Andrea Barzagli
Andrea Barzagli 2012
Andrea Barzagli (born 8 May 1981 in Fiesole) is an Italian football player.
He plays the position of defender at Juventus in Serie A and belonged to the world champion squad of the Italian national football team in the FIFA World Cup 2006 in Germany.
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Career
Career in Italy (1998-2008)
Andrea Barzagli began his career in located near his home town of Fiesole Florence in Rondinella Calcio in Serie D. He played two and a half seasons, before he moved to AC Pistoiese to Serie B, but where he was not able to prevail and 2001 for a short time again returned to Rondinella. For the season 2001 /02 Barzagli changed for the first time to a club outside of Tuscany, namely series -C1 - club Ascoli Calcio. There he was able to earn a regular place. In the first season in Ascoli promotion to the second highest Italian league.
Thanks to its impressive performance, he came to the fore of different Serie A clubs. So it was hardly surprising, as Barzagli at the end of the 2002/ 03 moved from Ascoli to AC Chievo Verona, where he made the jump right away in the trunk of the squad. After a season in Verona, he moved to Palermo, where he was for four years in stem formation and in the 2007/ 08 season was also team captain.
VfL Wolfsburg (2008-2010)
For the season 2008/ 09 Andrea Barzagli changed hands for about ten million euros for Bundesliga VfL Wolfsburg, where he was awarded a three -year contract. There he met Cristian Zaccardo, who had recently also changed from Palermo to Germany. He won in 2009 with the wolves the first league title in club history. This season, he came to a total of 3060 minutes of the game - so he was next to the goalkeepers Jens Lehmann (VfB Stuttgart ), Gerhard Tremmel ( Energie Cottbus ), Dennis Eilhoff ( Arminia Bielefeld) and Frank Rost (Hamburg ) is the only outfield player at all 34 match days was from the first to the 90th minute on the field. Being the journal Kicker certified him the "Save- stabilizer " of eleven champions have been, but complained that he "barely impetus for the campaign" went out.
In the following season, 2009/10, neither of the VfL Wolfsburg Andrea Barzagli still able to build on the successes of the previous year. Under coach Armin Veh, who should replace its lost to Schalke 04 Felix Magath, Barzagli was not always in the starting eleven of the VfL . After the dismissal of Veh end of January 2010 but he got under interim coach Lorenz - Guenther Koestner again more periods of use. At the end of the season came on Barzagli 24 appearances in the Bundesliga, two in the Champions League and the DFB Cup and three in the Europa League. This season, which ended the VfL eighth place, Barzagli finally was able to shoot his first goal. On 4 April 2010, he scored with his head 2-0 against TSG 1899 Hoffenheim ( Full 4-0).
In his third season Barzagli got by new coach Steve McClaren with the German international Arne Friedrich and Dane Simon Kjaer two competitors for the central defender position. In the DFB-Pokal match against Preußen Münster the duo Friedrich / Kjær was over 90 minutes on the court, Barzagli had to take place on the bench. Since competitor Arne Friedrich but injured and was subsequently operated on, which meant for Andrea Barzagli that he stand on Matchday 1 against Bayern Munich back on the court and could play in place of Frederick.
Return to Italy (2011)
After he had lost at the start of the season his place at the Wolfsburg team at the Friedrich -again, Barzagli VfL left six months before contract ends. For about half a million euros, he moved back to Italy end of January 2011 and signed with Juventus Turin. There he had immediately return a fixed place and denied almost all of the remaining season games in Serie A over the full distance.
In the top game in the 2013/2014 season against AS Roma, Barzagli completed his 100th Serie A match for Juventus.
In the National Team
Andrea Barzagli denied a total of 23 appearances for the Italian U-20 and U-21 selections and won in 2004 under coach Claudio Gentile the U-21 European title and the bronze medal at the Summer Olympic Games in Athens.
Barzagli debuted on 17 November 2004 under Marcello Lippi 's 1-0 win over Finland in the Italian national team. Since then he belongs to the permanent group of national players and was able to celebrate with Italy winning the world title at the 2006 World Cup in Germany the biggest success of his career.
Was also at the 2008 European Championship in Austria and Switzerland Barzagli in the squad of the Italians. He graduated at this tournament a game and pulled ahead of the quarter-final against eventual winners Spain in which the Azzurri on penalties subject to a knee injury that forced him to a one-month break.
At the 2012 European Championship in Poland and Ukraine Barzagli was Vice-European Champion. The performance of Italy, which was eliminated in the 2010 World Cup in the first round, was considered a success and rebirth of the team. In the first few games against Spain and Croatia coach Prandelli left with three defenders and a wide midfield play. From the third game until the final one acted with a back four and Barzagli played as a regular force in the right central defense behind playmaker Andrea Pirlo the tournament by.
Achievements
- Olympic bronze: 2004
- U-21 European Championship: 2004
- World Champion: 2006
- German Champion 2008 /09
- Italian Champion: 2011/ 12, 2012/13
- European runners-up: 2012
- Italian Super Cup winner: 2012, 2013
- Third in the Confederations Cup: 2013