Name: Christian Vieri
Nickname: BOBO
Nationality: Italy
Date of birth: July 12, 1973
Height: 185cm
Weight: 82kg
Position on the pitch: striker
No. Position: Striker
Number: Club 17 National Team 9
Team: Atalanta Italy
First Serie A match: 2:0 home win over Fiorentina for Torino on Dec. 15, 1991
First international match: 3:0 home win over Moldova for Italy on March 29, 1997
While playing in the Serie A, he was a member of the Italian team that won the match against Fiorentina. p>
For whom he played: Prato (until 1990), Torino (1990-1992.11), Pisa (1992.11-1993), Ravenna (1993-1994), Venice (1994-1995), Atalanta (1995-1996), Juventus (1996-1997), Spain Atletico Madrid (1997-1998), Lazio (1998-1999), Inter Milan (1999-2005), AC Milan (2005-2006), Ligue 1 Monaco (2006)
Player details
Christian Vieri was born on July 1973 Born on July 12, 1973 in Bologna, Italy, his father, Robert Vieri, was one of the best strikers in Italian soccer in the 1960s and 1970s. Because of his father's coaching, Vieri spent his childhood in Australia, where his favorite sport was cricket, and the star he admired most was the Australian cricketer mobilized Alan Bird. Vieri also played rugby for a while, which contributed to his invulnerable physique.
In 1989, Vieri returned to Italy alone and began his professional soccer career with Prato in the third division. There, he was picked up by Torino Calcio and played for Torino in the Italian Serie A the following year.
Vieri made his Serie A debut as a substitute for Torino on December 15, 1991, in a 2-0 victory over Fiorentina.
In November 1992, Vieri was sold to Serie B side Pisa Calcio,**** scoring two goals.
Then he moved to Ravenna Calcio, where he began his dream season, scoring 12 goals in total***.
Then he was sold to Venezia A.C., where he scored 11 goals.
After playing one year each in Pisa, Ravenna and Venice in the second division, the maturing Vieri caught the attention of Atalanta B.C. and was sold to Atalanta A.C., where he scored seven goals in the 95-96 season***.
At the end of the season, Atalanta signed Inzaghi from Parma, while Vieri was picked up by Juventus and joined the "Zebras" along with his brother Maximiliano. With Zinedine Zidane and Piero behind him, Vieira really showed his dominance as a super center forward. That year, he made 23 Serie A appearances, scoring 8 goals and played 10 European matches, scoring 6 goals.
April 6, 1997 at the San Siro stadium, that is AC Milan's 100 years of history of the most painful home memories, Juventus 6-1 massacre of the red and black army, Vieyri two strides away from the Baresi breakthrough scored the footage announced the Milan legend of the era of the defender's end. Juventus continued to dominate in Europe this season, except for the Champions League final, where Vieira wasted several chances and Juve lost 1-3 to Borussia Dortmund.
On March 29, 1997, Vieri was recruited to the national team by Maldini Sr. and made his blue debut against Moldova.
In the summer of '97, when Juventus acquired Serie A's top scorer, Inzaghi the Great, Vieira was bought for $16.5 million by Atletico Madrid's begrudging president, Hill.
In La Liga, Vieira scored with almost horrific efficiency, and despite missing many rounds due to injury, he ended up wearing the Golden Boot with 24 goals in 24 games.
In the 1998 World Cup in France, Vieira was Italy's regular center forward, with Robert Baggio or Alessandro Del Piero forming the front line, scoring five goals in five games to win the Silver Boot.
After the World Cup, Vieri moved to Lazio for $50 million, or 90 billion lire, giving rise to the nickname "Mr. 90 billion".
In the 98-99 season, he scored 12 goals in Serie A and one in Europe, but Lazio lost the league title at the last minute and only won the Cup, which was not enough to satisfy the world's No. 1 striker Vieri.
In the summer of 2000, Vieri joined Inter Milan, creating the highest transfer fee in world football at the time - $50 million, Moratti finally realized the dream of Vieri-Ronaldo Baggio combination.
In 2003, he became Serie A's top scorer with 24 goals.
While playing for Inter, he represented the Italian national team at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and the 2004 European Championships.
Vieri is regarded as Italy's greatest striker of the last decade and the World Cup's most efficient goalscorer, and in March 2004 he was named by Pele as one of the 125 greatest soccer players of today.
Changing teams 10 times in 11 years, Vieri was nicknamed the "Prodigal Son of Football", but no one expected him to stay at Inter Milan for six years, where he scored his 100th Serie A goal and his 100th goal for Inter... The most valuable years of his career were spent with the Blue and Blacks. 122 goals were scored for Inter in six years, 102 in the league, 12 in Europe and eight in the Coppa Italia.
With the rise of newcomers such as Adriano and Martins, the injury-prone and overpaid Vieri terminated his contract with the club on July 1, 2005, and joined city rivals AC Milan as a free agent on July 5th.
During his time at AC Milan, Vieira was in a slump, failing to get a starting position in the red and black, and was always at a disadvantage in the competition with Shevchenko, Gilardino and D'Inzaghi. Vieira scored one goal in eight Serie A appearances, and failed to score in five Champion's League appearances, with his other goal coming in the Coppa Italia. Under the terms of his contract, the club has to pay pay up to 12 million euros a year for this.
Under the circumstances, AC Milan were reluctant to pay a huge salary for a striker who was in poor form and scoring inefficiently, and Vieira was hoping to secure more playing time through a move that would ensure he was included in Germany's World Cup squad.
