Claudio Marchisio
Claudio Marchisio during the European Football Championship 2012
Claudio Marchisio ( born January 19, 1986 in Turin) is an Italian football player.
He is a midfielder and is at the Italian giants Juventus under contract.
Career
In the club
Claudio Marchisio began his career in the youth section of Juventus, which he ran until the Primavera, and with which he was both the Campionato Primavera, as well as the Torneo di Viareggio prestigious win and it was an outstanding player.
For the 2005/06 season was Claudio Marchisio by then coach Fabio Capello called for the first time in the first team and completed the entire pre-season with the first team, to use one in the pros, however, was not yet there. For the season 2006/ 07 he moved then finally on to the first team of Juve. His coach Didier Deschamps continued after the demotion because of the football scandal in 2005/ 06 to Serie B more on young players. Marchisio played a total of 25 games and managed with Juventus direct resurgence.
After the summer of 2007 some high profile midfielder, like Tiago and Sergio Bernardo Almirón, position was obliged to Marchisios, Juve decided to lend it to the Serie A rivals FC Empoli. There he played regularly and collected in 26 missions experience in Italy's top flight.
For the season 2008/ 09 Claudio Marchisio returned to Juventus. On January 24, 2009 in a 1-0 home win against Fiorentina, he scored his first goal in Serie A. In the following years he became the top performers in the Juve and won the 2011/12 under coach Antonio Conte its first Italian championship title. Marchisio made it along with Andrea Pirlo the central midfield axis and was instrumental with nine goals in 36 games unbeaten share of the Scudetto win.
In the National Team
Claudio Marchisio played his first junior international match for the Italian U -20 team on 13 September 2006 against the Swiss U -20. Since 2007 he has been active in the Italian U-21 national team. 2008, the midfielder won the Italian U -23 tournament from Toulon and joined the Olympic team at the football tournament in Beijing. Because of a muscle injury he suffered in the match against Honduras, the Olympic Games, however, were terminated after the second game for Marchisio.
12 August 2009 Claudio Marchisio made his debut under Marcello Lippi 0-0 friendly win against Switzerland in Basel in the Italian national team.
Achievements
- Italian Serie B champions: 2006/ 07
- Winner of the Tournament of Toulon: 2008
- Italian Champion: 2011/ 12, 2012/13
- European runners-up: 2012
- Italian Super Cup winner: 2012, 2013
- Third in the Confederations Cup: 2013