Italian winger Antonio Kandreva

Antonio Kandreva is an Italian football player who plays for the Roman "Lazio". This year he turned 29, and he is at the peak of his career. Antonio Kandrewa acts as the right winger, but can also play deeper in the midfield on the right, and if necessary even move to the center on the position of the attacking midfielder.

Carier start

Antonio Kandreva was born on February 28, 1987 in Italy, but he started playing football professionally quite late. Only at the age of fifteen he was seen in the tiny club "Lodijani", from which he moved to Ternan a year later - that's where he made his first professional contract in 2005 when he turned eighteen. From the first season, Antonio Kandreva became the main player in the club and played 29 matches for the team. The second season was no longer so good, and the winger came on the field only 16 times - but this was enough to attract the attention of the club from the Major League. And in the summer of 2007 Kandreev moved to Udinese for 500 thousand euros.

Transition to "Udinese" and lease

However, in Udinese football player was not destined to gain a foothold - for a whole year he entered the field only three times, so the club management decided to send him on lease. For a year and a half Kandreev spent in Livorno, playing 55 games and scoring two goals. The remaining half of the season 09/10 Antonio spent in Juventus, the strongest club in Italy - and there he went on the field 20 times, scoring two more goals. In 2010, Antonio Kandreva, whose photos after success in Juventus began to appear in local football magazines, moved for another year to Parma, where he played 33 matches and scored three goals, and after that he was sent for another half a year to rent in "To the Cesena." There, he scored two goals in 21 matches, and when he returned to Udinese in the winter of 2012, he was sent for half a year to rent in "Lazio", where he was able to eventually open up.

The game for "Lazio"

For those six months, Kandreev played in the form of "Lazio" in 17 games, scoring three goals. Speeches football player liked the management of the club, and the lease was extended for another year, and "Lazio" got the right to buy a player. For this year Antonio became one of the key players of the attack, entered the field 49 times and scored 7 goals. Naturally, it was decided to pay eight million euros and buy the player. As a result, it was in "Lazio" that Kandreev reached the highest level, becoming the top player. As a full-fledged player, he spent three more seasons in the club, bringing his statistics to 191 matches and 45 goals. He entered the top 20 in the number of matches played and in the top ten by the number of goals scored. But in the summer of 2016, the time for change came - for 22 million euros Kandreeva was sold to Milan's Inter.

A new beginning

In the "Inter" winger signed the agreement until 2020 and at the moment played 13 matches, scoring one goal and giving three assists.

National team appearances

Kandreev debuted for the Italian national team in November 2009, but after two debut matches was not called in the national team for three years. Only in 2012 he was constantly called in the national team, and he gradually became an important member of the team. He played three matches at the Confederations Cup 2013, two matches at the 2014 World Cup and two more matches at the 2016 European Championships. In total for the Italian national team he had 43 matches, scoring five goals and giving 13 assists. In the team he is unlikely to become a record holder, since he is already 29 years old - this is a good age for a football player, but if Kandreva wanted to dream about the records of the national team, it would have to be called in the national team before and used more often.

Personal life

How did you arrange your family Antonio Kandreva? The personal life of the player develops successfully - in 2010 he married his girlfriend Valentine Bianchifiori, and a little later they had a daughter who was called Bianco.