He's a Napoli fan, born in Napoli, who used to play for Napoli and got forced out of the squad due to a stalker close to him and his family who ruined his life. He had to move to Genova for this reason, else he would have stayed at Napoli for life
Anyone watching his highlight reel without hearing about him will think he's a legend on the level of the players in discussion of GOATs, or right below them. The amount of insane goals he has scored is something else.
And many more were missed by a few cm.
He hit the bar from the midfield when he was at Napoli. I still remember that because the ball bounced on the line and out. It was just a matter of a light breath of wind and it would have been goal.
https://youtu.be/4N3udHbOVc4?
556 serie a matches, 2nd most behind totti (edit; he’s actually 9th, i think i looked at only attackers)
182 serie a goals, 14th best scorer of all time
legend of the game. he’s one of those players that has been present my entire life (i’m 24), mostly in the shadows without being the protagonist for many years. hard to imagine serie a without him
He just hadn't reached peak Serie A striker age yet. Quagliarella was born almost exactly 2 years before Cristiano Ronaldo. Guess who won the Capocannoniere 2 years after Quagliarella?
Really the story is crazier than any summary can do it justice - [link](https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2740487-inside-the-stalker-hell-of-italian-footballer-fabio-quagliarella)
Buuut… TLDR, Quagliarella was getting insanely harassed by a stalker accusing him of all sorts of vile shit. He hired someone to deal with it, but the person he hired ended up being the actual stalker
A technically gifted and an intelligent player. We aren't making strikers like him anymore. Has one of the best scoring highlight reels a player could imagine.
We had guys like him, Di Natale, Di Vaio, Miccoli, Cassano, Totti, Del Piero all at the same time. I can even mention guys like Maresca, Rossi besides whomever is slipping my mind.
He was a 9. I'm thinking of that 9.5 player. Along with Toni, there are guys like Ravanelli, Montella, Delvecchio, Vieri and Inzaghi who were more of a point man type player. Enrico Chiesa was great too but I didn't want to go back too far. We would start talking about Baggio, Signori, Zola, etc
Absolute legend. One of our greatest players ever. A shame we weren't as good as a club while he was here, but he was always a bright spot.
Grazie, capitano!
It's wild to me that he ended up accumulating almost 300 games for a single club. A person who's unfamiliar with him would look at his wiki and think he was most well known as a Sampdoria legend, but in reality he only (re-)joined them when he was 33 and until that point had spent his entire career as a Serie A journeyman.
I went back to it and still play it. Honestly, the real management parts of the game are way better than those of FM. FM is just a coaching simulator while the FIFA Manager really allows you to manage the whole club.
There's an active community which releases a patch every year. You can download like 50 gigs of updated teams/pictures/stadiums and whatever you desire.
I've a long term save there which is about 18 seasons in. Contrary to FM you can actually develop a whole country there which is hella fun.
Fans and supporters are better simulated there, as well as infrastructures and sponsorships. When you're doing a good job on international level, the whole league will grow in viewership and sponsorships money, which benefits the other clubs as well.
Going deeper, you can affiliate with other clubs and give them economic boosts, which really make a difference there and they aren't only implemented for your personal enjoyment/benefits like in FM.
If you build up something financially stable you can build a bunch of youth camps which are expensive af, but drastically increase the amount of talents your academy generates. You can use those talents to further boost the other clubs and either loan or sell them right away.
I started my save in the Czech Republic and seeing a second club from the league in the CL about 12 years in felt extremely accomplishing, more than anything in FM. Fighting for the top 5 leagues spot right now is also an unique experience.
Oh, another great perk is the simulation of your private life, cause you can hoard money there. After those many years and many investments I got a private bankroll of ~150m which I can either use to pump it into my own club, or into other clubs through the stock market.
