The Italian Footballers' Association ( Italian : Associazione Italiana Calciatori ), also referred to by the acronym AIC , is the association for footballers in Italy . It was established in 1968 and currently has 4,500 members, of which 2,500 are professionals .
6-712: The capocannoniere award ( Italian: [ˌkapokannoˈnjɛːre] ; lit. ' head gunner ' ), known as Paolo Rossi Award since 2021, is awarded by the Italian Footballers' Association (AIC) to the highest goalscorer of each season in Italy 's Serie A from the 2010–11 season, when it was called the AIC Award to the Top Scorer ( Italian : Premio AIC al Capocannoniere in Italian). The award
12-583: Is currently held by Lautaro Martínez , who scored 24 goals for Internazionale in the 2023–24 season . The highest number of goals scored to win the Capocannoniere is 36, by Gino Rossetti for Torino in 1928–29 , Gonzalo Higuaín for Napoli in 2015–16 and Ciro Immobile for Lazio in 2019–20 . Ferenc Hirzer , Julio Libonatti and Gunnar Nordahl are in joint fourth place for this record; they each scored 35 goals for Juventus , Torino and Milan respectively. Gunnar Nordahl of Milan has won
18-525: The capocannonieri are unknown. For 13 seasons the clubs are unknown. Current Serie A teams are shown in bold . For 15 seasons the nationalities are unknown. Italian Footballers%27 Association The aims of the AIC are to protect, improve and negotiate the conditions, rights and status of all professional players by collective bargaining agreements. The AIC was founded in Milan , on 3 July 1968. Among
24-507: The charter members there were notable footballers, such as Giacomo Bulgarelli , Sandro Mazzola , Gianni Rivera , Ernesto Castano , Giancarlo De Sisti , Giacomo Losi and Sergio Campana . The latter, who is also a lawyer and had retired from football a year before, was appointed president of the association. Campana held the position for 43 years, before announcing his intention to step down in April 2011. Former footballer Damiano Tommasi
30-402: The title of capocannoniere five times: 1949–50 , 1950–51 , 1952–53 , 1953–54 and 1954–55 , more than any other player in the history of Italian championship. Data relating to seasons prior to 1923–24 are incomplete or imprecise due to scarcity of sources. * Italian by naturalisation (Puricelli has been a capocannoniere both as an Uruguayan and an Italian player) For 15 seasons
36-533: Was officially appointed as the new president on 9 May 2011. Since 1997, AIC has held the Gran Galà del Calcio (formerly the Oscar del Calcio until 2011), a series of awards given to the best players, the best coach and the best referee of Serie A every season. This article about an association football -related organization is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to
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