16 Facts About Tommaso Rocchi

Tommaso Rocchi spent a large part of his career with Lazio and is the club's sixth highest goalscorer of all time, three behind Bruno Giordano.

At international level, Rocchi earned three caps for the Italy national team.

Tommaso Rocchi came up through the ranks in the Venezia junior system before signing for giants Juventus in 1994.

Tommaso Rocchi did not make any first team appearances however, and soon left the club.

Tommaso Rocchi managed to get a chance in Serie B with Treviso, which Como sold half of the registration rights to Treviso in 2000 for 1.4 billion lire and bought back in June 2001.

From Treviso, Tommaso Rocchi moved to Tuscany with Empoli, in Serie B at the time.

Tommaso Rocchi's finest individual performance of the season was a hattrick against Lecce, and Rocchi ended a successful debut season with 13 goals in 35 league appearances.

Tommaso Rocchi had a strong partnership with Macedonian forward Goran Pandev.

Tommaso Rocchi backed up his 16-goal haul yet again, as Lazio finished third and qualified for Europe's premier club competition.

Tommaso Rocchi spent much of the year as captain of Lazio, deputizing for the often injured Luciano Zauri.

On 20 February 2008, Tommaso Rocchi renewed his contract, extending the deal by five years.

Tommaso Rocchi suffered the indignity of being the only Lazio player to fail to convert his spot kick, however he did go on to score the winning goal in the Italian Super Cup final against Inter Milan.

Tommaso Rocchi decided to change his number 18 shirt for the number 9, which had previously been worn by all of those four, aside from Signori.

Tommaso Rocchi was presented to the media three days later and was handed squad number 18.

Tommaso Rocchi played two more matches for the national team on the road to Euro 2008 but did not make the squad for the final tournament.

Tommaso Rocchi was selected as the only overage player in Pierluigi Casiraghi's Olympic team to play at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.