Ciro Immobile was born in Torre Annunziata on 20 February 1990. He began his professional career at Juventus and made his Serie A debut for the Bianconeri on 14 March 2009 prior to his first Champions League appearance on 25 November later on in the same year. He went on to represent Siena and Grosseto, but it was during his time with Pescara where he really came on in leaps and bounds. Together with Insigne and Verratti, he helped lift the team out of Serie B and into Serie A during the 2011/12 campaign, finishing the season as the league’s top scorer (28 goals).

He then spent time with Genoa and Juventus again before signing for Torino. It was here that he cemented himself as one of the top strikers in the Italian top flight, as he finished the 2013/14 season as top scorer with 22 goals. He spent the following seasons at Borussia Dortmund and Sevilla before returning to Torino, where he picked up from where he’d left off and continued to find the net on a regular basis. Ciro joined Lazio in the summer of 2016 and has gone on to win the Supercoppa Italiana (x2, in 2017 and 2019) and Coppa Italia (2018/19) with the Biancocelesti. His time in the capital has also seen him finish as the league’s top goalscorer: 29 goals in 2017/18 (joint first with Icardi) and 36 in 2019/20. His exploits last season resulted in him securing the coveted European Golden Shoe award, with Immobile becoming the third Italian to get his hands on this prize after Luca Toni and Francesco Totti.

As for his international career, Immobile made his debut with the National Team in 2014 during a friendly in Madrid against Spain on 5 March. National Team Coach Cesare Prandelli included him in his 23-man squad for the World Cup in Brazil, where Immobile played in the opening match: a 2-1 victory against England. He scored his first goal for the Azzurri on 4 September in a friendly in Bari against the Netherlands, with Italy running out 2-0 winners. He also participated in the Azzurri’s campaign during Euro 2016. So far, he’s made 42 appearances for the National Team, scoring ten goals.