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==Personal Life==
Di Canio is a famous fascist, notably when he scored against A.S. Roma and other rival teams he would do the salute associated with the Italian Nationalists.


==Career statistics==
==Career statistics==

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Paolo Di Canio
Personal information
Full name Paolo Di Canio
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Striker

Paolo Di Canio (born July 9, 1968) is an Italian retired footballer.

Career

Di Canio was born in Rome, in the district of Quarticciolo. He signed for Lazio, in 1985; here he remained until 1990, moving to another of Italy's biggest clubs, Juventus. He stayed there until 1993 and successive seasons saw him join first Napoli and then A.C. Milan. In 1996 he joined Celtic in Scotland, and his successful season in Glasgow (scoring 15 goals in 37 appearances) saw him make a move to the English Premiership as he joined Sheffield Wednesday for a sum of around £4.2m. Whilst in Sheffield, Di Canio was the club's leading goal scorer for the 1997–98 season with 14 goals and he became a favourite of the fans.

In England, Di Canio is famous for an incident on the pitch in September 1998 where he pushed referee Paul Alcock to the ground after being sent off while playing for Sheffield Wednesday against Arsenal at Hillsborough. In January 1999, Di Canio signed for West Ham United for £1.7m and helped them to achieve a high league position (5th) and qualify for the UEFA Cup, albeit through the "back door" route of the Intertoto Cup. He was also the OPTA player of the season 1998–99. He scored the BBC Goal of the Season in 2000 with a volley against Wimbledon, which is still considered among the best goals in Premiership history. In this season he was also voted Hammer of the Year by the club's fans.

In 2001, he won the FIFA Fair Play Award. The previous December, in a match against Everton, in a noteworthy display of sportsmanship, Di Canio shunned a goal scoring opportunity and caught the ball from a cross instead as the Everton goalkeeper Paul Gerrard was lying injured on the ground after he twisted his knee attempting a clearance on the edge of the box. FIFA described the act as "a special act of good sportsmanship."[1]

He remained a key figure at West Ham until 2003 when, with the Hammers struggling at the bottom of the league, he had a very public row with manager Glenn Roeder and was exiled from the first team. However, he returned at the end of the season (after Roeder, stricken by a brain tumour, was replaced by Trevor Brooking) and scored a winner against Chelsea in the penultimate game of the season that looked to have preserved West Ham's Premiership status. However, it proved to be irrelevant and they were relegated on the final day of the season. He was released on a free transfer and signed a contract with Charlton Athletic for the start of 2003–04. Whilst at The Valley he helped the club secure its highest league finish since the 1950s.

Even though he had already signed an extension to his Charlton contract, in August 2004 he returned to his home team of Lazio taking a massive paycut in order to return to the economically stretched Roman team. Lazio fans were happy to have a Rome-bred Lazio supporter in the team again, something missing since the departure of Alessandro Nesta in 2002. He scored in the Rome derby, just as he had in 1989, leading the team to a 3–1 victory over A.S. Roma in January (06.01.2005). However the negative publicity that Di Canio generated for Lazio, including his intimate relationship with club's ultras and their increased influence thanks to his presence in the team, coupled with problems with some teammates and coaches, exasperated his already difficult relationship with, club president and majority shareholder, Claudio Lotito who decided not to renew his contract in the summer of 2006. During some of the games for Lazio, Di Canio made a fascist salute to the right-wing fans. He subsequently signed with Cisco Roma of Serie C2 on a free transfer. In his first season with Cisco Roma, his team failed promotion to playoffs, despite a runners-up position in the regular season. He subsequently agreed to stay with Cisco for another season, in a second attempt to win promotion to Serie C1 with the Roman side.

On March 10, 2008, Di Canio announced his retirement from football, ending his career before the end of the season due to physical issues. It is his intention to begin coaching lessons at Coverciano to gain a coaching position.[2] In an interview he revealed that his dream would be to manage former club West Ham, and applied for the position after the resignation of Alan Curbishley in September 2008.[3] In the summer of 2009 could reach Poli Iasi in Romania.

Club Playing Honours

Società Sportiva Lazio
Juventus F.C.
Associazione Calcio Milan

Career statistics

Template:Football player statistics 1 Template:Football player statistics 2 |- |1985-86||Lazio||Serie B||0||0|||||||||||||||| |- |1986-87||Ternana||Serie C2||27||2|||||||||||||||| |- |1987-88||rowspan="3"|Lazio||Serie B||0||0|||||||||||||||| |- |1988-89||rowspan="2"|Serie A||30||1|||||||||||||||| |- |1989-90||24||3|||||||||||||||| |- |1990-91||rowspan="3"|Juventus||rowspan="3"|Serie A||23||3|||||||||||||||| |- |1991-92||24||0|||||||||||||||| |- |1992-93||31||3|||||||||||||||| |- |1993-94||Napoli||Serie A||26||5|||||||||||||||| |- |1994-95||rowspan="2"|Milan||rowspan="2"|Serie A||15||1|||||||||||||||| |- |1995-96||22||5|||||||||||||||| Template:Football player statistics 2 |- |1996-97||Celtic||Premier Division||26||12|||||||||||||||| Template:Football player statistics 2 |- |1997-98||rowspan="2"|Sheffield Wednesday||rowspan="2"|Premier League||35||12|||||||||||||||| |- |1998-99||6||3|||||||||||||||| |- |1998-99||rowspan="5"|West Ham United||rowspan="5"|Premier League||13||5|||||||||||||||| |- |1999-00||30||16|||||||||||||||| |- |2000-01||31||10|||||||||||||||| |- |2001-02||26||9|||||||||||||||| |- |2002-03||17||8|||||||||||||||| |- |2003-04||Charlton Athletic||Premier League||31||4|||||||||||||||| Template:Football player statistics 2 |- |2004-05||rowspan="2"|Lazio||rowspan="2"|Serie A||23||6|||||||||||||||| |- |2005-06||27||5|||||||||||||||| |- |2006-07||rowspan="2"|Cisco Roma||rowspan="2"|Serie C2||28||7|||||||||||||||| |- |2007-08||18||7|||||||||||||||| Template:Football player statistics 3318||48|||||||||||||||| Template:Football player statistics 426||12|||||||||||||||| Template:Football player statistics 4189||67|||||||||||||||| Template:Football player statistics 5515||120|||||||||||||||| |}

Notes and references

  1. ^ Di Canio wins Fair Play award
  2. ^ "Di Canio Smette di giocare, addio alla Cisco Roma". Yahoo! Eurosport Italia. March 10 2008. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ "Di Canio wants to be Hammers boss". BBC Sport. 4 September 2008. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
Awards
Preceded by FIFA Fair Play Award Winner
2001 		Succeeded by
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