Italy striker Immobile: The king of the bombers is better than Ronaldo

Europe has a new football king: The former Dortmund-Flop Ciro Immobile made his major Triumph as the best striker of the continent almost to its birthplace. The 30-Year-old is from Torre Annunziata, a town in the Metropolitan area of Naples. And although Immobile with Lazio on the last Matchday of the Serie A in a 1:3 conceded in the case of the SSC Naples, cheered the Romans, the dark blond beard on Instagram in Golden letters, as "The King".

"I've loved this Sport since my Childhood, and it is exactly this love and passion for football are the ones who have brought me to me more and more of my dreams, and firmly believe," wrote Immobile on Sunday to Instagram and thanked Fans, teammates and his family.

On Saturday he could. with his goal in the 22 Minute, be sure that he had set with the old series-A record of 36 goals by the Argentinian Gonzalo Higuain. In Europe, ranking Immobile, Robert Lewandowski (34 goals) had already overtaken on the penultimate round. Third was world star Cristiano Ronaldo (31 goals) in front of Timo Werner (28 goals).

in Italy, the media-proclaimed real-estate record-breaking season on Sunday with the "historical" ("Corriere della Sera"). The football nation had to wait for over a decade, that a country man bring the "Golden Shoe" home. At all, this would have made in the past decades, only two Italians in front of him: Roma icon Francesco Totti (2006/07), and the former Bayern Star Luca Toni (AC Fiorentina) a year earlier.

Updated Date: 03 August 2020, 12:19