Di Natale

Honours 2009/2010 2010/2011 2011/2012 2012/2013 Antonio Di Natale (Italian pronunciation: ; born 13 October 1977) is an Italian football coach and former professional player who played as a striker. After being a member of the Empoli youth side since 1994, Di Natale started his professional career with the Empoli senior side in 1996, and remained with the club until 2004, aside from brief loan spells with Iperzola, Varese and Viareggio. During his time with Empoli, he helped the club to achieve Serie A promotion during the 2001–02 Serie B season, scoring 16 goals. His breakthrough came during the 2002–03 Serie A season, as he scored 13 goals in the league and helped Empoli avoid relegation. Despite being unable to find the net as regularly or save Empoli from relegation the following season, his performances and consistent goalscoring earned him a transfer to Udinese in 2004. During his time with Udinese, Di Natale's skill, leadership and ability to both score and create many goals played a key role in helping the club to third and fourth-place finishes in Serie A and qualify for the UEFA Champions League. In 2007, he was named the club's captain. Di Natale's consistent goalscoring with Udinese saw him reach double figures for nine consecutive league seasons. He won the Serie A top goalscorer award in 2010 and 2011, and was also awarded the Serie A Italian Footballer of the Year award for his performances in 2010. A late bloomer, unlike most strikers, he enjoyed his most prolific seasons in front of goal well after age 30; between 2009 and 2011, Lionel Messi (82) and Cristiano Ronaldo (86) were the only two players to have scored more league goals than Di Natale (67). Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License - Full article

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Udinese Tournament Lineups This player + Serie A 2004/2005 38 32 7 - UEFA Cup 2005/2006 4 2 1 - Serie A 2005/2006 38 35 7 1 Champions League 2005/2006 6 6 3 - Serie A 2006/2007 38 31 9 2 Serie A 2007/2008 38 36 15 2 Coppa Italia 2008/2009 2 1 - 1 Serie A 2008/2009 38 22 10 2 UEFA Cup 2008/2009 12 7 1 2 Coppa Italia 2009/2010 4 3 - - Serie A 2009/2010 38 35 23 6 Coppa Italia 2010/2011 3 1 - - Serie A 2010/2011 38 36 23 5 Champions League Qualifying 2011/2012 2 2 1 - Coppa Italia 2011/2012 1 1 1 - Serie A 2011/2012 38 36 19 4 Europa League 2011/2012 10 4 3 1 Champions League Qualifying 2012/2013 2 2 - - Coppa Italia 2012/2013 1 1 - - Serie A 2012/2013 38 33 19 4 Europa League 2012/2013 6 6 3 - Europa League Qualifying 2013/2014 4 4 2 - Coppa Italia 2013/2014 4 2 1 - Serie A 2013/2014 38 32 13 4 Coppa Italia 2014/2015 3 1 4 - Serie A 2014/2015 38 33 13 1 Coppa Italia 2015/2016 3 2 1 1 Serie A 2015/2016 38 23 1 1 Empoli Tournament Lineups This player + Serie A 2002/2003 34 27 13 - Serie A 2003/2004 34 33 5 - Italy (National Team) Tournament Lineups This player + Euro Qualifying 2008 12 8 2 - Friendlies 2008 3 3 2 - Euro 2008 4 2 - - UEFA World Cup Qualifiers 2010 10 7 2 - Friendlies 2009 6 2 - - Friendlies 2010 5 3 - - World Cup 2010 3 3 1 - Friendlies 2012 4 1 - - Euro 2012 6 5 1 -