Antonio Di Natale is an Italian football player

Antonio Di Natale is an Italian footballer who was born in Naples on October 13, 1977 and he played as a striker for Serie A club Udinese from 2004.
Di Natale can play in any position, either as a lone striker and widened again as the striker out-and-outs. He has the ability to do drible ball and scored.
He began his career playing football when joining the club Empoli in 1996-2004, with a total of 159 appearances and scored 48 goals. But some of his time spent as a player at Empoli such loan with the club Iperzola in 1997-1998 and scored 6 goals in 33 appearances. In mid-season loan, Di Natale loaned to the club Varese in 1998 and only appeared 4 times without a goal. In 1998-1999, he was loaned to the club continues Viareggio and scored 12 goals in 25 appearances.
Di Natale became a regular after joining Udinese in 2004 until now.
Together with the Italian national team, he debuted in late November 2002 when Italy against Turkey.
He was also elected strengthening the Italian national team at the 2006 FIFA World Cup and UEFA EURO 2008 qualifying. After scoring in the qualifiers against Ukraine, Di Natale was called to strengthen the Italian national team for the UEFA EURO 2008.
He suffered a knee injury against Montenegro on March 28, 2009 and became captain of the team in November of trying to get the call for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Di Natale scored for the first time on June 24, 2010 in the 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament when they lost to Slovakia and make Italy a caretaker in a group F.
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