Profile Ezequiel Lavezzi

Personal information

Full name : Ezequiel Iván Lavezzi

Date of birth : 3 May 1985

Place of birth : Villa Gobernador Gálvez, Argentina

Height : 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)

Playing position : Forward

Current club : Napoli

Number : 22

Youth career :

1995–2003 Boca Juniors

Senior career :

2003–2004 Estudiantes-BA

2004–2005 Genoa

2004–2005 San Lorenzo (loan)

2005–2007 San Lorenzo

2007– Napoli

National team :

2007–2008 Argentina U-20

2008 Argentina U-23

2007– Argentina

Club career

Early career

The media, as they tend to do to a lot pledging young Argentine players whoever emerge in Italy, have been quick to dub Lavezzi the "New Maradona". Lavezzi himself, however, dramas this down, instead comparing himself to another young Argentine actor, Carlos Tévez. Despite this, his style very much chases the morals of Argentine Football Creole Style prepared legendary via Maradona himself. As a youngster, Lavezzi had a very eager hobby in football and advocated his regional side Rosario Central; he would subsequent obtain their badge tattooed on his chest. From a very young age, the footballing talent of Lavezzi was identified, as he played in the youth squads of Rosario Central. After being discarded in Boca Juniors. Lavezzi shifted to the youth side of Estudiantes de Buenos Aires in 2003, where across one season, he played 39 sport and scored 17 goals.

Genoa

Known as el Pocho or the Chubby One, he was purchased via Italian side Genoa in 2004 for €1 million, but was lent out straight-away to Argentina side San Lorenzo. Here at the age of 19, he competed in the Apertura 2004 tournament scoring six targets in total across the course of the season; which saw him ending as 4th lid scorer.Lavezzi's majority notable contributions included a dramatic exertion against River Plate at the El Monumental. He scored in the 69th tiny to give San Lorenzo a legendary victory and seriously harm River's name challenge. This accrued him the nickname la Bestia ("the Beast") from the Argentine media.

Although it was planned for Lavezzi to return rear to Genoa afterwards a season on lend, there were problems: whereas Lavezzi was playing in Argentina, Genoa were interested in an alleged match-fixing scandal which saw them relegated down to Serie C1, the third horizontal of Italian football. Due to commercial constraints, the pledging forth was marketed to San Lorenzo for €1.2 million.

San Lorenzo

On his return to San Lorenzo for the Apertura 2005 season, he handled to aid the club upward into the lid half of the desk, and with eight targets, he done as the overall fourth lid scorer. His final behave as a San Lorenzo actor was to aid them to the Clausura 2007 name, defeating out Boca Juniors via six points.

Napoli

Napoli had freshly achieved advertisement rear to Serie A, afterwards finalising as runners-up the earlier season in Serie B. Looking to reinforce their squad for a return to the lid horizontal, Napoli gestured Lavezzi on a five-year contract on 5 July 2007. The transfer sell was value circle €6 million and he was handed ago the fans and given the #7 shirt for his first season. Lavezzi shortly prepared an impact for the club via scoring a hat-trick in a 3–1 victory across Pisa in the Coppa Italia at the Stadio San Paolo; this was the first hat-trick via a Napoli actor in 14 years. The first league target Lavezzi scored for Napoli came during a 5–0 victory against Udinese on two September 2007. After the suit, he was reported in informs as "inspirational," with the media heralding, "Napoli's star is born." The Neapolitan club hadn't won a league suit via such a great margin since 1988, as shortly as Diego Maradona was at the club.

He ended the 2007–08 season with eight targets in 35 games. He rapidly became a focal point of the fans' affection with his skills. In the 2008–09 season, he scored seven targets in thirty games.In the 2009/2010 he scored eight targets in thirty sport but he had not played circle ten sport because of injuries.

International career

Lavezzi prepared his global debut for the Argentine national team team against Chile on 18 April 2007. He was selected to pose Argentina at the 2008 Olympics. He scored pair targets, one against Australia on ten August 2008, and a punishment against Serbia on 13 August 2008. Lavezzi also emerged in the final minutes of extra time against Nigeria, in a game Argentina won 1–0. On the 17th of November 2010, Argentina faced Brazil in a friendly suit in Qatar, in which Argentina won via a target from Lionel Messi in the injury time afterwards a exquisite one-two play with Lavezzi. Lavezzi's club model was not enough to perceive him included in Diego Maradona's 2010 FIFA World Cup squad.