Antonio Candreva is an Italian footballer who plays for the Roman Lazio. This year he turned 29 years old, and he is at the peak of his career. Antonio Kandreva acts in the position of the right winger, but can also play deeper in the midfield on the right, and if necessary, even move to the center to the position of the attacking midfielder.
Carier start
Antonio Kandreva was born on February 28, 1987 in Italy, but he started playing football professionally rather late. Only at the age of fifteen he went through a viewing in the tiny club Lodigani, from which he moved to Ternana a year later - it was there that he entered into his first professional contract in 2005, when he turned eighteen. From the very first season, Antonio Kandreva became the main player in the club and spent 29 matches for the team. The second season was not so good already, and the winger entered the field only 16 times - however, this turned out to be enough to attract the attention of the club from the Premier League. And in the summer of 2007, Kandreva moved to Udinese for 500 thousand euros.
Going to Udinese and renting
However, in Udinese, the football player was not destined to gain a foothold - for the whole year he went on the field only three times, so the club management decided to send him on lease. Kandreva spent a year and a half at Livorno, having played 55 matches and scoring two goals. The remaining half of the season 09/10 Antonio spent in Juventus, the strongest club in Italy - and there he entered the field 20 times, scoring two more goals. In 2010, Antonio Kandreva, photographs of which, after successes at Juventus began to appear in local football magazines, moved to Parma for another year, where he played 33 matches and scored three goals, after which he was sent on loan for another six months Cesena. There he scored two goals in 21 matches, and when he returned to Udinese in the winter of 2012, he was sent for rent for six months to Lazio, where he could eventually open up.
The game for Lazio
For those six months, Kandreva played in the form of “Lazio” in 17 matches, scoring three goals. The club’s executives liked the club’s performances, and the lease was extended for another year, and Lazio received the buyback rights of the player. This year, Antonio became one of the key players in the attack, entered the field 49 times and scored 7 goals. Naturally, it was decided to pay eight million euros and redeem the player. As a result, it was at Lazio that Kandreva reached the highest level, becoming a top player. As a full-fledged player, he spent three more seasons at the club, bringing his statistics to 191 matches and 45 goals. He entered the top twenty record holders by the number of matches played and the top ten by the number of goals scored. But in the summer of 2016, the time for change came - for 22 million euros, Kandreva was sold to Inter Milan.
A new beginning
At Inter, the winger signed an agreement until 2020 and has currently played 13 matches, scoring one goal and giving three assists.
Team appearances
Kandreva made his debut for the Italian national team in November 2009, but after two debut matches he was not called up to the national team for three years. Only in 2012, they began to constantly call him to the national team, and he gradually became an important member of the team. He played three matches at the 2013 Confederations Cup, two matches at the 2014 World Cup and two more matches at the 2016 European Championship. In total for the Italian team, he spent 43 matches, scoring five goals and giving 13 assists. In the national team, he is unlikely to be able to become a champion, since he is already 29 years old - this is a good age for a football player, but if Kandreva wanted to dream about national team records, he would need to be called up to the national team earlier and used more often.
Personal life
How did Antonio Kandreva arrange his family? The personal life of the football player is developing successfully - in 2010 he married his girlfriend Valentina Bianchifiori, and a little later they had a daughter, who was named Bianca.