Fabio Quagliarella - From Nobody to Somebody!

I know, most people who will read this will say "Who's Fabio Quagliarella?". Well, I'll tell you who he is. Fabio Quagliarella plays for Sampdoria, in the Italian Serie A. He was born on January 31, 1983 and started his career at Torino. He even played on the re-born Fiorentina (Florentia Viola) when they were in Serie C2 because of financial difficulties. He was at Ascoli last season, but didn't really make a mark, only scoring 3 goals in 33 appearances. This season Sampdoria bought half of his ownership (Udinese owns the other half), and they intended to use him as a bench player. Obviously Sampdoria's first-choice striking pair is big target man Emiliano Bonazzoli and the ever present Francesco Flachi. Quagliarella was supposed to be a bench player. But, Francesco Flachi has been suspended for 4 months for betting on games, leaving head coach Walter Novellino to have no other options but to parter Bonazzoli with Quagliarella. This has turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Quagliarella has scored 4 goals since taking over Flachi's job and 2 were world class goals scored against Atalanta (www.channel4.com/sport/football_italia/videogoals1.html click on "Week 7 Goals" and watch goals 2 and 3). Quagliarella has already scored more goals this season in 7 appearances than he did last season in 33 appearances. There are some questions though- Will his hot streak continue, or will he start to fade? What happens when Flachi comes back from suspension?, we'll have to wait and see what happens. He's an exciting little player, and maybe this will be his breakout year. Mr. Donadoni, are you watching?