Vincenzo Sarno

Vincenzo Sarno ( born March 11, 1988 in Casal Nuovo di Napoli) is an Italian football player. He was in the years 1999 and 2000 as the biggest young talent in world football and many sports newspapers hailed him as "Baby Maradona ".

Sports career

The Miracle Child

Attentive to his talent one was when he on account of its elegant virtuosity and ball handling the Golden Ball as the best player at the annual Torneo di Natale ( Christmas Tournament ), the most important youth tournament in Campania, was awarded in December 1998. He was accepted at the swank football school Gaetano Scirea in the district of Naples Secondigliano and played for the affiliated club. As Sarnos consultants and managers acted Gaetano Mosca, director of the Institute. He held up to his majority, all image and marketing rights. Numerous well-known clubs courted Sarno in a row - including Parma, Empoli FC, ​​Atalanta and Coventry City in England. The award was made in the spring of 1999, the Torino, the reportedly had to pay for about 60,000 euros to the parents of the player. This case has brought into focus Sarno an international public media; even CBS in the United States reported on him. According to the statutes of the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio players are allowed only from the age of 16, aground in the professional sector. For this reason, it is not uncommon for teams to scout already fifteen years old, so that they develop in their own youth system at very good players. That, however, such a young player like Sarno was obliged solved in addition to the enthusiasm for his football skills of controversial discussions. Although the family moved to extra- Turin, a transfer never came about because of the club to declare his resignation agreement two months later. The reason was a functionary that " the father wanted money again and again ."

More career

After completing his fourteenth year Sarno was committed by Roma. He trained in the renowned Centro sportivo Fulvio Bernardini in Trigoria and played three years in the youth teams of the club. Supposedly, the signature of the family brought a 158,000 euro. The amount would have still increased significantly, Sarno would have come in the higher-class teams to use. However, he left the AS Roma in October 2005 and moved to the then third-tier AC Sangiovannese from San Giovanni Valdarno. His thereat debut was two months later when he came off the bench for the final minutes of the game against ASD Torres Calcio. However, he had a hard connection to the team and agreed in February 2007 a ​​loan to league rivals Giulianova Calcio. Although Sarno performed well there, he returned to San Giovanni Valdarno in the first round of the 2007 /08 only five appearances and left the club in December 2007 by mutual agreement. In January 2008 he accepted an offer of the second division side Brescia Calcio. After only two Berückschtigungen in the second half he was placed freely at the end of the season and he signed a contract in October 2008 at Potenza SC - and was thus again in the third league. After a season followed in July 2009, a further change of club to league rivals Aurora Pro Patria. There, I finally managed Sarno to retrieve his potential and he became a key player of the team. However, the descent at the end of the 2009/10 season in the Lega Pro Seconda Divisione fourth-rate he could not prevent it. Although he promised to still play another year for the club, but could no longer pay his salary as Aurora Pro Patria due to financial difficulties, he announced in July 2011 on the contracts.

In the same month he was obliged Reggina Calcio until June 30, 2013 and has since played again in Serie B. However, it did in the first team prevail not and was therefore borrowed the beginning of 2012 to the third division SS Virtus Lanciano. There he succeeded in quickly establishing itself. The club finished the 2011/2012 season in fourth place in the table and therefore took to the relegation play-off games in part to series B. There, in the semi-final second leg against U.S. Siracusa 27 May 2012 Sarno scored the goal for 1-0 lead - the final score was 2-2. Added up, however, won Lanciano 3-2 and reached the finals against Trapani Calcio. After a 1-1 draw in the first leg Sarnos team won the return match on June 10, 3-1; he shot the Hits 2-1 lead. He contributed greatly to the rise of teams in Serie B at. After the end of the season he returned to Reggina. On October 27, 2012 with the opening goal in the 2-0 victory against Ascoli Calcio, he scored his first and only goal for Reggina. In January, a transfer was up for discussion, allegedly had Brescia Calcio and AC Chievo Verona at the first time a club in Serie A interest.

Overall Sarno showed during his time in Calabria convincing performance, but it did not come to a contract extension so that he was without a club since the end of the contract (July 1, 2013). In early August, he was taken with the also playing in Serie B Carpi FC connection, which offered him a two year contract. Since September 9, 2013, he plays for third division Virtus Entella.

National

Sarno played for the semi-professional Italian U-23 National Team, composed of players from the Lega Pro Prima Divisione and Seconda Divisione the Lega Pro. With the team, he participated among others in the International Challenge Trophy 2007-2009. On 14 November 2007 he was involved with two goals in the 4-2 victory of the Italians in the Stadio Franco Ossola Varese in this context in the group game against Wales and was named " Man of the Match " award.

Private

Sarno grew up in poor circumstances in the Neapolitan district Secondigliano. His father Ernesto (* 1958) was unemployed at the time of discovery of the footballing talent Vincenzo and helped from time to time in the bar of the local sports center from. Sarno had three siblings. The youngest brother Emanuele (* 1995) suffered from Down's syndrome and died in February 2010 from leukemia.

805497
de