Paris FC has officially announced the arrival of Ciro Immobile, a European champion with the Nazionale. The former serial scorer of Lazio, European Golden Shoe winner in 2020, is expected to bring his efficiency and experience to a promoted team in search of an offensive leader. With the arrival of Ciro Immobile at Paris FC, French football is offering an Italian parenthesis, almost romantic. That of a 35-year-old center-forward nourished by the culture of the goal. The paradoxical man whose name seems to forbid movement when his entire life has consisted of evading marking. This attacker has made the feat his routine, accomplishing what others are content to imagine: the art of making the nets tremble, tirelessly. Launched at Juventus in Serie A in March 2009, the new Parisian, father of 3 children, has not known the straight path of the gifted. The friend of Marco Verratti, his teammate at Pescara during a magical season in Serie B in 2011-2012, first built himself in the detour. Loaned, wandered, sometimes misunderstood. In Dortmund in 2014, the native of Torre Annunziata, near Naples, arrived in the midst of a legacy: Robert Lewandowski had just signed with Bayern, and the Italian found himself tasked with succeeding the irreplaceable, in the vertical football of Jürgen Klopp, the current global football director at Red Bull. A short season in the Ruhr and then he left, heading to Andalusia. In Seville, where he was loaned, the experience was too brief to leave a deep mark. Immobile has therefore long been a talent in transit, a scorer looking for his territory. As if his football, so instinctive, so linked to collective benchmarks, had needed a familiar setting to flourish fully. The theater of his dreams, he finds it at Lazio from the summer of 2016 and then changes dimension. In Rome, he ceases to be just another attacker. Darling of the Curva Nord of the Olimpico, he becomes a figure, almost a symbol. Four times capocannoniere of Serie A, best scorer in the history of the Roman club with 207 achievements ahead of the legend Silvio Piola, he piles up full seasons and records with the regularity of a metronome. In 2019-2020, he even touched the Grail: 36 goals in the championship, a historic peak in Serie A, equal to Gonzalo Higuaín, and a European Golden Shoe. Only Luca Toni and Francesco Totti, before him, had offered this supreme individual trophy to Italy. Immobile joins this discreet pantheon of transalpine scorers who have marked their era without necessarily seeking the spotlight. But reducing Immobile to a simple predator would be to betray what he claims about himself: an attacker of displacement, reading, and emergence, very skilled in front of the goal thanks to a game of head and interesting technical ease. In an interview with France Football in 2020, he discussed his playing style, which he learned from David Trezeguet, whom he met at Bianconeri in 2009-2010. « I am atypical, I am not a surface center-forward or a support attacker. I don't like to stay in front, in the axis, I like to move on the front of the attack. Consequently, people talk more about Paolo Ros