Diego Alberto Milito (born 12 June 1979) is an
Argentine footballer of Italian origin who plays as a
striker for Italian
Serie A club
Internazionale and the
Argentine national team.
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A prolific and consistent centre-forward, Milito has statistically
averaged just over a goal every two appearances, over the course of his
10-year professional career. He was pivotal in Inter's
2009–10 treble-winning season and his two goals in the
Champions League final.
He has been nicknamed
El Príncipe ("The Prince" in Spanish) because of his physical resemblance with former
Uruguayan footballer
Enzo Francescoli, who had the same nickname.
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Club career
Racing Club
1999–2003: Early years in Argentina
Diego Milito started playing at
Argentine first division team
Racing Club in 1999, where he won the 2001
Apertura tournament. During this time, his younger brother
Gabriel played for Racing's main rival,
Independiente, as a defender. The two clubs would contest the
Avellaneda derby with the two brothers lining up against each other.
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Genoa
At the beginning of 2004, Milito moved to
Italian second division club
Genoa. After two very successful seasons, where he scored 33 goals in 59 matches in Italy, Genoa were relegated down to
Serie C1
as a punishment for an alleged match-fixing case in the final match of
the 2004–05 season. Due to this, Milito was forced to leave Genoa and
would ultimately join his brother Gabriel at
Real Zaragoza in the Spanish
La Liga.
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