[People Profile] All We Know About Nicolo Zaniolo Biography, Career, Family, Networth

[People Profile] All We Know About Nicolo Zaniolo Biography, Career, Family, Networth

Nicolo Zaniolo born 2 July 1999 is an Italian professional footballer who is an attacking midfielder or winger with Serie A club Roma and the Italy national team.

Nicolò Zaniolo

Club life

Early in the career

Profiling Nicolò Zaniolo

A Quick Glance At Nicolò Zaniolo
Full NamesNicolò Zaniolo
Place of birthMassa, Italy
Date Of Birth2 July 1999
State of OriginMassa, Italy
ProfessionFootballer
position Attacking midfielder
Current teamRoma
careerNumber 22
Youth career
2008–2010 Genoa
2010–2016 Fiorentina
2016–2017 Virtus Entella
2017–2018 Inter Milan
Senior career*
Years Team
2016–2017 Virtus Entella
2017–2018 Inter Milan
2018– Roma
National team‡
2016–2017 Italy U18
2017–2018 Italy U19
2018–2019 Italy U21
2019– Italy
Salary£75,000 per week
Net Worth5 Million Euro

The birthplace of Zaniolo was Massa, Tuscany, Zaniolo was raised as a member of the Fiorentina youth system. The day before the end of the 2016 mid-year transition window, he got let go by Fiorentina which led to his joining Virtus Entella. After a couple of months with Entella Primavera, Entella Primavera side, Zaniolo made his debut for the professional team with Serie B on 11 March 2017 at the age of 17 with a 3-2 victory over Benevento. He made seven games for the Biancocelesti during the 2016-17 season.

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On July 5, 2017 Inter Milan announced they had signed Zaniolo for the reported sum in the region of EUR1.8 million, and EUR1.7 million in bonus funds. Zaniolo was a part of the Primavera team in the 2017-18 season and finished highest scorer with 13 goals, and also being awarded the Campionato Nazionale Primavera. Zaniolo was made an Inter debut at a preseason match on July 9th, 2017. However, he was unable to participate in any games of competition for Inter’s first squad.

Roma

Season 2018-19

In June of 2018 the news broke in June 2018 that Zaniolo as well as Davide Santon had signed with Roma as part of the deal that would see them move Radja Nainggolan from Inter. Zaniolo had his medical completed on the 25th of June and signed a five-year deal with the club for an amount of EUR4.5 million, plus 15% of resell revenues. Zaniolo made his debut for Roma and also made his UEFA Champions League debut on 19 September in the 3-0 loss to Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu. His Serie A debut on 26 September, aged 19 during the home match, which was that was a 4-0 win against Frosinone. On the 26th of December the same day, he got his goal for the first time in Serie A in a 3-1 victory against Sassuolo. In the following year, in an UEFA Champions League match against FC Porto, Zaniolo became the youngest Italian player to score two goals in a single game in the tournament, scoring two goals for Roma in a 2-1 victory.

2019-20 season

On January 12, 2020 Zaniolo was injured with an anterior ligament injury to his right knee, during the 2-1 loss at home to Juventus. Zaniolo returned to training the latter part of June 2020. Additionally, he was presented with letters of encouragement from the Italian and international footballing community, which included Roberto Mancini, Roberto Baggio as well as Francesco Totti, who had previously undergone surgery by the same surgeon.

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Even though he was scheduled to miss the remainder of the soccer season and, probably, the coming UEFA Euro 2020 before the decision by UEFA’s March 2020 committee to postpone the event for a year and all football activities across Europe were suspended until March 2020 due to the COVID-19 epidemic, with competitions for clubs scheduled to be played in closed-doors starting from the end of the summer.

On the 5th of July in 2020, Zaniolo returned to action after an injury on the field after 66 minutes of an away Serie A 1-2 loss against Napoli. One week later, Zaniolo scored his first post-injury goal in the away Serie A 3-0 win over Brescia and was followed by a further goal at the end of an away 6-1 Serie A win over SPAL on 22 July.

2020-present

Zaniolo was out of the 2020-21 season because of another anterior cruciate ligament strain that he sustained in September of 2020 during an international holiday. Zaniolo was back on the pitch in July 2021 for pre-season, under the newly appointed head coach Jose Mourinho.

Zaniolo made his debut goal following returning from the second knee injury during the 3-0 victory against Trabzonspor in the first UEFA Europa Conference League. On May 25, 2022, he scored his sole goal as Roma defeated Feyenoord at the end of the game to be the winners of the Europa Conference League.

International career

Youth

As part of the Italy under-19 team Zaniolo participated in the tournament in 2018. UEFA European Under-19 Championship, making it to the final of the competition, in which Italy was defeated 4-3 after an extra period against Portugal.

The player made debut for the Italy U21 squad on the 11th of October, 2018, under the management of Luigi Di Biagio, in the 1-0 loss in a friendly match against Belgium.

Senior

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On the 1st of September, 2018, the player was granted his first international call-up as a senior player in Italy from the manager Roberto Mancini – without having been granted a cap in Serie A – for Italy’s first UEFA Nations League matches against Poland and Portugal later in the month.

The player made his first appearance for the senior squad on the 23rd of March, 2019 as an alternate for Verratti in the 2-0 win at home against Finland in Italy’s first UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying match. He made his debut for Italy on October 15 during a 5-0 home win against Liechtenstein as part of an Euro 2020 qualifier. First international goals were scored on 18 November, scoring a brace during the 9-1 win at home against Armenia during the final Euro 2020 qualifier; he also helped to score Ciro Immobile’s second goal in the game.

On the 7th of September, 2020 following his selection to Italy for the start of their season in 2020-21 UEFA Nations League, he suffered his third anterior cruciate ligament tear within 8 months. This time, it was on the left knee during an eventual 1-0 victory away against the Netherlands.

The style of the game

With a height of 1.90 6’3″ in Zaniolo is tall strong, powerful, and quick player who is also adept at dribbling. A versatile player, thanks to his innate creativity, his technique working rate, energy, and strength, he is able to play in a variety of midfield positions. He has been employed in the role of an offensive midfielder, or “trequartista,” as an offensive central midfielder, as well as a “mezzala,” as a box-to-box midfielder or as a playmaker who is deep-lying.

He is also able to play in the flanks, thanks to his goal-scoring abilities as well as his ability to create opportunities that teammates can benefit from, his range his game offers, and the danger he presents to attackers due to his strike ability from distance , as well as his propensity for running late.

A skilled player, he’s regarded as one of Europe’s as well as Italy’s most promising young players.

 

 

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