ROBERTO BAGGIO ,OR DIVINE PONYTAIL.

Roberto Baggio or as fans lovingly called him THE DIVINE PONYTAIL, because of the ponytail he had for a long time. He was born in ITALY on18/2/1967 . He has played for many ITALIAN clubs, he started with the clubVICENZA, FIORENTINA, JUVENTUS, A.C. MILAN BOLOGNA, INTER, and BRESICIA. When he was transfered from FIORENTINA to JUVENTUS for asum of 12 MILLION DOLLARS which was a world record at that time. There was a major riot on the streets of FLORANCE in front of the FIORENTINA club leading to an out cry against the president and board of FIORENTINA well over sixty people were injured. BAGGIO did well at JUVENTUS till a youngster arrived from the youth team called ALESSANDRO DEL PIERO , the coach then decided that BAGGIO was no longer the only striker they could play with and he was sold to A.C. MILAN. Though there wasa rumour that MANCHESTER UNITED and BLACKBURN were intrested in BAGGIO. But nothing worked out.

In the year 1997 BAGGIO scored a total of 22 goals for BOLOGNA, so he got a call for the 1998 world cup in FRANCE. Which was his third world cup.

BAGGIO has scored the most goals for an ITALIAN in a world cup career which is nine goals.

In the 1990 world cup BAGGIO had always been their penalty taker, free kick specialist, and corner taker. But in the 1990 world cup he allowed SALVATORE SCHILLACHE to score agoal and so win the golden boot.

In the 1994 world cup in the U.S.A. He missed a penalty in the final.

In the 1998 world cup in FRANCE the coach CEASER MALDINI, USED del PIERO more and each time BAGGIO came on ITALY played better. In fact BAGGIO would have won the cup forITALY with a super volley but it missed going in and it would have been a golden goal.

CEASER MALDINI is still blamed for using BAGGIO less. Even after missing a penalty verses BRAZIL in the final he took the first penalty for ITALY in 1998 cup.

He is th first ITALIAN footballer to score300 goals in the last fifty years , he is the third player to score 300 goals. those other are SILVIO PIOLA 364 goals, GIUSEPPEMEZZA 338 goals

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