Fabio Quagliarella proves age is just a number as the 36-year-old finished the season as Serie A top scorer ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo.
The Sampdoria veteran has been sensational this term and claimed the top-flight golden boot with 26 goals, five more than his Juventus rival.
Despite winning the league title and Player of the Year, it represents four consecutive years whereby Ronaldo has failed to finish as the top scorer in his league.
In fact, Ronaldo did not even finish as runner-up to the Sampdoria man as the five-time Ballon d'Or winner came fourth.
Atalanta's Duvan Zapata came second to Quagliarella with 23 goals and AC Milan's Krzysztof Piątek came third with 22.
Quagliarella's amazing season is further evidenced when stats show the Italian has the most assists from the top five scorers in Serie A.
Sampdoria actually met Juventus in the final game of the Serie A season at the weekend but neither player found the back of the net.
Juventus were beaten 2-0 away from home with goals from Gregoire Defrel and Gianluca Caprari ensuring Massimiliano Allegri's reign at Juve ends in defeat.
Further credit must go to Quagliarella when compared to some of the top marksmen across Europe.
The 36-year-old came third in the race for the European golden shoe behind Paris Saint-Germain's Kylian Mbappe and Barcelona's Lionel Messi.
Ronaldo has enjoyed a strong debut season in Italy but will have anticipated to have been the best-performing player in front of goal given his talents.
Losing out to Quagliarella means the Portuguese has failed to win his league's golden boot for the last three season.
He lost out to Luis Suarez by five goals in 2015-16, lost to Messi for the next two seasons before being beaten by Quagliarella this time round.
Manik5
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Ronaldo matches played:31 (21Goals+8Asisst) Quagliarella matches played:38 (26Goals+8Asisst) someone must know what’s goingon in seria-A Anyway we have to appreciate Quagriella 👏🏻 But Quagriella never gonna score a hattrick in champions league ko match against Atletico Madrid 😅 Ronaldo does.Appreciate Quagriella & don’t mock cr7. So people should stop speaking nonsenses
Abbawaziri
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On this day Quagliarella and Ronaldo proved that age is just a number.
Handsome Mike
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We once had the likes of Kaka, Ronaldinho, Romario, Bebeto, Roberto Carlos, Zidane etc and they all waved us goodbye. The older we get, the closer we get to the grave and live will go on. Both Messi and Cr7 will eventually wave us goodbye.. CR7 has already started his goodbyes.
Mosanya
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Quargliarella this season 26 goals ⚽ 8 assists 🎯 141 shots 51 Shots on target 37 apperances 👤 At the age of 36, Congrats Quargliarella is the first player sampdoria player to finish top scorer in the Seria A since Vialli in 1990-91. Congrats to him, he deserves it.
GregorClegen
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And they will tell us that cristiano has conquered Italy. 🙄[Crylaugh] He can't win us UCL. We have to be united and play as a team. Not just for an individual who seek attention.
garutal
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Ronaldo matches played:31 (21Goals+8Asisst) Quagliarella matches played:38 (26Goals+8Asisst) someone must know what’s goingon in seria-A Anyway we have to appreciate Quagriella 👏🏻 But Quagriella never gonna score a hattrick in champions league ko match against Atletico Madrid 😅 Ronaldo does.Appreciate Quagriella & don’t mock cr7. So people should stop speaking nonsenses
Hahaha. Come on bro. '4 seasons without one'? I thought he's the best goal scorer [Crylaugh][Crylaugh][Crylaugh][Crylaugh]
pinbkmtuz
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Ronaldo matches played:31 (21Goals+8Asisst) Quagliarella matches played:38 (26Goals+8Asisst) someone must know what’s goingon in seria-A Anyway we have to appreciate Quagriella 👏🏻 But Quagriella never gonna score a hattrick in champions league ko match against Atletico Madrid 😅 Ronaldo does.Appreciate Quagriella & don’t mock cr7. So people should stop speaking nonsenses
welll what about Piatak ??? he played 21 matches only and still scores more goals than Ronaldo[Crylaugh][Crylaugh][Crylaugh] Ronaldo is nothing now!
Naimurrahmansiam
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On this day Quagliarella and Ronaldo proved that age is just a number.
I gusse Ibra already proved it.