Serie A's top scorer, with 16 goals, is Cristiano Ronaldo, who turned 36 last week. Just behind him, you'll find a trio of players on 14: Romelu Lukaku, 27 years old, is the baby of the three, Ciro Immobile is 30 and Zlatan Ibrahimovic is a venerable 39 years old.
Ordinarily, this is when you'd cue up jokes about Serie A as a retirement league, a place where aging poachers keep banging in goals, aided by the supposedly slower tempo and the equally geriatric defenders. It's a stereotype -- and a lazy one at that -- but it's based on the fact that in the past decade the league's scoring charts have been topped by a 33-year-old Antonio Di Natale, a 38-year-old Luca Toni, a 31-year-old Edin Dzeko and a 36-year-old Fabio Quagliarella.