Ciro Immobile

Ciro Immobile
Ciro Immobile (2015)
Personnel
birthday	February 20, 1990
place of birth	Torre Annunziata , Naples ,  Italy
size	185 cm
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
2002-2008	Sorrento Calcio
2008-2010	Juventus Turin
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2009-2010	Juventus Turin	3 00(0)
2010-2011	→  AC Siena  (loan)	4 00(1)
2011	→  US Grosseto  (loan)	16 00(1)
2011–2012	→  Delfino Pescara 1936  (loan)	37 0(28)
2012-2013	CFC genoa	33 00(5)
2013-2014	Torino FC	33 0(22)
2014-2015	Borussia Dortmund	24 00(3)
2015-2016	Sevilla FC	8 00(2)
2016	→ FC Turin (loan)	14 00(5)
2016–	Lazio Rome	142 (103)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2009-2010	Italy U20	6 00(0)
2009-2013	Italy U21	15 00(9)
2014–	Italy	39 0(10)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2019/20 2 As of November 18, 2019

Ciro Immobile (born February 20, 1990 in Torre Annunziata , Naples ) is an Italian football player . The striker is under contract with Lazio .

Career

society

Beginnings

Ciro Immobile began his career in the youth department of Sorrento Calcio , for which he scored 30 goals in 2007/08 in the Allievi Nazionali age group . In 2008, the striker joined Juventus Turin . In 2009 he won the prestigious Torneo di Viareggio with the youth team of the highest age group, the Primavera .

He made his debut in the professional team on March 14, 2009 in the 4-1 win in the Serie A game against Bologna , where he was substituted on by coach Claudio Ranieri in the last minutes of the game for Alessandro Del Piero . Immobile made his first appearance in the Champions League on November 25, 2009 in the 2-0 defeat at Girondins Bordeaux . At Torneo di Viareggio 2010 he was the top scorer with ten goals in the Turin's second victory in a row at this tournament.

Time as a "wanderer"

On July 1, 2010 Immobile moved together with Luca Marrone on loan to AC Siena in Serie B ; in return, Juventus received the three loan players Leonardo Spinazzola , Marcel Büchel and Niccolò Giannetti . He denied the return series of the 2010/11 season on loan from Serie B club US Grosseto . In the 2011/12 season Immobile was awarded to the Serie B club Delfino Pescara 1936 . There he was top scorer with 28 league gates, formed together with Lorenzo Insigne the most dangerous striker duo in the league and rose under coach Zdeněk Zeman as first in the table in Serie A.

For the 2012/13 season , Immobile switched to CFC Genoa , which acquired 50% of its transfer rights for four million euros.

Breakthrough at FC Turin

For the 2013/14 season , Juventus bought back 50% of the transfer rights from Genoa for EUR 2.75 million and sold them to Turin FC for the same amount . At the city rivals of Juventus, Immobile was the top scorer in Serie A with 22 goals in 33 appearances .

Change abroad

Ciro Immobile in the Borussia Dortmund jersey (2014)

For the 2014/15 season Immobile was signed by Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund . He signed a contract that ran until June 30, 2019 and was to take the place of Robert Lewandowski , who had migrated to Bayern . He scored his first competitive goal for BVB on September 16, 2014 in the group stage of the Champions League against Arsenal . He scored his first Bundesliga goal on September 24, 2014 in a 2-2 draw against VfB Stuttgart . On March 3, 2015, he scored twice for BVB in the round of 16 of the DFB Cup against SG Dynamo Dresden . Immobile scored three goals in 24 Bundesliga games. He scored four goals in six games in the Champions League and three goals in three appearances in the DFB Cup. However, he could not live up to expectations. There were also reports that he had not integrated himself and showed no willingness to learn German .

For the 2015/16 season Immobile initially moved to Spain on loan to the Europa League winners Sevilla FC . Immobile made his debut in the Sevilla FC jersey on August 11, 2015, when he came on for Kevin Gameiro in the 80th minute after losing 4-5 after extra time in the UEFA Super Cup against FC Barcelona . After five competitive games, a purchase obligation of eleven million euros took effect. He scored two goals in eight league games, including four as a starting XI player. There were also three substitutions in the Champions League without a goal of their own.

Return to Italy

Can after Immobile at FC Sevilla had not prevail, he returned on 14 January 2016 for loan until the end of the season 2015/16 in the Serie A for Torino back. There he was able to build on old achievements and earned a place in the Italian squad for the European Championship in France with five goals in 14 Serie A games .

