When the 37th round of Serie B 21-22 was over, the league was nearing its end, and the top team was Lecce. In the squad of this veteran Italian team, 33-year-old Italian striker Massimo Koda is indispensable, scoring 20 goals to lead the Serie B top scorers list!
This season's Serie B, Lecce, Monza and Cremonese teams have competed upstream in the league, and the reason why Lecce has been able to stand out and hope to win the championship and thus be promoted is inseparable from the outstanding performance of the top scorer Massimo Koda.
He currently plays 35 league games for the team, scoring 20 goals and seven assists, while ranking first and fifth in the Serie B top scorers list and 5th in assists.
Koda's 20 Serie B goals, 14 goals ahead of Top scorers tied for 2nd place in espeto and Alfredo Donnarumma, while the current league has only one round left, meaning he has essentially locked up the first scorer of Serie B this season.
In the 20-21 season, Koda scored 22 goals and nine assists in 36 serie b games for Lecce, and as the winner of last season's Golden Boot, he is about to successfully defend the Serie B Golden Boot.
However, in the young age of Keda's career, he did not show such an outstanding performance, which can be described as a late success.
Coming from Cavise U19, he played for 13 teams and played 42 Serie A matches in his career, mostly in the lower leagues, including Bellinzona, Siscolo Roma, Treviso, Crotone, Bologna, Cremonese, Siracusa, San Marino, Parma, Goritsa, Salenitana, Benevento and Lecce.
In September 2020, Korda successfully won the Serie B 19-20 title with Benevento, but he did not choose to travel with the team to the Serie A arena, and Lecce successfully waived the visa.
After joining the team, Koda, wearing the number 9 shirt, became Lecce's strongest scorer, winning 71 Serie B games with 44 goals and 17 assists, worth 1.5 million euros, which can be said to be the best striker in serie B in the past two seasons.
Somehow, in the past few years, more and more veterans in their thirties and even forties have played well in the world football scene, and some of them are no less good than the players.
This is not only the continuous improvement of football rules and the protection of players, but also the scientific training methods and eating habits.
The most important thing is that many football veterans have always been passionate about football, even if they no longer look young, they are still pursuing the best of themselves, just to shine on the field!