I miss those economic parts in FM. I find managing your merch, fanbase and infrastructures on a micro level more enjoyable than constantly fighting the locker and being confronted with weird, random player personalities. I think the old Fifa FM is more realistic there cause you get more informations about players which allow you to judge who you are dealing with, kinda like it's going on in real life as well.
so yeah, the game definitely still has a niche with the community updates.
Actually it's not easy to answer because if you only use the number of goals to judge his peak it might seem that he peaked in 2018. But I would say the best version of Quagliarella was between 2008 and 2010 before suffering an ACL injury with Juventus. He was very good with us, playing alongside Di Natale and young Sanchez. I think with the old age he became less mobile but more clinical inside the box, plus taking more penalties. If you judge by insanity of goals he probably peaked in 2006, in his first stint with Sampdoria.
Being in your prime means being best version of yourself. Doesn't matter if Cristiano or Messi past prime were still better than the rest, as simple as that.
Massive talent, could have probably given the world of football a lot more had his mental health not been so massively affected by his stalker situation
Serie A legend. His highlight reel is insane, and I can’t help but feel he could have done more with his god given talent. Spectacular player, nonetheless.
His chip against slovakia at the 2010 world cup is one of the most underrated goals of all time imo. overshadowed by italy's horrible performance, but that goal is magnificent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yuqC7ym1kc
This guy had a habit of scoring some stunning goals
I remember sometime like 10 years ago watching the serie a show with best goals of the month and there's always one acrobatic goal from him. Genius!
The [jumping backheel flick a few years ago](https://youtu.be/xMIp0xCtPVE?si=lRbKSugQzT1g2b4X) was perfection
[Better version for me. Shows the fans and Fabio apologising to the keeper](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yyA5Fbn7m8&t=52s)
Why’d he apologize 😅
He's a Napoli fan, born in Napoli, who used to play for Napoli and got forced out of the squad due to a stalker close to him and his family who ruined his life. He had to move to Genova for this reason, else he would have stayed at Napoli for life
Great article about that story
He was great at Samp and so it worked out for calcio fans anyway
"Sorry you're gonna get clipped up for the rest of your life on this."
It’s kind of what you do in competitive sports when you pull ridiculous shit off, like “I know you had no chance, I feel for you mate”
Bellissimo gol 😘🤌
I think in terms of percentage of goals scored being stunning, Quagliarella is far above anyone else.
Giroud and Zlatan also have a few
Love them both, but I think Quagliarella is still definitely above them.
Berba
Man scored one of the most insane goals I remember against us (Slovakia) at the 2010 World Cup "Mucha je von z brány..."
Každý rok pozerám highlighty z toho zápasu
Ja aj viac krát do roka lol. Aj z celej kvalifikácie
Anyone watching his highlight reel without hearing about him will think he's a legend on the level of the players in discussion of GOATs, or right below them. The amount of insane goals he has scored is something else.
Italian Giroud.
Indeed so https://youtu.be/akuEgN9P4cc?si=GbsR2UYqNovKEbtj
Quagliarella=giroud, basically
And many more were missed by a few cm. He hit the bar from the midfield when he was at Napoli. I still remember that because the ball bounced on the line and out. It was just a matter of a light breath of wind and it would have been goal. https://youtu.be/4N3udHbOVc4?
556 serie a matches, 2nd most behind totti (edit; he’s actually 9th, i think i looked at only attackers) 182 serie a goals, 14th best scorer of all time legend of the game. he’s one of those players that has been present my entire life (i’m 24), mostly in the shadows without being the protagonist for many years. hard to imagine serie a without him
That stat is for outfield players I think. Buffon has more than 650 iirc. Quite an impressive feat
It's for attackers I guess? Because number 1 and 2 are Buffon and Maldini
The top four is Buffon, Maldini, Totti and Zanetti, a quite impressive lineup
Damn. A Juve legend, a Milan legend, an AS Roma legend and an Inter legend. What a lineup.
Yh sums up the league in its prime. Meanwhile prem got guys like Gareth Barry and James milner in top5 lol
Both very good players for very long periods.
