Diego Contento

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Diego Contento
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Diego Contento during training for
Girondins Bordeaux (2015)
Personnel
Surname Diego Armando Valentin Contento
birthday May 1, 1990
place of birth Munich ,  Germany
size 177 cm
position left full-back
Juniors
Years station
1995-2008 FC Bayern Munich
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2009-2011 FC Bayern Munich II 36 (2)
2010-2014 FC Bayern Munich 49 (0)
2014-2018 Girondins Bordeaux 78 (2)
2018-2020 Fortuna Dusseldorf 0 (0)
2020 Fortuna Düsseldorf II 1 (0)
2020– SV Sandhausen 0 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2009-2010 Germany U20 4 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of June 1, 2020

Diego Armando Valentin Contento (born May 1, 1990 in Munich ) is an Italian - German soccer player . He spent his entire career at FC Bayern Munich before playing for four years for the French first division club Girondins Bordeaux from 2014 . After two years with Fortuna Düsseldorf , he has been under contract with SV Sandhausen since 2020 .

Career

societies

FC Bayern Munich

Contento started playing soccer in 1995 at the age of four in the youth department of FC Bayern Munich after an FC Bayern youth coach had seen him playing soccer with his brothers. Since there was no G-youth at that time , he played in the F-youth for the first three years .

He moved up to the second team in December 2008 . On his debut in the newly created 3rd division , he scored his first goal in paid football on December 16, 2008 in a 2-0 win in the away game against Kickers Emden by scoring 1-0 in the 16th minute. It was followed by eleven more missions in which he scored another goal. He was also used regularly in the following season 2009/10 .

Contento at FC Bayern (2010)

On January 13, 2010 Contento received a professional contract dated June 30, 2011 with Bayern Munich and trained with the Bundesliga team under Louis van Gaal . In the 2012 Champions League final , he was in the starting line-up and completed the full 120 minutes. In the 2012/13 season he played five Bundesliga games, two games in the DFB Cup and one game in the Champions League to win the triple and in the 2013/14 season with ten Bundesliga games, one Champions League game and two games in DFB-Pokal for the tenth double .

Girondins Bordeaux

Since he was only used sporadically at FC Bayern, he moved to the French Ligue 1 for the 2014/15 season at the Girondins Bordeaux club, which was coached by former Bayern professional Willy Sagnol , before his contract, which ran until June 30, 2016, expired . He signed a contract that ran until June 30, 2018; However, 50% of the transfer rights to Contento initially remained with FC Bayern Munich. On August 17, 2014 (2nd matchday), Contento made his debut on the grid in a 4-1 home win against AS Monaco . He scored his first point goal on November 22, 2015 in a 2-2 away game against Stade Rennes with the goal of the final score in the 78th minute.

Fortuna Dusseldorf

For the 2018/19 season Contento moved to Bundesliga promoted Fortuna Düsseldorf on a free transfer . On August 19, 2018, he made his competitive debut for Düsseldorf in a 5-0 victory in the DFB Cup at Rot-Weiß Koblenz . In early September 2018 - in a test match against KFC Uerdingen - the defender tore a cruciate ligament in his left knee and missed the rest of the season, which Düsseldorf finished in tenth. Even after his return, the head coaches Funkel and Rösler found no use for Contento and he only played once for the regional league team . His contract ended at the end of June 2020.

SV Sandhausen

For the 2020/21 season, Contento will move to SV Sandhausen .

National team

Contento made his debut on October 9, 2009 for the U-20 national team in Solothurn in the game against the Swiss team , which was lost 3-2. For the European Championship qualifiers of the U-21 national team against the selections of the Czech Republic and Northern Ireland in early September 2010, he was appointed to the squad for the first time by coach Rainer Adrion , but had to cancel due to injury.

Contento, who also has Italian citizenship , said in an interview in 2010 that his goal was to play for the Italian national team one day .

successes

Others

Contento's Italian parents come from the Naples area - the father is from Casalnuovo di Napoli , the mother is originally from Caivano - and settled in Munich . Diego Armando Contento was born there in 1990 as the third of four children. His parents gave him his first name based on the Argentine soccer player Diego Armando Maradona , who played for their favorite club SSC Napoli .

Contento's older brothers Vincenzo "Enzo" (* 1983) and Domenico (* 1985) also played for FC Bayern Munich. Enzo was German A- and Domenico in the same year German B-Junior Champion . Enzo, Domenico, father Pasquale and friends founded the FC Azzurri Munich club in 2004 , where two of Contento's cousins ​​also played. Game operations have been discontinued since the 2012/13 season. In the two previous years, the team had been withdrawn from ongoing matches during the season.

Web links

Commons : Diego Contento  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article on merkur-online .de
  2. ↑ Press release ( memento of August 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the Girondins Bordeaux homepage
  3. ↑ Message on the Fortuna Düsseldorf website, accessed on May 22, 2018
  4. ↑ Fortuna shock: Diego Contento suffers cruciate ligament rupture. Retrieved December 4, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Diego Contento leaves Fortuna Düsseldorf after the end of the season , f95.de, accessed on June 1, 2020
  6. ^ SV Sandhausen: Diego Contento changes to SV Sandhausen , accessed on July 1, 2020
  7. ↑ Interview with Diego Contento. on spox.com (Haruka Gruber / Daniel Paczulla)
  8. ^ Pasquale Tina: Storia di Diego Armando da Casalnuovo al Bavaria. October 17, 2011, accessed July 16, 2020 (Italian).
  9. ↑ Article on the homepage of FC Bayern Munich
  10. ↑ Article on merkur-online .de
  11. ^ FC Azzurri Munich. In: bfv.de. Bavarian Football Association , accessed on December 5, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Contento, Diego
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Contento, Diego Armando Valentin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich