Emanuele Lulli scored for AS Roma against Genoa on 17 October 2026, and the goal put him into Serie A history. He became the first Italian player born in 2007 to score in the top flight, a milestone that sits alongside the 2-0 win and Roma's strong start to the season.
Roma's result and the setting for Lulli's goal
The backdrop matters because Roma were third in Serie A with 14 points from 6 matches before this round. Genoa were 17th with 4 points from 6 matches, so the goal arrived in a game between a team pushing near the top and one trying to steady itself.
The scoreline was 2-0, and Lulli's strike was the moment that gave the match its place in the record books. It was also the kind of goal that pulls a teenager out of the usual weekly noise and into a very specific line of Italian football history.
The birth-year list around him
Sky Sport Italia said Lulli enters the history of Serie A and joins the special list of the first Italians to score for each year of birth, from Kean to Camarda. That list starts with Moise Kean, born in 2000, who was described as the first millennial to score in the five major European leagues.
It also includes Francesco Camarda, born in 2008, who scored a stoppage-time equaliser against Bologna on the fifth matchday of Serie A 2025-26. Mattia Liberali, now at Como, had already scored in Serie B with Catanzaro on 7 February 2026 before Lulli's Serie A milestone.
Lulli is the newest name on that sequence, and the important part is not that he has added to it, but that he has extended it into the 2007 birth year. Roma now have a teenager who has already left a marker in the league, and the next line in this story will be whether he adds another one in Serie A after 17 October.
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