Diego Alberto Milito

Profile Football Stars | Diego Alberto Milito | Diego Milito started playing at Argentine first division team Racing Club in 1999, where he won the 2001 Apertura tournament.  Diego Alberto Milito who plays an Argentine footballer as a striker for the Italian Serie A team Internazionale.

At the beginning of 2004, Milito moved to Italian second division Genoa. After two very Successful seasons, where he scored 33 goals in 59 matches in Italy, Genoa were relegated down to Serie C1 as a punishment for an alleged match-fixing case in the final match of the 2004-05 season. Due to this, Milito was forced to leave Genoa and joined his brother Gabriel Ultimately at Spanish club Real Zaragoza. Milito was one of the top Scorers in the La Liga 2006-07 season. He scored 23 goals, two less than the top goalscorer Ruud van Nistelrooy and three behind the European Golden Boot winner Francesco Totti. Genoa won this game 2-0 with Milito assisting the first goal and scoring the second. On 9 November, Milito scored his first hat-trick for Genoa in the 4-0 victory against Reggina. He finished the season with 24 goals in 31 league appearances, placing him second behind Zlatan Ibrahimovic in the Capocannonieri scoring title.

On 20 May 2009, La Gazzetta dello Sport That confirmed Diego Milito was transferred to Internazionale (alongside Thiago Motta). Subsequently on 29 August, in his first ever Milan derby in Serie A, Milito assisted two goals and scored a penalty, his first league goal of the season, to cap off a 4-0 victory. Later, on 13 September, he scored his second league goal in a 2-0 home win against Parma . In the next league match against Cagliari he scored both goals for Inter in a 1-2 away win. These two goals placed him at the top of the all-time Serie A scoring charts for best strike rate, with 28 goals in 35 games, giving him an average of 0.8 goals per game. Milito continued his fine run of form with another goal in the next league match against Napoli, scoring the second goal after Samuel Eto'o scored in the first minute, a game That They won 3-1.

Milito scored two goals on his international debut against Uruguay in 2003, but only intermittently during the Appeared Following years, and was omitted from the 2006 World Cup squad. On 29 May 2011 Milito scored a goal in the final of the Italian Cup to help Internazionale beat Palermo 3-1. However during the 2011-2012 Serie A season he Begun to Regain his form, scoring a goal in Inter-Lecce 4-1, two goals in Inter-Parma 5-0, and a Very Important goals in Inter's 1-0 victory against Milan Inter putting back into the title race.

Personal information
Full name Diego Alberto Milito
Date of birth 12 June 1979 (age 32)
Place of birth Bernal, Argentina
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position Striker

Club information
Current club Internazionale
Number 22

Senior career
years Team
1999-2003 Racing 137 (34)
Genoa 2003-2005 59 (33)
Genoa 2005-2008 108 (53)
Genoa 2008-2009 31 (24)
2009 - Internazionale 79 (40)

National team
2003 - Argentina 24 (4)

Honours

Club
Racing Club
    Argentine Primera División (1): Apertura 2001

Internazionale
    Serie A (1): 2009-10
    Coppa Italia (2): 2009-10, 2010-11
    Supercoppa Italiana (1): 2010
    UEFA Champions League (1): 2010
    FIFA Club World Cup (1): 2010

Individual
    Guerin d'Oro (1): 2008-09
    2010 UEFA Champions League Final: UEFA Man of the Match
    UEFA Club Forward of the Year (1): 2009-10
    UEFA Club Footballer of the Year (1): 2009-10
    Serie A Footballer of the Year (1): 2009-10
    Serie A Foreign Footballer of the Year (1): 2009-10