Benevento goalkeeper Alberto Brignoli drew the attention of the entire footballing world when he scored a 95th-minute equaliser against Milan on Sunday.
The Juventus loanee earned the Stregoni their first ever Serie A point with his late header, but he’s not the only goalscoring goalie in Italian football.
Here are some other ‘keepers who have made an impact at the other end.
Benevento goalkeeper Alberto Brignoli drew the attention of the entire footballing world when he scored a 95th-minute equaliser against Milan on Sunday.
The Juventus loanee earned the Stregoni their first ever Serie A point with his late header, but he’s not the only goalscoring goalie in Italian football.
Here are some other ‘keepers who have made an impact at the other end.
Massimo Taibi
Taibi is best known to English audiences for his disastrous spell at Manchester United, but he was the last goalkeeper to score in Serie A before Brignoli’s heroics.
On April 1, 2001; Reggina trailed Udinese 0-1 at the Stadio Oreste Granillo with 87 minutes on the clock.
With the Amaranto locked in a relegation battle the situation was desperate, and when they won a late corner Taibi went forward.
The ball was swung in to the front post by Mamede, and Taibi rose highest to plant an equaliser Luigi Turci in the Zebrette goal.
It wasn’t enough to keep Reggina up, however, as they lost a play-off to Verona having both finished level on 37 points.
Michelangelo Rampulla
The first goalkeeper to score from open play in Serie A was Michelangelo Rampulla, who would later spend 10 years at Juventus, largely as the backup goalkeeper.
In Week 22, Cremonese were 1-0 down to Atalanta in Bergamo, thanks to a first-half penalty by Brazilian striker Carlos Bianchezi.
The visitors won a free-kick in the dying seconds, and with Alviero Chiorri preparing to take the set piece, Rampulla opted to join the attack.
Perhaps surprised to see a goalkeeper in their box, the Orobici left Rampulla completely unmarked at the back post and he converted a relatively simple header.
Once again though it wasn’t enough to keep the Tigri in Serie A, as they finished in 17th, nine points from safety.
Francesco Toldo
Admittedly this is a slightly contentious one, as the history books officially record that Christian Vieri scored the 95th-minute equaliser in a 1-1 draw with Juventus.
The Bianconeri had taken the lead after 89 minutes through an Alessandro Del Piero penalty, and the Beneamata threw everyone forward looking for an equaliser.
Hernan Crespo won a corner, and it was delivered into the box by Emre Belozoglu.
Gianluigi Buffon, under pressure from a crowd of Nerazzurro shirts, could only palm the ball down, and after a series of ricochets it ended up in the net.
The ball appeared to go in off the knee of Toldo, but may also have been flicked off the right foot of Vieri as he fell in the goal mouth.
Officially the goal was given to the striker, but after the match Told insisted he had scored.
“It doesn't matter what Vieri said – that is my goal!” the goalkeeper said at the time.
“A goal from a keeper is always a nice moment and I don't think a goalkeeper has ever scored a goal so late in such an important game!”
Antonio Rigamonti
A Scudetto winner with Milan in 1989, Rigamonti was somewhat prolific.
In 106 appearances for Como, he scored six goals including three in Serie A.
Admittedly he was the penalty taker, and all of his goals came from the spot, but Rigamonti’s tally is more than respectable.
Lucidio Sentimenti
Sentimenti was the Juventus goalkeeper during the reign of Il Grande Torino, and the joke often went that the Italy team was the Juve goalkeeper and 10 Torino players.
In truth the ‘keeper only won nine caps for the Azzurri, but he did play over 100 games for the Bianconeri.
During the wartime league of 1943-44, Sentimenti was deployed as a winger for a spell after breaking his fingers.
He scored four goals in that time, including a double against Casale.
Returning to goal, Sentimenti scored a penalty against Atalanta, having missed against Milan the previous week, before moving to Lazio in 1949.
While representing the Aquile, the goalkeeper scored three penalties.
Bonus goalkeeper: Marco Ballotta
Marco Ballotta holds the distinction of being the oldest goalkeeper ever to score in an official match, having done so at the age of 50, though he wasn’t actually playing as a goalkeeper when he did.
In a career which took in the likes of Parma, Inter and Lazio, the goalkeeper become the oldest player ever to play in Serie A at 41 years and 203 days, when he played against Roma in the Derby della Capitale.
In 2007, a 1-1 draw with Olympiakos in the Champions League saw the Biancocelesti man also break the Champions League age record when he played at the age of 43 years and 168 days.
Ballotta wasn’t done there though, and after leaving the Aquile in the summer of 2008 he dropped down to the Prima Categoria, then the eighth tier of Italian football.
Despite his age, Ballotta was reinvented as a striker and scored 24 goals in 37 games for Calcara Samoggia over the next three years.
In 2011 he moved to San Cesario and briefly returned to goal before moving back outfield and scoring a penalty at Casalecchio.
The following season he returned to Calcara Samoggia, scoring five goals in 25 games, four of which were penalties.
Ballotta finally retired at the age of 51 in 2015.