Giampaolo Pazzini

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Personal information
Giampaolo Pazzini

Date of birth	August 2, 1984 (age 22)
Place of birth	Pescia, Italy
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	ACF Fiorentina
Number	29
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2002-2005 2005-	Atalanta Fiorentina	51 (12) 57 (11)
National team²
2000-2001 2002 2002-2003 2003 2004-	Italy Under-16 Italy Under-18 Italy Under-19 Italy Under-20 Italy Under-21	12 (4) 1 (0) 9 (6) 1 (0) 17 (5)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17 March 2007. ² National team caps and goals correct as of 26 March 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Giampaolo Pazzini (born August 2, 1984 in Pescia) is an Italian football (soccer) player, who currently plays for Fiorentina, having been transferred there from Atalanta in January 2005, with Valeri Bojinov from U.S. Lecce.

1 Club Career
2 International Career
3 External links
4 References

[edit] Club Career

Giampaolo Pazzini's high point of the 2005/2006 season was his spectacular equalising header against Juventus. Pazzini also struck a wonderfully powerful shot beating Juventus keeper, Gianluigi Buffon, to cap a traditional Italian counter attack, in the 2004/2005 season.

[edit] International Career

Pazzini is currently a member of the Italy Under-21 team.

Pazzini was the star of the first ever professional match at the new Wembley Stadium in a game against England Under-21 on 24 March 2007. The Fiorentina forward set three records in the 3-3 draw; he scored the first and the fastest ever goal at Wembley (in both its old and new incarnations) after 28 seconds and went on to score the first ever hat-trick in 68 minutes.^[1]

Season	Club	Country	Competition	Apps.	Goals
2003/04	Atalanta	Italy	Serie B	39	9
2004/05	Atalanta	Italy	Serie A	12	3
2004/05	Fiorentina	Italy	Serie A	14	3
2005/06	Fiorentina	Italy	Serie A	26	5
2006/07	Fiorentina	Italy	Serie A	17	3