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This man, three ups and downs.

"Life is like chocolate"-especially for Inmobile.

By v kbn06Published 2 years ago 5 min read
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In Lazio's 2-0 victory over Brescia in the 37th round of Serie A, Italian striker Imobile scored a winning goal at the end of the season. With this goal, he scored 35 goals in Serie A this season, thus surpassing the Bundesliga golden boot Levan and getting rid of Cristiano Ronaldo, most likely to enjoy this season's European golden boots.

However, the new European golden boots were greeted by many comments about "the most gold boots in history". His historical status may be far inferior to that of his competitors, but a man's history of struggle is worthy of respect.

When he was still playing for the Sorento youth team, he would not have thought that one day he would be appointed by the Juventus coach; when he spent his youth in Pescara with Sanjie, he would not have thought that one day he would get the golden boots of Serie An in Turin; and when he was widely questioned in Borussia Dortmund and Seville, he might not have imagined that one day he would soar like a blue eagle in the sky of Rome.

The south of Italy is always bathed in sunshine and classicality, and football is full of blood and romance.

On February 20, 1990, Immobile was born in the coastal town of Torre Annunziata, more than ten kilometers southeast of Naples.

The young InMobil, who was obsessed with the golden duo of Alessandro Del Piero and Trezeguet, made his first stop at Torre Annunziata's local football school and then joined the Salenitana youth team, but did not make a name for himself there.

Football teenagers will not be discouraged by setbacks. At the age of 12, Sorento Youth team, which is more than ten kilometers away from home because of Mobilay, has gradually become the top scorer of the club's U16 youth team.

In the 2007 / 08 season, Juve scouts looked admiringly after Mobil scored 30 goals in the U17 league and scored twice against Turin.

Yes, few fans know that InMobil also has a short zebra resume.

In the impression of most fans, Inmobile is known as the "three heroes of Pescara", and now he, together with Villatti and Insinie, has joined the Italian national team.

Pescara played gorgeous football under Zeman in 2011, while Mobil won the Serie B Golden Boot with 28 goals in 37 appearances and six assists.

Then, the three heroes went to the end of the world respectively.

Instead of being favored by Juve for his high-profile performance in Serie B, Mobil joined another Turin team after a season of wandering in Genoa. In the 14th season of 2013, he broke his nearly 10-month shortage of goals in Serie A. then hat-tricks and brilliant goals came in handy, scoring six goals in a row.

The times made heroes, and the right to fire given by Turin made the football youth in southern Italy shine, crowning the golden boots of Serie A with 22 goals in a single season.

Continuously won the Serie B and Serie A golden boots, because Mobilai is boundless scenery, but this beautiful journey is honed before and after the trough.

In fact, Inmobile made his debut in Serie A for Juve, and the 19-year-old replaced his idol Alessandro Del Piero in 2008-09.

It was originally the moment when Mobilay's dream came true, but soon he was rented out to Serie B, played for Siegel and Groseto, and was once left out in the cold by Conte, who was still a young coach at that time, leaving a comment of "embarrassment and great use".

In 2014, Inmobile experienced another setback, and as Italy's striker hoped, his performance in the life-and-death battle with Uruguay was a disaster, which epitomized Prandelli's team, and the Azzurri were out of the World Cup for the second time in a row.

Fortunately, Borussia Dortmund threw an olive branch to him because Mobilay still had the opportunity to join a strong team through the halo protection of the Serie A golden boots.

As a result, the transfer of the strong team did not become the starting point for the eagle to spread its wings, but it was a prelude to the storm.

Inmobile who left Serie A was like a fish out of water. Without cake, he could not replace Levan's role in Dodt fulcrum, and the Hornet even fell into the Bundesliga relegation zone.

Disappointed fans satirized him as the "motionless king" (due to Mobilay's nickname "motionless peak"), and the Serie A Golden Boot scored only three goals all season and could only move to Sevilla sadly.

In La Liga, Inmobile still failed to find himself and did not score his first goal until three months after joining the club and was immediately loaned back to Turin, where he had once flown.

Two seasons, three leagues, accompanied by parallel attacks, for most 26-year-old shooters, the experience of such ups and downs may not recover.

There is nothing more painful in life than having everything and losing everything, climbing the peak and falling to the bottom.

Whether a person is strong or not is reflected in the choice of adversity and self-redemption.

As the saying goes, "I always meet the most beautiful scenery in the deepest despair."

On July 27, 2016, the next chocolate of his life was waiting for him to taste because of Mobile's move to Lazio.

At that time, probably no one thought that the inactive summit once referred to by thousands of people would usher in a second spring.

In Lazio's debut season, he scored 23 league goals, surpassing his Golden Boots season. In 2017, he scored 20 goals in 11 Serie A games, and shared the golden boots with Icardi with 29 goals. After a "brief downturn" in the 201819 season, Imobile finally ushered in the highest performance of his career this season.

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