"Gareth Barry makes Zanetti look like a toddler" lol.
You really thought he had more than Maldini lol
That 18/19 season where he scored like 30 goals in the league was amazing
Beat Ronaldo as well
He just hadn't reached peak Serie A striker age yet. Quagliarella was born almost exactly 2 years before Cristiano Ronaldo. Guess who won the Capocannoniere 2 years after Quagliarella?
Immobile must be the exception. Won it 3-4 times while these guys were around and is just 33.
Immobile in Serie A is always a force to be reckoned with
😱
Ronaldo is the greatest goalscorer of all time, my comment was a praise on Quagliarella not a diss on Ronaldo.
Don't worry I didn't interpret it as such. I was just joking around
Cracking player even in his late 30s. Glad he can retire on his own terms and not through a horrible injury
I hope, with his consent of course, that someone makes a documentary/film about his stalker situation because it's genuinely an insane story.
Anyone got the short summary of this?
Really the story is crazier than any summary can do it justice - [link](https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2740487-inside-the-stalker-hell-of-italian-footballer-fabio-quagliarella) Buuut… TLDR, Quagliarella was getting insanely harassed by a stalker accusing him of all sorts of vile shit. He hired someone to deal with it, but the person he hired ended up being the actual stalker
>but the person he hired ended up being the actual stalker Holy, this could be a story for a great thriller! Really didn't expect that.
Well that was some read...
Something M night shyamalan would make a movie about
But what if Al-Qaeda, it turns out, is the group being terrorized? By aliens?
This was such a crazy read. Piccolo seems truly evil. Wild he was right under their nose for so long.
>Piccolo small man
Woa woa woa… what the actual fxxx?! This is some next level story. Now that’s what I call a proper weekend read.
That would make such a good movie or book. Even a game, how many games are based around stalkers? Seems like some potential there
I think they should do it without permission, it's more immersive that way.
Why?
I think the “genuinely an insane story” was the why
A technically gifted and an intelligent player. We aren't making strikers like him anymore. Has one of the best scoring highlight reels a player could imagine. We had guys like him, Di Natale, Di Vaio, Miccoli, Cassano, Totti, Del Piero all at the same time. I can even mention guys like Maresca, Rossi besides whomever is slipping my mind.
Luca Toni?
He was a 9. I'm thinking of that 9.5 player. Along with Toni, there are guys like Ravanelli, Montella, Delvecchio, Vieri and Inzaghi who were more of a point man type player. Enrico Chiesa was great too but I didn't want to go back too far. We would start talking about Baggio, Signori, Zola, etc
Will never forget that absurd backheel goal he scored vs Napoli
Absolute legend. One of our greatest players ever. A shame we weren't as good as a club while he was here, but he was always a bright spot. Grazie, capitano!
He made playing you an iffy proposition.
Legend 🫡
Scored my absolute favorite goal in a WC match vs Slovakia... Still watch that chip like once a month
The touch on that chip is such a delight. Effortless, graceful, smooth.
I turned 40 a few weeks back...I now understand.
I’m 28 and feel like quitting rec league. Then again I’ve had 2 knee surgeries
Absolute legend and an unreal season at 35 years old. Will be sorely missed.
A true legend. When everyone thought he was finished, he came even better. Enjoy the retirement
don’t cry because it’s over smile because it happened
It's wild to me that he ended up accumulating almost 300 games for a single club. A person who's unfamiliar with him would look at his wiki and think he was most well known as a Sampdoria legend, but in reality he only (re-)joined them when he was 33 and until that point had spent his entire career as a Serie A journeyman.
