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In the Italian championship, the club occupying second place wasted no time after the sale of Cristiano Vieri to Monaco and found a replacement for him - a former Brazilian national team player who passed a medical examination and agreed on contract terms will supplement the team.
Yesterday, C. Vieri, who did not establish himself in the main squad of Milan, was presented at Monaco, and despite scoring four goals in the two games after leaving the team, Milan was left with only three strikers - Ukrainian Andriy Shevchenko, and Italians Alberto Gilardino and Filippo Inzaghi.
So the club management began to look for a new striker, and although initially reports of M. Amoroso's move were negative, the player rejected Sao Paulo's offer to extend his contract for three years, and chose Milan, with whom he should sign a contract for one and a half years.
31-year-old M. Amoroso, who scored 9 goals in 21 matches for the Brazilian national team, started his career playing for Guarani and Flamengo in his homeland, as well as for Kawasaki Verdy in Japan, before moving to Italy to represent his team in 1996. In the 1998/99 season, the Brazilian scored 21 goals and became the top scorer, and in the following season he was bought for 28 million euros.
However, Amoroso did not perform as successfully in the latter team, so after a couple of years he was sold to Dortmund for 25 million, where he scored 18 goals in the first season and helped the team win the German championship. Later, in the 2004/05 season, the Brazilian played for the team, and then returned to his homeland to represent Sao Paulo, with whom he won the Libertadores Cup and the Club World Cup.
