Diego Milito

Diego Alberto Milito is a retired Argentina international footballer who features for Italian giants Inter Milan. He was a tall centre-forward and renowned for his technique as well as for his heading abilities.

Milito commenced his professional career at Argentine first division club Racing Club in 1999 and played for them until the summer of 2004, featuring 137 league matches and scoring 34 goals.

Milito then signed for Italian club Genoa, then in the Italian Serie B, in the summer of 2004 and after one season joined his younger brother Gabriel Milito at Real Zaragoza where he played over 150 league matches and scored over 50 goals. Milito scored 23 goals in La Liga in 2006-2007 season.

Milito moved back to Genoa in 2008 and was hugely impressive in the 2008-09 campaign, earning himself a move to Italian powerhouse Inter. He was a key player in Inter's treble-winning 2009-10 campaign, as he won Serie A, the Coppa Italia and the UEFA Champions League with the Nerazzurri. Milito scored both the goals in Inter's 2-0 victory over Bayern Munich in the final of Europe's premier club competition at the Santiago Bernabeu in Madrid.

Milito made his international debut for Argentina in 2002 against Uruguay and scored a brace. He featured for Argentina in 2007 Copa America and in the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa.

Achievements

Club

• Racing Club: Argentine Primera División: Apertura 2001, 2014 Transición
• Inter Milan: Serie A: 2009–10, Coppa Italia: 2009–10, 2010–11, Supercoppa Italiana: 2010, UEFA Champions League: 2010, FIFA Club World Cup: 2010

Individual

• Guerin d'Oro: 2008–09
• Serie A Goalscorer of the Year: 2009
• 2010 UEFA Champions League Final: UEFA Man of the Match
• UEFA Club Forward of the Year: 2009–10
• UEFA Club Footballer of the Year: 2009–10
• Serie A Footballer of the Year: 2009–10