Italian striker Alessandro Matri

Alessandro Matri is an Italian striker who now plays for Sassuolo. His career is drawing to a close, as this year he turned 32 years old. Alessandro Matri plays exclusively on the position of the central striker, being a classic "nine", the tip of the attacks.

Club career

Alessandro Matri started his football career in a tiny club "Fanfulla" at the age of 11 years, but a year later passed a viewing in "Milan", the academy of which he moved. There he trained for six years, in parallel speaking for youth compositions of various levels, and in 2002 he signed a professional contract with the club.

The first two years, Matri acted exclusively for a double, getting into the main team is extremely rare. For two seasons he appeared on the field only once, so the management decided to lease it. First he spent one year in a small club "Prato" from the C series, where he played 36 matches and scored five goals. Then he went for another year in rent to the C series, this time to the Lumetziane club, in which he showed an even more impressive result - 14 goals in 35 games. Then another year of rent followed, this time in the club of the regional league "Rimini", where Matri again could not impress, scoring only five goals in 30 matches.

"Milan" did not begin to extend cooperation with his pupil, and in the summer of 2007, for two and a half million euros, Alessandro Matri moved to Cagliari. There the striker was able to reveal himself: for three and a half years he played in 127 games, scoring 36 goals. So he drew the attention of the strongest club in Italy - "Juventus", who first leased the striker for 2.5 million euros, and then bought the rights to him for another 15.5 million euros.

Matri spent two and a half years at Juventus, having played 81 games and scoring 29 goals, after which in the summer of 2013 Milan decided to redeem his pupil for 11 million euros. But it was another mistake, in the camp of the "Rossoneri" Matri did not play: for six months in 18 games, he scored only one goal, after which he again went on rent. For a year and a half he visited Fiorentina, Genoa and again in Juventus, but in total he played 47 games, scoring just 14 goals. As a result, last season, Matri held a lease at Lazio, where he scored seven goals in 29 matches, and in the summer of 2016, when his contract with Milan expired, signed a two-year deal with Sassuolo, where he played seven games, but Until he was able to score a single goal.

National team appearances

For the Italian national team striker played only seven games, making his debut in March 2011 in a game against the national team of Ukraine. He came on as a substitute and immediately scored a goal, which became the only one in his career. Since Matri played six more matches, but never distinguished himself, and for the last time in the national team's shirt he went on the field in June 2015.

Personal life

As for the player's personal life, Alessandro Matri and his girlfriend Federica Narga, who works as a TV presenter, model, and also a singer, were engaged in 2009. Soon she became his wife. Federica is younger than a football player for six years.