Fabrizio Miccoli

Fabrizio Miccoli is exactly the kind of footballer I root for. Standing just 168 cm, he had no business outscoring giants, yet he buried 103 goals across 259 Serie A matches for Perugia, Juventus, Fiorentina and Palermo. That tally speaks of touch, timing and a striker's instinct rather than physique. His loan to Benfica showed his range, and returning to play for his hometown Lecce late in his career tells me his roots ran deep. I love watching small, clever forwards thread through defenders to score. Miccoli was that player, a southern Italian spark who made the game feel joyful.

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Name (English)

Fabrizio Miccoli

Name (Japanese)

ファブリツィオ・ミッコリ

Reading

ふぁぶりつぃお・みっこり

Born

June 27, 1979 (age 47)

Origin

Nardò, province of Lecce, Italy

Height

168 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Goat

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrizio%20Miccoli
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%96%E3%83%AA%E3%83%84%E3%82%A3%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9F%E3%83%83%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136959

Tags

• province of Lecce
• association football player

Last updated

September 23, 2026

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