The former Venezia, Torino, Udinese, Roma and Piacenza striker scored after eight seconds against Fiorentina at the Stadio Artemio Franchi on December 2, 2001 — but the speed of the goal is not the strangest part of the story.
Fiorentina had actually taken the kick-off.
“They had the ball,” Poggi told Football Presse.
“Dario Hübner put pressure on them, won the ball and passed it to me. I managed to score having touched the ball only twice.”
That meant beating a Fiorentina side containing Alex Manninger, Moreno Torricelli, Daniele Adani, Emiliano Moretti, Angelo Di Livio and Nuno Gomes, with Roberto Mancini in the dugout.
Poggi finished past Manninger and Piacenza eventually won 3-1.
It was an extraordinary moment in a career that had begun much closer to home.
Born in Venice, Poggi started his senior career with Venezia in 1989 before moving to Torino in 1992. He would later spend six years at Udinese, have a difficult spell at Roma, play for Bari and Piacenza, and eventually return to Venezia for further spells before ending his career with the club in 2009.
For Poggi, Venezia was more than another club.
He has described Udinese as his “second home”, but his connection with Venezia FC was uniquely personal. He was born in the city and returned there repeatedly during his career, eventually becoming one of the club's most recognisable modern players.
And there was an almost surreal sequel to his record goal.
Just 17 days after scoring those famous eight seconds in Florence, Piacenza travelled to face Venezia in Serie A.
Poggi scored twice that night as Piacenza won 3-2 — at the Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo, the home of the club he had grown up supporting and a stadium remarkably close to the house where he was born.
By then, the record had become part of his identity.
It survived for almost two decades before Rafael Leão scored after 6.76 seconds for Milan against Sassuolo in December 2020.
Poggi's reaction was not disappointment.
“My first reaction was, finally someone has beaten it,” he said.
“I always thought that with the evolution of football, records have to be broken.
“I am happy that it lasted so long, for 19 years, but I am equally happy and convinced that soon they will break Leão's record too, because it means football is evolving.”
For Poggi, though, the memory is not really about holding a record.
It is about the bizarre sequence that produced it: Fiorentina starting with possession, Hübner winning the ball, one pass, two touches and a finish beyond Manninger before most of the Franchi had even settled into the afternoon.
And perhaps that is why, more than two decades later, Poggi can still remember exactly how it happened.