Fabio Quagliarella

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Personal information
Fabio Quagliarella
Date of birth	October 31, 1983 (age 23)
Place of birth	Castellammare di Stabia, Italy
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Sampdoria
Number	27
Youth clubs
2001-2002	Torino
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2002 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005 2005-2006 2006-present	Florentia Viola (on loan) Chieti (on loan) Torino Udinese Ascoli (co-ownership) Sampdoria (co-ownership)
National team²
2007-	Italy	1 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. ² National team caps and goals correct as of 04:01, 29 March 2007 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Fabio Quagliarella (born 31 October 1983 in Castellammare di Stabia, province of Naples) is an Italian football striker.

Quagliarella started his career at Torino. After being loaned to a lower division club, he returned to Torino in 2004, and scored 7 goals in Serie B, plus one goal against Ascoli in the promotion playoff's first legs. But financial problems forced Torino stay in Serie B, and Quagliarella joined Udinese for a year, before signing for U.C. Sampdoria, for whom he has already scored 11 goals in the 2006-2007 season, including 2 spectacular ones against Atalanta as well as La Gazzetta dello Sport's goal of the week against Chievo.He also scored 2 goals in the coppia italia in 2006-2007. Only small in height this young striker seems to have a great deal of potential; and seemed to be set for his first Azzurri callup for a friendly against Romania in February, only for the match to be cancelled due to fan riots in the Serie A that weekend. Later he got his first call up to the Azzurri in march for a euro 2008 qualifier against Scotland, and made his debut as a substitute (substite Luca Toni in 87 min.).