Bernardo Corradi
Bernardo Corradi 2008
Bernardo Corradi ( born March 30, 1976 in Siena) is an Italian football player.
Career
His first experience with the round leather Bernardo Corradi gathered in his home city of Siena on a small football field of the Capuchins. After elementary school he played basketball and also practiced athletics. He found it always easy to exercise football next to the school because he attended the Liceo classico ES Piccolomini to the effect offered him a lot of freedom.
In his first club, the AC Siena he was never used and he had to settle in the early days of his career with clubs in the lower leagues Italian, until 1997, in Sardinia Cagliari Calcio attention to him. His debut in Serie A, he celebrated in 1999 against his later club Lazio. In the later episode Corradi graduated to substitute and a change to Chievo Verona in the summer of 2001, improved his position. 20 goals in 65 games for Verona brought Corradi and his club a contract for four million euros to Inter Milan. There, however, he could not establish and only after a month he moved to Lazio Rome itself.
In the 2003 /04 season Corradi contributed ten goals to the success of his club. The team won the Italian Cup and finished the season in sixth place. In the season 2004/ 05 Corradi changed for the first time abroad to Spain for first division club Valencia CF. The Spanish club took place with Lazio a contract for 16.6 million euros for the two players Corradi and Stefano Fiore. In Valencia Corradi came in 21 games for use and scoring three goals.
Since 2005 he plays in the Italian Serie A. He was awarded by Valencia for a season at FC Parma, where he established himself as a regular player and was able to achieve ten goals in 36 games. In the season 2006/ 07 he moved for the release of three million euros in the Premier League to Manchester City. DC in his first race for Manchester City he saw there a second yellow card. He made his first goals until 13 matches and he again had a second yellow card on 17 Round Square, he lost his place to Emile Mpenza. After this disappointing year, he sought a return to Italy. First you lent him for the 2007 /08 season again at Parma, where he played a decent season despite relegation to Serie B. In summer 2008, the striker then moved to the Serie A club Reggina Calcio, but also his hit could Reggina in the following season not save them from relegation to Serie B, so that it a year later Udinese Calcio joined. Since January 2012, the Italians played in the North American Major League Soccer Montreal Impact.
National
Bernardo Corradi made his debut on 12 February 2003 in the match against Portugal for the Italian national football team. In his first five games for his country, he scored two goals and was the former national team coach Giovanni Trapattoni a real alternative. Corradi took Italy participated in the 2004 European Championship in Portugal and came in the match against Bulgaria ( 2-1 ) are used. Overall Corradi has played 13 games for the Azzurri.
Achievements
- Italian Cup: 2004
- UEFA Super Cup: 2004
- Participation in the 2004 European Cup ( 1 Application )