5 Legends who retired from football in 2016

#3 Antonio Di Natale

Antonio Di Natale left Udinese after 12 years

Di Natale was terrific in his 12 years at the Stadio Friuli. He made 385 appearances for Udinese, in which he scored 191 goals which made him the 7^th top scorer of all time in the Serie A.

At the end of the last season, Di Natale had announced that he would leave Udinese but would continue playing. But he hasn’t played at all this season, and it would be safe to assume that his glittering playing career is over.

The legacy of Di Natale will lie in the fact that he never left Udinese despite the team barely ever challenged for any top honours nor ever really cementing a place in European competitions.

But despite that, Di Natale chose to stay and kept inspiring the team when it looked like Udinese would not survive in the Serie A that year. For Antonio Di Natale, he played the game for the love of the sport and the love for Udinese – not quite the love for trophies.