Mauro Camoranesi

Mauro Camoranesi 2008 at the jersey of Juventus

Mauro Germán Camoranesi Serra ( born October 4, 1976 in Tandil, Argentina ) is an Argentine- Italian football player who played for the Italian national football team.

Career

In the club

In the past, Mauro Camoranesi played for Santos Laguna (1996-1997) and Cruz Azul (1998-2000) in Mexico as well as the Club Atlético Banfield (1997-1998) in his native Argentina. In 2000, Camoranesi moved to Italy, where he played for Hellas Verona.

In the summer of 2002 he was engaged by record champions Juventus. With the people of Turin he won the Italian championship in 2003. After Juventus were relegated to Serie B due to the manipulation scandal after the 2005/06 season, making transfer rumors to Camoranesi the round. The fans of the Bianconeri presented Camoranesis loyalty to the club in question and he was booed at the start of the 2006 /07 Juventus fans. With good performances but he conquered in the course of the season the respect of fans back and was a regular in the team of Didier Deschamps, the managed direct resurgence. In July 2007, his contract was extended in the Juve until 2010, in 2008 it was extended by another year. 7 August 2010 Mauro Camoranesi released his contract on with the people of Turin, after he had got there on the siding.

After the Gazzetta dello Sport speculating on a change from Mauro Camoranesi to Birmingham City, this end of August 2010 signed with VfB Stuttgart. There he was given a one year contract with an option for another season. His debut for the Stuttgart he celebrated on September 11, 2010, when he stood on Matchday 3 of the Bundesliga season 2010/11 against SC Freiburg equal in the initial lineup. VfB Stuttgart lost the match with 1:2 and the sports magazine " kicker " had evaluated the performance Camoranesis with a grade of 3. Five days after the match Christian Gross had complained that Camoranesi has to show more efficiency and expect " more influence " on him. A day later, he stood in the first Europa League group match against Young Boys Bern in the initial formation and showed here a mixed until sufficient power ( kicker Note 4). Again, two days later he came on Matchday 4 against Borussia Mönchengladbach on his second Bundesliga game and showed a good performance. Retrieved from " kicker " Camoranesi is rated a 2. This he crowned with the template for the second goal of Swabia by Georg Niedermeier Meier. The Stuttgart won the game 7-0 in the end. In the next match against 1 FC Nuremberg Camoranesi came off the bench for the next match against Bayer 04 Leverkusen indeed to be in the starting line-up, however, being referred by an emergency brake of the field. VfB Stuttgart was after six games on the 18th and last place. For this reason, Christian Gross was replaced by Jens Keller in October 2010. Under him Camoranesi lost his place. So he was not even used or was merely a substitute. Only in the Europa League group games against Getafe and in the second group match against Young Boys Bern he was in the starting line-up. After the VfB meantime left the relegation zone, but slipped back there again, even Jens Keller had to leave his post. Bruno Labbadia became his successor. Under him Camoranesi came at the last Europa League group stage match against Odense BK for use after he came on in the 62nd minute. On January 26, 2011, his contract was dissolved. Camoranesi came for the Swabians in the operating point game only to seven missions while he was in the Europa League in all six group matches are used.

On 3 February 2011 Camoranesi moved to Argentina for Lanus. In July 2012, he moved within the league for Racing Club.

In the National Team

Camoranesi was born in Argentina and has both the Argentine and Italian citizenship, as a grandparent came from Italy. To qualify for the European Championship 2004, he was appointed to the Italian national team and played regularly since then for this to June 2010. Original Camoranesi: " I landed in the Italian national team, because Bielsa, who coached Argentina, has not called me, but probably Trapattoni. " His international debut he gave on 12 February 2003 in a 1-0 against Portugal.

In 2006 he won the World Cup with Italy. Camoranesi came here in five of seven games to use (including the semi-final against Germany and in the final against France) and was in position on the right wing an important part of the Italian team. His ponytail, he wore out ties with the South American home, he was still cut off on the field right after the final.

As preferring the Italian national team of Argentina, he made the following statement: "I still feel as Argentines, and this has nothing to do with my personal self-discovery. It is a football question, nothing else " He also made it clear: ". . I do not sing the Inno di Mameli ( Italian National Anthem ) with, because I do not even know my own "

The Italian journalist Aldo Cazzullo describes his footballing technique as follows: "He is a winger old shock, does not sacrifice the Dribbling the myth of possession, which goes into the depths of space and at times reminded on the game that the foot and the paragraph belongs. "