Del Piero, 21 goals with Italy

October 16, 2002
Written by Alice

With the goals against Yugoslavia and Wales - two beautiful free-kicks -, Del Piero has reached the number of 21 goals scored with the main Italian team. Both goals were deflected on the wall, but this hasn't stopped Del Piero to overcome Paolo Rossi among the all-time Italy goalscorers - the former Juventus star scored 20 goals in his azzurra carreer.

These are the all-time top scorers for Italy:
1: Gigi Riva...35 goals
2: Giuseppe Meazza..33
3: Silvio Piola...30
4: Roberto Baggio...27
5: Alessandro Altobelli, Adolfo Baloncieri...25
7: Francesco Graziani...23
8: Sandro Mazzola...22
9: Alessandro Del Piero...21
10: Paolo Rossi...20
11: Roberto Bettega...19

Del Piero made his international debut in March 25, 1995 (Italy 4-1 Estonia) and has scored important goals during these seven years, like the one which assured Italy's qualification to the 2002 World Cup. Alex surely still has a long way to go with his country.
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