Alberto Gilardino, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Italian footballer
Date of Birth: 05-Jul-1982
Place of Birth: Biella, Piedmont, Italy
Profession: association football player
Nationality: Italy
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
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About Alberto Gilardino
- Alberto Gilardino (Italian pronunciation: [al'b?rto d?ilar'di?no]; born 5 July 1982) is an Italian professional football manager and a former player who played as a striker, currently head coach of Serie C club Pro Vercelli. A prolific goalscorer, in Gilardino's early career he was compared to Filippo Inzaghi due to his opportunism, positional sense and eye for goal.
- Gilardino currently holds the record for being the tenth-youngest player to have scored 100 goals in Serie A, a feat which he managed at the age of 26 years and 105 days.
- With 188 Serie A goals, Gilardino is currently among the top 10 all-time scorers in Serie A history.
- His trademark goal celebration saw him get to his knees and play an imaginary violin.Gilardino has played for several Italian clubs throughout his career.
- He first came to prominence during his time at Parma due to his consistent goalscoring, which earned him the Serie A Young Footballer of the Year Award in 2004, followed by the Serie A Footballer of the Year and the Serie A Italian Footballer of the Year Awards in 2005, as well as a move to Milan.
- With Milan, he won the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League, the 2007 UEFA Super Cup and the 2007 FIFA Club World Cup.
- Gilardino has also played for Chinese club Guangzhou Evergrande, with whom he won the 2014 Chinese Super League. Gilardino has represented Italy at under-19, under-20, under-21, and senior levels.
- Gilardino was a part of the Italian side that won the 2004 UEFA Under-21 Championship, where he became the tournament's leading goalscorer.
- He was also named as the best player of the tournament, and one of two strikers in the UEFA Team of the Tournament.
- Later that year, he also won a bronze medal with Italy at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
- He is the all-time top scorer of the Italy U-21 national team with 19 goals in 30 appearances.
- At senior level, he was part of the 2006 FIFA World Cup-winning squad, and has also participated at the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup, the 2010 World Cup and the 2013 Confederations Cup, where he won a bronze medal.
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