Parma, who became one of the "Seven Heroes of Serie A" in the 1990s, has performed disappointingly this season, and has been in the middle of the relegation vortex throughout the season, and finally accompanied the last place in the league table, landing in Serie B in the next season, and the former Italian international Graziano Pele, who joined earlier this year, will also have a full date with the team, and I don't know where the season will go.
Graziano Pelle, who turned 36 in July, was born from his hometown team Lecce in southern Italy, and was loaned to lower league teams such as Catania, Crotone and Cesena; he also played for Serie A teams such as Parma and Sampdoria, but the peak of his player career was spent in the Dutch First Division, he joined Alkmaar in 2007, and helped the team win the Eredivisie championship under the famous coach Louis Van Gaal, but his performance was not outstanding at that time; then he joined Fayenoord in 2012. Becoming the first Italian player in the team's history and scoring 50 goals in the league in his two seasons with the team, although failing to bring the team a league title, he became a fearsome goalscorer in the Dutch first division and attracted the attention of some of the four major European league teams, only to be signed by Southampton, the Premier League team that was then appointed by Ronald Koeman, for £8 million in 2014.
After coming to a higher level of premier league matches, Graziano Pele became an indispensable main force in the central line, with a tall body, a solid and unpretentious playing style, as well as a stable goal rate, successfully established in the Premier League, and helped the team to play in Europe for two consecutive seasons. In 2016, Graziano Pele moved to the Chinese Super League, joining Shandong Luneng for 12 million pounds; the level of the Chinese Super League was much lower than that of the Premier League and even the European League, the striker who was over 30 years old performed super class, helping the mediocre team win an FA Cup title; but the Chinese Super League set a salary cap this season, so the veteran decided to leave the team at the end of last year.
After leaving the Chinese Super League, Graziano Pele returned to Serie A earlier this year to join Parma, who played for 10 years ago, on a free rein. Parma has been struggling at the bottom of the table since the beginning of the season, under the pressure of relegation, Graziano Pele joined this team in the water, although not necessarily the right choice in the squad, but also got a lot of opportunities to play, and in each appearance was very hard, including in the home league against Genoa, with a wonderful upside down shot into a golden ball, in addition to helping the team to open the record, but also achieved his first Serie A goal in 3379 days, but the team was eventually won by the opponent Due to the team's disparate squad, poor manpower, and too many points lost in the first half of the season, even if it played 13 games for the team, scored 1 goal and made 2 assists, it failed to help the team successfully relegate and landed in Serie B with a "tail" attitude.
Graziano Pele, who played for his country at Euro 2016 and helped the team advance to the quarter-finals, not only has excellent second-pass ability to pave the way for his teammates, but also has a stable shooting grasp, and is a real and unpretentious striker. Although it has reached the twilight age of the players, this tall striker still has the ability to occupy a position in the middle and lower reaches of Serie A, and after making a date with Parma, whether he will continue to live a "ronin" career or stay in the country to continue to develop, he hopes that this late striker will enjoy the rest of his career.