For the 2016/17 season , Immobile moved to Lazio Rome after his loan contract within Serie A had expired . With the club he won the Italian Supercup twice ( 2017 , 2019 ) and the Italian Cup once ( 2018/19 ). In the 2019/20 season, Immobile scored 36 goals in 37 league games. He became the top scorer in Serie A and set Gonzalo Higuaín's previous goal record from the 2015/16 season . In addition, Immobile was awarded the Golden Shoe as Europe's most successful goalscorer.

National team

After six international matches for the Italian U-20s coached by Francesco Rocca and winning the silver medal at the Mediterranean Games in Pescara in 2009 , Immobile made his debut on March 25, 2009 in a 2-2 win against Austria under Pierluigi Casiraghi in the Italian U-21s . In June 2013 he finished second with the team coached by Devis Mangia at the U-21 European Championship in Israel after losing the final to Spain 2-4.

Immobile made his senior national team debut on March 5, 2014 under coach Cesare Prandelli in the 1-0 defeat in a friendly against Spain at the Estadio Vicente Calderón in Madrid .

Immobile was named by Prandelli to the Italian squad for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil . He made his World Cup debut against Costa Rica in the second group game, which Italy lost 1-0. Another match against Uruguay followed , after which Italy were eliminated from the tournament with a 0-1 defeat. He scored his first international goal on September 4 in a 2-0 win in the test international against the Netherlands .

He was included in the Italian squad at the 2016 European Championships in France . In the opening game against Belgium he came on in the final quarter of an hour. In the last group game, when the move into the knockout phase was already certain, he was on the starting line-up against Ireland. In the second and quarter finals, where the team was eliminated, he was no longer used.

successes

National team

• Mediterranean Games : 2nd place in 2009
• U-21 European Championship : 2nd place in 2013

Juventus Turin

• Torneo di Viareggio (2): 2009, 2010

Delfino Pescara 1936

• Italian Serie B Championship : 2011/12

Borussia Dortmund

• DFL Supercup : 2014

Lazio Rome

• Italian Supercup (2): 2017 , 2019
• Italian Cup : 2018/19

Personal awards

• Top scorer at Torneo di Viareggio: 2010 (10 goals)
• Best player at Torneo di Viareggio: 2010
• Series B top scorer: 2011/12
• Best Serie B Player : 2011/12
• Serie A top scorer: 2013/14 , 2017/18 , 2019/20
• Scorer of the UEFA Europa League : 2017/18
• AIC Team of the Year: 2018
• Serie A Player of the Month: October 2019
• UEFA Golden Shoe : 2020 (36 goals)

Web links

Commons : Ciro Immobile  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ciro Immobile in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Ciro Immobile in the database of weltfussball.de
• Mission statistics on the website of the Italian Association (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Immobile altro show, trionfo Juve! (No longer available online.) Juventus.com, February 15, 2010, archived from the original on February 18, 2010 ; Retrieved February 15, 2010 (Italian). 
2. ↑ Immobile e Marrone al Siena, Giannetti, Buchel e Spinazzola alla Juventus ( Memento of July 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Juventus Turin: Agreement reached with Genoa for Immobile ( memento of June 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), January 30, 2012
4. ↑ Juventus Turin: Immobile joins Torino ( Memento from June 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), July 12, 2013
5. ↑ Borussia Dortmund: Ciro Immobile changes to BVB , June 2, 2014
6. ↑ kicker online: All right! Immobile comes to BVB on June 2, 2014
7. ^ André Winkelhagen: The whining of the Ciro Immobile. In: bwin. ElectraWorks Limited, July 18, 2015, accessed July 18, 2015 . 
8. ↑ Borussia Dortmund: Ciro Immobile changes to FC Sevilla , July 12, 2015, accessed on July 13, 2015.
9. ↑ kicker online: Immobile brings BVB another eleven million euros , September 30, 2015, accessed on September 30, 2015
10. ↑ See the official confirmation from Sevilla FC.
11. ↑ kicker online: Italy with Immobile, but without Montolivo , May 31, 2016, accessed on July 27, 2016.
12. ↑ See the official confirmation on the Lazio website of July 27, 2016, accessed on July 27, 2016.
13. ↑ Immobile is the best scorer in Europe - and sets a record in Italy , spiegel.de from August 1, 2020, accessed on August 2, 2020.