The Italian Christian-Bobo Vieri was one of the best strikers of his time - in the 90s of the last century, he blazed and burned in the Apennines, from Turin, Pisa, Ravenna and Venice, through Atalanta and Juventus, to Lazio and Inter, where he reached his peak.
He didn't stop, he continued to play for Milan, Sampdoria, Fiorentina, and again for Atalanta, where he finally ended his career.
In total, he scored 236 goals in almost 500 games in his career.
He was linked to Italy, but he also had two outings - the first, in his prime, when he played the 1997/98 season in Atletico Madrid, and the second, later, in 2006, in Monaco, but he was well past his prime.
The soccer icon of Juventus, Inter and Lazio, the striker who scored 23 goals in the jersey of the Italian national team, who was called the "goal doctor", described in an interview the year he spent in Spain, in the jersey of Atlético.
Football in Primera suited him, almost like Italian football, and Madrid, on the other hand, was a challenging city...
"At Juventus I was a real professional, while in Madrid, on the other hand, I went out every night. It was a way of life there. Everyone was going out, including me. What did you expect, that I was the only one staying at home? We would go out for a late dinner, then drinks. And that's how it would go... Despite all that, I was the best scorer in the league,'' Vijeri told TyC Sports.
At the then "Vicente Calderon", he scored 24 league goals, a total of 29 in 32 games in the "colćoneros" jersey in all competitions, but left after one season, due to a dispute with the then coach of Atlético Radomir Antic.
He then played one season for Lazio, and then finally settled in Inter, stayed for six seasons, scored over 100 goals...
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