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Luca Toni Makes 30 Goals Landmark

It took 47 years for another player to score 30 goals in a Serie A season, and the player is Luca Toni. Toni scored twice in ACF Fiorentina`s 5-2 win against Reggina Calcio and reached the 30 goals landmark. The last player to reach the 30 goals landmark was FC Internazionale Milano`s Argentinean striker Anton Valentin Angelillo, who scored 33 times in 1958/59, and no Italian-born player has done so since Felice Placido Borel of Juventus in 1934.

The goals leave Toni a near-certainty to scoop the ESM Golden Shoe for 2005/06, as he holds a six-point lead with the season winding down. His only realistic competitor is Samuel Eto`o of FC Barcelona, but the Cameroonian would have to score five times in two matches to have a chance of winning. Arsenal FC`s Thierry Henry ended the season with a bang, scoring a hat-trick to bring his total to 27 goals from only 30 starts.

It`s important to remember that there are some criteria for counting a player`s goal, for instance a player cannot first play in a summer league (eg. Norway) and then in a winter league (eg. Spain) and combine the points total for each season.