Ricardo Gabriel Ãlvarez
Ricardo Gabriel Álvarez ( born April 12, 1988 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine- Italian football player who since 2011 is under contract with Inter Milan. His preferred position is attacking midfield.
Club career
Alvarez played in the Youth for Caballito Juniors, Club Parque, CA Boca Juniors and Velez Sarsfield, where since January 2008 he is part of the senior squad. On 8 June 2008, he debuted in the Premiera Division, when he came off the bench in the game against CA Independiente. With Velez Sarsfield he won in 2009 and 2011, the Clausura championship.
In the summer of 2011 changed Álvarez, which was also Arsenal and AS Roma were interested to Italian giants Inter Milan. The Milan paid for the 23 -year-old attacking midfielder, who is in South America called " Kaka from Velez ", about twelve million euros, a sum which the contract after 80 duty stakes increased by a further million euros. His competitive debut for the Nerazzurri he was 6 August 2011 against AC Milan in the match for the Italian Super Cup, which was lost with 1:2. After initial difficulties, to participate in the play of Milan, and various violations of Alvarez and increased since the end of the season 2012/13 starting players of the Nerazzurri.
National
On September 2, 2011 Álvarez was in a friendly against Venezuela made his debut in the Argentine national soccer team. The game ended with a 1-0 victory for the Albiceleste.