was relegated to Genoa, the team's core shooter Mattia Destro finally left in a recent transfer. The 31-year-old striker arrived at Empoli Club. Empoli 's main striker Pinamonti is likely to leave in the summer, and the arrival of Destro may fill his vacancy.
Destro, who was born in March 1991, made his Serie A debut as early as 19 years old. In more than 10 years, he has played for five teams: Genoa, Milan, Roma, Siena, Bologna . He had the brilliance of scoring in double figures in the league for four seasons, and he also had the embarrassment of playing for two teams in the 19/20 season and still getting no results.
Destro made his debut in the Inter Milan echelon. In the U19 youth team, he once scored 40 goals in 71 games. In January 2011, when he was still under 20 years old, he joined Genoa for a transfer fee of 6.5 million euros and began his Serie A career here.
In his second season in Serie A, he scored 12 goals and 4 assists in Siena, which shocked the entire Italian football world. That season, Siena, as a small team, also reached the semi-finals of the Italian Cup. Unfortunately, they lost to Napoli with a total score of 2 to 3 and failed to advance to the finals.
During his time with Roma, Destro scored 29 goals and provided 5 assists in 68 appearances. The efficiency of scoring 1 goal in 2 games is extremely high. During this period, he also missed more than 20 games due to injury, otherwise Destro's data would be better. In the 2012/13 season, Destro scored 5 goals in the Coppa Italia, helping the team reach the final. Unfortunately, the team finished second.
Destro also had a brief experience in the wealthy AC Milan. In the second half of the 2014/15 season, he stayed in Milan for half a year, during which he played 15 games as a quasi-main player and scored 3 goals. At that time, Milan was in a period of reconstruction. Cerci, Keisuke Honda and Menez were the main players in the team, while Destro could only be regarded as a role player.
Facts also prove that after a period of peak period, Destro still missed the period of being the core player of a wealthy club by some strange combination of circumstances. He is still suitable for small teams like Genoa and Siena. In Italy's national team, Destro's presence is not strong. He has only played 8 games for the national team and scored one goal in the qualifiers against Malta .
Although he was very efficient in the National Youth Team, Destro did not score a goal in the U19 and U21 European Youth Championships. His national team career ended in 2014, when he was only 23 years old.
Next season, if Destro plays for Empoli as the main forward in a healthy state, he will refresh two data records in his career. The first is that he made 300 league appearances, and the second is that he scored 100 goals in Serie A.
Destro has currently played 287 times in Serie A . He has scored 90 goals and 19 assists. It is only a matter of time before he reaches 300 Serie A appearances next season. Destro scoring more than 10 goals can only be achieved when he is the main player. He has been in good form over the past two years. Even though he only played 27 league games last season, he still had 9 goals and 1 assist. It is conceivable that if he plays more than 30 games as the main player next season, he will have no problem scoring in double figures.
