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Christian Vieri (born 12 July 1973 in Bologna) is
an Italy|Italian football (soccer)|football
player, a striker who currently plays for Italian
club A.C. Milan|AC Milan and the Italy national
football team|Italian national team.

Christian Vieri has a brother called Maximilano
Vieri, he is also a professional footballer.
Maximilano is an Austrailian international.
Vieri was raised in Sydney, Australia, one of the
worlds largest Italian communities.  His father
played for Sydney based Italian Marconi Stallions.
 Vieri played for Marconi Juniors when he was a
child but his family soon moved back to Italy. As
a result of living in Australia, Vieri has stated
that his greatest sporting hero is Allan Border.
Incidentally, he could have easily made a career
out of cricket rather than football, but he chose
football. 

Vieri started his playing career at A.C.
Prato|Prato, a small club in Serie C1 in 1989. 
While there, he was spotted by Torino
Calcio|Torino and played his first Serie A game
the next year for the Turin giants.  Vieri made
six appearances and appeared in the Coppa Italia.
In November 1992, he was sold to Serie B club,
Pisa Calcio|Pisa, scoring two goals.  Another
season went by, he then kicked off his wonder
first season with U.S. Ravenna|Ravenna in Serie B,
scoring 12 goals.  Sold to Venezia A.C.|Venezia in
Serie B, scoring 11.  And then another move for
the youngster, to Atalanta B.C.|Atalanta where he
only had seven goals. His change of luck came when
he was spotted by Juventus in the 1996/1997
season.  He made 23 appearances and scored eight
goals in the Serie A, and six goals in ten matches
in Europe.

Vieri was on the move once again, this time it was
Spain and Atletico Madrid.  This is where the
Vieri name became a trademark for Italian football
and with the Wc|1998 just around the corner, he
could be Italy's strike partner along side Roberto
Baggio or Alessandro Del Piero.  Amazingly, he
scored a total of 24 goals in 24 appearances for
Atletico, five goals from seven appearances in
Europe which lead him to the win the Spanish
Pichichi|top scoring reign.

After the world cup he moved to S.S. Lazio|Lazio,
where he was outstanding in his first season,
scoring 12 goals in Serie A and one in Europe,
winning the Cup Winners' Cup. But it all changed,
when Vieri was spotted by Internazionale|Inter
Milan, and millionaire Massimo Moratti, who once
signed Ronaldo for the world record transfer fee.
Vieri became the richest footballer on the planet
once he agreed with the move to Inter Milan. 

Vieri has been at Inter Milan since 1999. In 2003,
he led Serie A in scoring with 24 goals. As of the
end of 2004, he has scored 22 goals in 43 matches
for Italy and played for his country at the 1998
and Wc|2002 (he scored five in 1998 and four in
2002), as well as Ec2|2004.  Vieri is still
considered as Italy's greatest striker over the
past decade, and one of Italy's most prolific
World Cup goalscorers. He was named by Pelé as
one of the FIFA 100|125 greatest living
footballers in March 2004.  

In July 2005, both Vieri and Inter Milan came to a
mutual agreement to terminate his contract with
the club. He was then signed by cross-town rivals
AC Milan.