Diego Contento

Diego Contento (2010)

Diego Armando Contento Valentin (born 1 May 1990 in Munich) is a German footballer who also has Italian citizenship. He is currently under contract at Bayern Munich.

Career

Clubs

Contento came in 1995 at the age of four years in the youth department of FC Bayern Munich after him a Bayern youth coach had observed while playing soccer with his brothers. Since that time there were no G- youth, he played the first three years, the F- youth.

He moved on to the second team in December 2008. Making its debut in the newly created 3 League on December 16, 2008 ( 16th Round ) in a 2-0 win in the away game against Kickers Emden he scored in the 16th minute with the game 1-0 for Bayern 's first goal in the professional football. It joined eleven other missions, in which he scored another goal. In the following season 2009/10 he was regularly employed.

On 13 January 2010 he received a to 30 June 2011 dated professional contract at Bayern and trained with the Bundesliga team under Louis van Gaal. Within ten days Contento debuted in three different competitions for the first team of FC Bayern Munich: On 10 February 2010 at the quarter-finals of the DFB Cup against SpVgg Greuther Fürth, when he came on in the 59th minute for Christian Lell, on 17 February. Champions League first knockout round first leg 2-1 win over Fiorentina when he came off the bench for the second half for Daniel Van Buyten and finally on 20 February ( 23 Matchday) in the 1-1 draw in the Away Bundesliga match against 1 FC Nuremberg from the start for the injured Van Buyten.

On 27 May 2010 Contento extended his contract with Bayern until 2013, after he had made in the 2009/10 season nine games in the Bundesliga. In the season 2010/11 he ran 14 times for the first team of Bayern. In June 2012, Contento extended his contract with Bayern until 2016. In the 2012/13 season he won with Bayern the triple, but completed only five games in the Bundesliga.

National

Contento made ​​his debut on 9 October 2009 for the German U-20 national team in Solothurn in the game against Switzerland, which was lost with 2:3. For the European Championship qualifiers of the U- 21 team against the Czech Republic and Northern Ireland in early September 2010, he was appointed coach Rainer Adrion of the first time in the squad, but had to cancel due to injury.

Contento expressed the wish to be able to one day play for the Italian national team.

Achievements

  • FIFA Club World Cup: 2013
  • Champions League winner: 2013
  • Champions League finalists (2): 2010, 2012
  • UEFA Super Cup winner 2013
  • German master (3 ): 2010, 2013, 2014
  • DFB Cup winners (2): 2010, 2013
  • DFL - Supercup Winner 2010
  • German Junior B Champion 2007

Family

Contentos grandparents settled once as labor migrants from the area around Naples to Munich. His father is from Casal Nuovo, his mother is from Caivano. In Munich, Diego Armando Contento was born in 1990 as the third of four children. His parents gave him his first name based on the Argentine football legend Diego Armando Maradona, who played in their favorite club SSC Napoli. Contento has German and Italian citizenship.

Contentos older brothers Vincenzo " Enzo " (* 1983) and Domenico ( born 1985 ) also played for Bayern Munich: Enzo was 2001 A - Junior Champion and Domenico in the same year B- junior champion. Enzo, Domenico and father Pasquale and friends founded in 2004 to FC Azzurri Munich, where two cousins ​​of Contento play.

Italy 2013 FIFA Club World Cup 2009–10 DFB-Pokal 2012–13 DFB-Pokal Casalnuovo di Napoli David Alaba Holger Badstuber Dante (footballer) Toni Kroos Philipp Lahm Manuel Neuer Arjen Robben Bastian Schweinsteiger Tom Starke Mitchell Weiser
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