 goals in 24 Spanish Primera Liga matches for Atletico Madrid to win the Pichichi award in the 1997/1998 season while he won the Capocannoniere award at Inter Milan in the 2002/2003 season with 24 goals from 23 Italian Serie A matches.
Edinson "El Matador" Cavani, the Uruguayan international striker who scored 26 league goals for SSC Napoli in the 2010/2011 season, became the first Italian Serie A player to claim the match ball for scoring a hat-trick in a week 2 match of the 2011/2012 season against defending champion A.C. Milan at the Stadio San Paolo in Naples – a long-standing tradition in Britain but recently introduced in Italy.
Inter Milan with two goals from Diego Milito and one from Rodrigo Palacio on November 3 2012 handed Juventus FC a 3-1 Italian Serie A defeat at their new Juventus Stadium to end their 49 unbeaten run which spanned 3 seasons from the back end of the 2010/2011 season, with a 2-2 draw against Napoli.
Portuguese football legend, Luis Filipe Madeira Caeiro Figo, commonly known as Luis Figo signed for both FC Parma and Juventus from Sportin Lisbon in 1994. The ensuing furore caused FIFA to ban him from the Italian Serie A for two years. FC Barcelona under Dutch coach, Johan Cruyff then stepped in with a £2.25 million transfer fee and the rest is history.
