Riccardo Montolivo

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Riccardo Montolivo
Riccardo Montolivo Euro 2012 vs England.jpg
Riccardo Montolivo (2012)
Personnel
birthday January 18, 1985
place of birth Caravaggio ,  Italy
size 182 cm
position Defensive Midfield
Juniors
Years station
1993-2003 Atalanta Bergamo
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2003-2005 Atalanta Bergamo 73 0(7)
2005–2012 AC Florence 219 (17)
2012-2019 AC Milan 129 0(8)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2001 Italy U15 8 0(0)
2003 Italy U18 2 0(0)
2004 Italy U19 4 0(1)
2004-2008 Italy U21 20 0(3)
2007-2017 Italy 66 0(2)
2008 Italy Olympia 4 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.

Riccardo Montolivo (born January 18, 1985 in Caravaggio ) is a former Italian football player . He was under contract with AC Milan from 2012 to 2019 .

Career

society

From the age of 15 to 18, Montolivo played in the youth of Atalanta Bergamo . In season 2003/04 he ran for the first team in Serie B and the following season in the Serie A on. He made his debut on September 12, 2004 (1st matchday) in a 2-2 home game against US Lecce ; he scored his first goal on October 23, 2004 (7th matchday) in a 2-2 home game against Cagliari Calcio .

At the start of the 2005/06 season , Montolivo moved to league rivals Fiorentina and completed two seasons a. a. at the side of Luca Toni . He later became team captain .

For the 2012/13 season , AC Milan signed Montolivo on a free transfer. He signed a contract that was valid until June 30, 2016. For the 2013/14 season he took over the captaincy from the Fiorentina exchanged Massimo Ambrosini . In July 2019, he left the club after seven years on a free transfer. In November of the same year he then announced the end of his career.

National team

After playing for the U15 , U18 , U19 and U21 national teams, Montolivo made his debut on October 17, 2007 under coach Roberto Donadoni in the senior national team , who played a friendly against the South African selection in Siena with 2: 0 won. He scored his first goal on August 10, 2011 in Bari in a 2-1 win in the friendly against Spain .

Montolivo took part in the Olympic football tournament in Beijing , played four times - including the quarter-finals they lost 3-2 to the Belgian team - and scored the 3-0 goal in the second group game against South Korea. Furthermore, he played three times in the Confederations Cup in 2009 and the following year also played the three group games of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa , where he was eliminated from the tournament with the national team under Marcello Lippi after the group stage as bottom of the table. Montolivo was also at the 2012 European Championships and reached the final with this, after finishing second behind Spain in the group stage and then beating England in the quarter-finals and Germany in the semi-finals ; on penalties in the quarterfinals, he missed his penalty.

Shortly before the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, Montolivo suffered a broken shin in a friendly against Ireland in a duel with Alex Pearce . So he fell out for the World Cup. Since this injury, Montolivo has not been able to find its way back to its old level and has been nominated again and again, but was only used irregularly. His last international match so far was against Israel on September 5, 2017 . He has not been nominated since then.

successes

National team

AC Milan

Personal awards

Private

Montolivo's mother comes from Ascheberg in Schleswig-Holstein , which is why he speaks German and is a German citizen . In his youth he regularly spent the summer with his grandparents in Heidkate on the Baltic Sea . In Italy it is therefore often called "Il Tedesco" (the German).

Web links

Commons : Riccardo Montolivo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Montolivo nuovo capitano viola
  2. ↑ WELCOME RICCARDO!
  3. ↑ Giampiero Timossi: Intervista a Riccardo Montolivo: "Mi ritiro, ma aspetto risposte". November 13, 2019, accessed January 26, 2020 (Italian).
  4. ↑ Montolivo missed the 2014 World Cup
  5. ^ Riccardo Montolivo: In Gerrard's footsteps
personal data
SURNAME Montolivo, Riccardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Caravaggio , Italy