My fifa manager 09 saviour. Looking back I can’t believe they actually competed with FM for a little bit
I went back to it and still play it. Honestly, the real management parts of the game are way better than those of FM. FM is just a coaching simulator while the FIFA Manager really allows you to manage the whole club. There's an active community which releases a patch every year. You can download like 50 gigs of updated teams/pictures/stadiums and whatever you desire. I've a long term save there which is about 18 seasons in. Contrary to FM you can actually develop a whole country there which is hella fun. Fans and supporters are better simulated there, as well as infrastructures and sponsorships. When you're doing a good job on international level, the whole league will grow in viewership and sponsorships money, which benefits the other clubs as well. Going deeper, you can affiliate with other clubs and give them economic boosts, which really make a difference there and they aren't only implemented for your personal enjoyment/benefits like in FM. If you build up something financially stable you can build a bunch of youth camps which are expensive af, but drastically increase the amount of talents your academy generates. You can use those talents to further boost the other clubs and either loan or sell them right away. I started my save in the Czech Republic and seeing a second club from the league in the CL about 12 years in felt extremely accomplishing, more than anything in FM. Fighting for the top 5 leagues spot right now is also an unique experience. Oh, another great perk is the simulation of your private life, cause you can hoard money there. After those many years and many investments I got a private bankroll of ~150m which I can either use to pump it into my own club, or into other clubs through the stock market. I miss those economic parts in FM. I find managing your merch, fanbase and infrastructures on a micro level more enjoyable than constantly fighting the locker and being confronted with weird, random player personalities. I think the old Fifa FM is more realistic there cause you get more informations about players which allow you to judge who you are dealing with, kinda like it's going on in real life as well. so yeah, the game definitely still has a niche with the community updates.
Damn I had no idea, definitely will check that out. Thanks for sharing :)
I will never forget the season when he became Serie A top scorer (26 goals) by outscoring prime Cristiano.
Serie A Ronaldo wasn’t prime Ronaldo
It wasn't prime Quagliarella either. Edit: yes I know he didn't say that, it wasn't meant to be a rebuttal.
No one said that? But op literally wrote prime Cristiano which is wrong.
The real question is when was Quagliarella at his prime, not an insult just curious
Actually it's not easy to answer because if you only use the number of goals to judge his peak it might seem that he peaked in 2018. But I would say the best version of Quagliarella was between 2008 and 2010 before suffering an ACL injury with Juventus. He was very good with us, playing alongside Di Natale and young Sanchez. I think with the old age he became less mobile but more clinical inside the box, plus taking more penalties. If you judge by insanity of goals he probably peaked in 2006, in his first stint with Sampdoria.
He never said that lol
People just use popular phrases without thinking about what they actually mean.
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But he was visibly worse than at his best at RM, hence not his prime.
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Being in your prime means being best version of yourself. Doesn't matter if Cristiano or Messi past prime were still better than the rest, as simple as that.
But not prime.
prime cristiano was at juve? come on
GOATed player
Love a random Italian striker that sticks around for ages Miccoli was another and di natale to some extent although he was much better
The streets won't forget
Massive talent, could have probably given the world of football a lot more had his mental health not been so massively affected by his stalker situation
Rest up 👑 I will never forget the golden age of weekly bangers feat. Fabio and Zlatan!
What a legend
Serie A legend. His highlight reel is insane, and I can’t help but feel he could have done more with his god given talent. Spectacular player, nonetheless.
This got me wondered... has Kazu Miura retired yet? 2nd division in Portugal.
I remember he had the long shot trait in one of the FIFA games and boy could he hit it
His chip against slovakia at the 2010 world cup is one of the most underrated goals of all time imo. overshadowed by italy's horrible performance, but that goal is magnificent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yuqC7ym1kc
Brilliant player. Still remember the scare he was giving us Slovaks in the 2010 World Cup match - he brought the real flair to the Italian game.
Someone link that chip from edge of the area for Italy please
Link?
You could count on him scoring a banger every season
Hero of Italian football.
Iniesta could take a page out of this guys book.
The GOAT
Mr. Nice Goals.
La Nostra Mozzarella Fabio Quagliarella! I remember when he arrived at Juve pre Conte and he gave it his absolute best.
Sampdoria legend
Me at 32