Vieri signed a contract with Ligue 1 club Monaco in January 2006 until June 2007, but still missed the World Cup through injury. But just six months later, the two sides completed the termination of his contract by agreement.
On July 6, 2006, Sampdoria officially announced that Christian Vieri would play for Sampdoria in the 2006-07 season. Vieri's father used to play for Sampdoria, so Vieri also set his return to Serie A as Sampdoria's destination. Vieira has signed a new contract with Sampdoria for one year. However, he has not trained with the team once since signing the contract, as he has been on vacation and recuperating from a knee problem, and there was even gossip that he would officially retire and enter show business. The two sides finally agreed to an amicable termination of his contract not long ago after continued dissatisfaction with the club.
After a brief one-month stay at Sampdoria, Vieira returned to Atalanta, where he had been playing. After more than a year in Atalanta without scoring a goal, Vieira announced the resurrection of the former Serie A top scorer with a stonewall shot against Siena in the 35th round of the 05-06 season.
According to Digital Sport Italia, Bobo's goal percentage of 0.822 tops the Serie A table.
Technical Statistics 2003/2004 Season
Serie A, Champions League
Appearances 22 5
Playing time 1727 mins 408
Goals 13 2
Technical Statistics 2002/2003 Season
Serie A, Coppa Italia, Champions League
Playing time 23 0 12
Appearances Appearances 23 0 12
Minutes played 1948 0 1038
Goals scored 24(2) 0 3(0)
Career stats
Season? Club Appearances? Goals
1989/90 Prato 0? 0
1990/91 Torino 0? 0
1991/92 Torino 6? 1
1992/93 Torino 1? 0
1992.11 Pisa 18?2
1993/94 Ravenna? 32?12
1994/95 Venice? 29?11
1995/96 Atlanta? 19?7
1996/97 Juventus? 23?8
1997/98 Atlético Madrid 24?24
1998/99 Lazio? 22?12
99/2000 Inter Milan? 20?13?
2000/01 Inter Milan 27 18
2001/02 Inter Milan 21 22
2002/03 Inter Milan 23 24
2003/04 Inter Milan 22 13
2004/05 Inter Milan 18 13
2005/06 AC Milan 7 1
2005/06 Monaco 4 3
Individual honors
Super Cup for Juventus in 1996
La Liga top scorer in 1998 [24 goals]
Silver Boot award in the 1998 World Cup [5 goals]
1999 Lazio won the European Cup Winners' Cup
Man of the Year 1999, Best Italian Player
Best Italian Player 2002;
Golden Boot Award for the 2002-03 Serie A season.
Vieri the playboy
Vieri is a famous playboy in the Italian soccer world, with countless girlfriends, known as "girlfriends change every month". And the women he is associated with are usually celebrities in the Italian entertainment industry. But he has the longest relationship with Italian celebrity host Canali, who is also one of the few girlfriends the Inter power forward has publicly admitted.
Italian weekly People published a list of Vieri's rumored girlfriends in 2005, ranging from his truest love, Canalis, to Brazilian model Lesa, as well as Santorelli, Seredova, movie star Bellucci, actress Marini, model Campbell, footballer Korner, Australian model Kelly, dancer Bache, TV beauty Massola, beauty queen Selva. Gia De Luca, Miss Italy 1997 runner-up Vicenza Carcacci, and the latest beauty queen Melissa, to name a few,**** a total of 12, enough to make up a starting lineup plus substitutes.
Elisabetta Canalis
Italian TV personality, model
In the past countless beautiful women, Vieri really love only Canalis. As an Italian television station 1 "on the camera" program host, Canalis have access to more than Vieri outside the soccer big shot, jealous Vieri so often suspected that she has a different belongings, especially in Canalis shooting nude calendars after it is furious.
Canaris was a woman who drove Italian men crazy. A poll on Italian state television entitled "Who is the ideal woman in your heart" showed that nearly half of the male viewers were attracted to Canalis. But no matter what kind of temptation she faced, Canalis always had only one Bobo in her heart. But Vieri doesn't appreciate this. He had intimate contact with many beautiful women in the Apennines, which made Canalis in the feelings of repeated injuries. 2003 the end of the year, after four years of break-ups, after the exhaustion of the love struggle, Canalis finally said goodbye to Bobo.
Canalis was born on September 12, 1978 in Sassari, Italy, the ordinary Apennine girl came to Milan after being discovered by talent scouts, and became famous on the TV screen. 2000, through the Italian fashion magazine "MAX", Canalis got acquainted with Vieri, who is in Inter Milan. The two in February 2001 public romance, but in the summer, Canalis suddenly decided to end the relationship with Bobo, two months later, the two quickly back together, this is the first time the two broke up and make up. 2002 World Cup for Vieri is a huge blow, but emotionally a bigger blow to the nude calendar from Canalis, since the fall of 2002, "MAX" launched Canalis After the fall of 2002 "MAX" nude calendar, the two broke up again, until the next spring again "MAX" set up, the two once again reunited. 2003 season after the end of their respective vacations, Vieri rushed to the beach in Vermont, still did not persuade Canalis, this is the third time that the two broke up.
During their love affair, Bobo admitted under pressure from reporters that "she was the only woman I wanted", while Canalis said: "I think of Bobo every night". For this reason, the two once planned to buy a mansion in Milan, and the wedding is also in preparation. The two had planned to buy a mansion in Milan and a wedding was in the pipeline.
The love affair between Vieri and Canaris, after the media's push and pull, but still difficult to complete, seems to be destined for this life. After saying goodbye to Canaris, Vieri spends almost every night in the city, to escape from the inner boredom.