Lorenzo Insigne

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Lorenzo Insigne
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Lorenzo Insigne (2014)
Personnel
birthday 4th June 1991
place of birth Naples ,  Italy
size 163 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
2006-2010 SSC Naples
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2009– SSC Naples 255 (62)
2010 →  Cavese 1919  (loan) 10 0(0)
2010-2011 →  US Foggia  (loan) 33 (19)
2011–2012 →  Pescara Calcio  (loan) 37 (18)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2010-2011 Italy U-20 5 0(1)
2011-2013 Italy U-21 15 0(7)
2012– Italy 26 0(4)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: February 9, 2020

2 As of July 19, 2018

Lorenzo Insigne (born June 4, 1991 in Naples ) is an Italian football player who is under contract with SSC Napoli .

Career

SSC Naples

Insigne came to the youth department of SSC Napoli in 2006 and went through all teams from there. In 2009 he was nominated for the first time for the professional squad and was also used once. For the second half of the 2009/10 season he was awarded to Cavese in 1919 and played ten games there. For the entire 2010/11 season, the striker was loaned to US Foggia and scored 19 goals in 33 games. Thereupon the insignia of Delfino Pescara was awarded in 1936 . With this team he was Zdeněk Zeman champion in Series B 2011/12 season and got into the Serie A on. He formed a storm duo with Ciro Immobile , who scored 46 times in 42 games, scored 18 goals in 37 games and was sixth on the top scorer list . In the 2012/13 season, Insigne played a total of 40 games for SSC Napoli, scoring five goals. Since then he has been an important part of the SSC Napoli starting grid. Since 2019, after the departure of Marek Hamšík, he has also been captain on the field. After his successes in both the Coppa Italia in the 2013/14 season and the Supercoppa Italiana in 2014, Lorenzo Insigne also won his first title as captain of SSC Napoli with the 2020 Coppa Italia win .

National team

From 2010 he became aware of Insigne through his good performance at US Foggia and nominated him for the U-20 team of Italy , for which he played five games until 2011 and scored one goal. From 2011 he was also nominated for the U-21 team . In June 2013, Insigne won the runner-up title at the European Championships in Israel with the team trained by Devis Mangia after they had to admit defeat to Spain 2: 4 in the final .

In September 2012 Insigne was appointed to the Italian squad for the first time by Cesare Prandelli for the World Cup qualifiers against Bulgaria and Malta on September 7th and 11th . He came on as a substitute for Alessandro Diamanti in the game against Malta at halftime .

At the European Football Championship in France in 2016 , he was included in the Italian squad . He made his first appearance in the last group game against Belgium when he came into play in the last quarter of an hour. Then he was substituted on in the round of 16 against Spain and in extra time in the quarter-finals against Germany. When it came to penalties, he was the first player to play and convert. In the end, Italy eliminated with 5-6 converted penalties.

successes

National team

SSC Naples

Pescara Calcio

Personal awards

Personal

Insigne has been married to his wife Jenny since December 31, 2012 and they have two sons together. His brother Roberto is also a professional footballer and plays for Benevento Calcio in Serie B.

Web links

Commons : Lorenzo Insigne  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Soccerway: Summary Italy - Malta
  2. ↑ Sportal: Napoli hope Lorenzo Insigne in portrait
personal data
SURNAME Insignia, Lorenzo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th June 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples , Italy