‘Unbelievably ruthless’: Recalling Luca Toni’s brilliance at Bayern Munich

Luca Toni scored goals everywhere he went, but there’s part of every football fan that wishes he’d been given a longer run at Bayern Munich.

The World Cup winner has had one of those bizarre careers that don’t follow the path you’d expect from a world-beater. He was 23 years old when he played his first minutes in Serie A, but still enjoyed a near-uninterrupted 15 years of top-level football, scoring 20 or more top-flight goals on five different occasions.

One of those seasons came in Bavaria, where he moved 12 months after helping Italy become world champions at the Olympiastadion, but it can often be overlooked in retrospectives of his two decades as a pro.

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