Alessio Romagnoli

Alessio Romagnoli

Romagnoli with Milan in 2016
Personal information
Full name Alessio Romagnoli
Date of birth (1995-01-12) 12 January 1995
Place of birth Anzio, Italy
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position Centre back
Club information
Current team
 Milan
Number 13
Youth career
Roma
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
2012–2015 Roma 13 (1)
2014–2015 → Sampdoria (loan) 30 (2)
2015– Milan 30 (0)
National team‡
2011 Italy U16[1] 3 (0)
2011–2012 Italy U17[1] 6 (0)
2011–2014 Italy U19[1] 12 (0)
2014– Italy U21[1] 13 (1)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22 April 2016.
† Appearances (goals)

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 29 March 2016

Alessio Romagnoli (Italian pronunciation: [aˈlɛssjo romaɲˈɲɔːli]; born 12 January 1995) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Serie A club Milan.

Club career

Roma

A youth product of Roma, Romagnoli was surprisingly included despite his 17 years of age by new head coach Zdeněk Zeman in the first team squad, joining the pre-season camp and being regularly called up as a reserve for the league games. Romagnoli made his senior debut on 11 December 2012 against Atalanta, playing the full game as a starter.[2] He then made his Serie A debut twelve days later, as a substitute in the final minutes of a league game against Milan.[3] He scored his first goal in Serie A on 3 March 2013 against Genoa.

He found more first team opportunities in the second half of the 2013-14 season under new manager Rudi García both at full back and in the centre of defence. On 31 May 2014 Romagnoli, signed a new four-year contract with Roma.[4]

Sampdoria (loan)

On 1 September 2014, Romagnoli joined Sampdoria on a season long loan for €500,000, with a option to purchase for €2 million, as well as a counter-option of €750,000.[5][6][7] Romagnoli made his Sampdoria debut as a late substitute in the 2-0 victory against Torino on 14 September. He scored his first goal for Sampdoria on 24 September 2014 in a 2-1 defeat of Chievo. In June 2015 Roma activated the counter-option, which the deal had also cost Roma an additional €550,000 as agent fee, making the return of Romagnoli cost €1.3 million (or €800,000 in net deducting the loan revenue).[8]

Milan

On 11 August 2015 he was sold to Milan for a fee of €25 million, signing a five-year contract.[9] Roma also eligible to 30% of the value adding if the player was subsequent sold for a fee above €25 million.[10]

Romagnoli made his official Milan debut on the 18th of August, 2015, in the 2015–16 Coppa Italia, playing the full 90 minutes and keeping a clean sheet in a 2-0 with over A.C. Perugia Calcio.[11] Six days later, the young central defender then made his first appearance in the league with his new club, as Milan lost 2-0 to ACF Fiorentina.[12] Romagnoli was sent off for the first time in his Milan career on the 27th of September, 2015, after receiving two bookable offences in the first half in a 1-0 loss to Genoa CFC at the Stadio Luigi Ferraris.[13] Upon returning from his one match ban, Romagnoli re-established himself as the first choice center back and went on to perform on a consistent basis in addition to providing stability in Milan's back line which has been not been seen since the sales of the legendary Milan defenders Alessandro Nesta and Thiago Silva.

On 1 March 2016, he played an excellent game in a 5-0 Coppa Italia defeat of Alessandria, scoring his first Milan goal as well as forcing an own goal from opposition defender Roberto Sabato. This match sent Milan to the final for the first time since 2003.[14]

International career

Romagnoli has represented Italy on multiple occasions at Under-16, Under-17 & Under-19 level. He made his first appearance for the Italy Under-21 team against Northern Ireland on 5 March 2014, playing the full 90 minutes.

With the Italy U-21 he took part at the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship.

Style of play

An elegant, versatile, composed and gifted left-footed centre-back, with good technique and confident ball-playing ability,[15] Romagnoli is also capable of functioning as a left-sided full-back;[16] his precocious displays, technique, positional sense, and tackling abilities have led pundits to compare him with legendary Italian defender Alessandro Nesta.[17] In 2015, he was named one of the top 100 young footballers in the world born after 1994 by Don Balón.[18]

Career statistics

Club

As of 22 April 2016[19]
Club Season League Cup Europe Other Total
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Roma2012–132110——31
2013–1411000——110
Total 1311000—141
Sampdoria (loan)2014–1530210——312
Milan2015–1630052——351
Total 3005200—352
Career Total 8037100—784

    References

    1. 1 2 3 4 "Convocazioni e presenze in campo - ROMAGNOLI ALESSIO". FIGC. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
    2. ↑ "Romagnoli, buonissima la prima" (in Italian). Il Romanista. 13 December 2012. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
    3. ↑ "Roma-Milan, esordio in serie A per Romagnoli" (in Italian). Il Romanista. 23 December 2012. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
    4. ↑ "Prolungato il contratto economico per le prestazioni sportive del calciatore Romagnoli" (in Italian). A.S. Roma. 31 May 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2015.
    5. ↑ "OPERAZIONI DI MERCATO Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa e Alessio Romagnoli" (PDF) (in Italian). A.S. Roma. 1 September 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2015.
    6. ↑ "Alessio Romagnoli alla Sampdoria a titolo temporaneo" (in Italian). U.C. Sampdoria. 1 September 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2015.
    7. ↑ "Romagnoli officially joins Sampdoria". Gianluca Di Marzio. 1 September 2014. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
    8. ↑ "Progetto di Bilancio di esercizio e Consolidato al 30 giugno 2015" (PDF) (in Italian). A.S. Roma. 5 October 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
    9. ↑ http://www.repubblica.it/sport/calcio/serie-a/milan/2015/08/09/news/fatta_per_romagnoli-120714843/
    10. ↑ "OPERAZIONI DI MERCATO Alessio Romagnoli" (PDF) (in Italian). A.S. Roma. 11 August 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
    11. ↑ http://au.soccerway.com/matches/2015/08/17/italy/coppa-italia/ac-milan/perugia-calcio/2137029/
    12. ↑ http://au.soccerway.com/matches/2015/08/23/italy/serie-a/acf-fiorentina/ac-milan/2120377/
    13. ↑ http://au.soccerway.com/matches/2015/09/27/italy/serie-a/genoa-cfc/ac-milan/2120429/
    14. ↑ http://www.goal.com/en-ng/news/4055/main/2016/03/02/20915862/fantastic-to-open-my-ac-milan-account-romagnoli
    15. ↑ Stefano Dolci (2 October 2014). "Alessio Romagnoli, il giovane "Nesta più tecnico"". eurosport.yahoo.com (in Italian). Eurosport. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
    16. ↑ Marco Calabresi (25 February 2014). "Roma, Romagnoli conquista la conferma". gazzetta.it (in Italian). La Gazzetta dello Sport. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
    17. ↑ Filippo Grimaldi (16 March 2015). "Roma-Sampdoria, il derby di Romagnoli, il nuovo Nesta che Ferrero vuole tenere". gazzetta.it (in Italian). La Gazzetta dello Sport. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
    18. ↑ "La lista dei 101 migliori giovani talenti del calcio mondiale" [The list of the 101 best young talents in world football]. eurosport.com (in Italian). Eurosport. 24 November 2015. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
    19. ↑ Alessio Romagnoli profile at Soccerway. Retrieved 11 July 2015.

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