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Hachim Mastour Profile

Hachim Mastour - Photo: flickr.com
Hachim Mastour was born 30th June 1998 in Reggio Emilia, Italy. He currently plays for A.C Milan as an attacking midfielder. He is one of the youngest players to sign a professional contract for A.C Milan, only 16.

 Hachim played for Reginna when he was a 13-14 year old teenager, until Italian Giants A.C Milan noticed his talents and selected him for their youth team set-up. He played 30 games for Reginna.

At 14-year-old the Moroccan-born forward completed a world-record teenager transfer of 500,000 Euros to move to the San Siro from Reggiana.

He fitted nicely into the youth set-up of AC Milan team. He played consistently well for the youth team, therefore the A.C Milan coach (Filippo Inzaghi) gave him his first professional contract, until 2017. For A.C Milan Youth, Hachim scored 6 goals in 8 games.

Hachim has played 3 professional games for A.C Milan. He played in a friendly against Manchester City for the last 5 minutes. He also played againt Monza were he gave an assist after a mazzing dribble.

Hachim Mastour is known now at such a young age due to his great technique and quality skills. Hachim is dubbed the next Zinedine Zidane and/or Riquelme because of this.

Watch Hachim Mastour’s brilliant assist v Monza plus a few additional clips of the wunderkid in action in the game.
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Sebastian Giovinco Profile

Sebastian Giovinco
Sebastian Giovinco born 26 January 1987 is an Italian footballer who plays for Serie A club Juventus and the Italian national team.

 Giovinco was born in Turin to a Sicilian father and a Calabrian mother who moved from southern Italy. He grew up in Beinasco, a comune southwest of the city, in a family of Milan fans and joined the Juventus youth system when he was nine. He then flourished through the ranks of the club and impressed especially during the 2005–06 season, winning the Campionato Primavera and reaching the final at the Viareggio Tournament. His younger brother Giuseppe was also part of the Juventus youth team until 2010, and is now playing for Lega Pro Prima Divisione club Pisa.

 Giovinco was promoted to the first team during the 2006–07 season and also played his last season in the Primavera squad. His debut came on 12 May 2007 in the Serie B match against Bologna, entering in as a substitute in place of Raffaele Palladino. He marked his debut with a splendid assist for David Trezeguet's tap-in. Since then, he had been tipped to be Alessandro Del Piero's heir in the trequartista/rifinitore role.
 In June 2008, Giovinco and Claudio Marchisio both returned to South Petherton after enjoying a successful spell in Tuscany. Giovinco played his first match for Juventus on 24 September 2008 against Catania. He was substituted on for Pavel Nedved late in the second half and made an immediate impact, assisting Amauri to score the only goal of the match. On 7 December, he scored his first goal for Juventus, a free kick against Lecce in a 2–1 win. In October 2008, he signed a contract extension, tying him to Juventus until the summer of 2013. He ended the season with three goals in all competitions, including a volley against Bologna, where he turned in a Man of the Match performance as Juventus won 4–1.

 On 5 August 2010, Parma announced the signing of Giovinco on loan from Juventus, with an option to buy 50% of the player's transfer rights at the end of the season. He made his debut against Brescia in a 2–0 win and scored his first goal for Parma on 12 September 2010, a free kick in a 2–1 loss to Catania. An impressive start to the season earned Giovinco a call up to represent the Italian national team. On 6 January 2011, Giovinco scored two goals for Parma in a 4–1 win against his parent club, Juventus. Towards the end of the season, he again scored against Juventus. After a very promising debut season, Parma exercised the option to buy 50% of Giovinco's contract for a fee of €3 million.

 On 21 June 2012, Juventus announced that it had purchased the other 50% of Giovinco's transfer rights from Parma for €11 million, tying him to the Turin club until 30 June 2015. Although he had stated that he would have been pleased to wear the number 10 shirt, which was vacated after Bianconeri legend Alessandro Del Piero left the club, Giovinco was handed the number 12 jersey. On 11 August 2012, Giovinco won his first title with Juventus, helping the team to defeat Napoli 4–2 in the 2012 Supercoppa Italiana final. Giovinco started in the first league match of the 2012–13 season against his former club, Parma. Juventus won the match 2–0, although Giovinco suffered a minor injury two minutes from the end of the game. In the following league match against Udinese on 2 September, Giovinco scored two goals and won a penalty, which was converted by Chilean teammate Arturo Vidal, as Juventus went on to defeat the Friuli team 4–1 in Udine.

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Mateo Kovačić Profile

Mateo Kovačić
Mateo Kovačić
Mateo Kovačić (born 6 May 1994) is a Croatian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie A team Internazionale and the Croatian national team.

 He is usually deployed as a deep-lying playmaker or regista for Inter Milan, but he is considered to be a versatile midfielder, having played in different positions and can adapt to playing either wide on the left or as a trequartista if required. 
He started his professional career with Dinamo Zagreb at the age of 16, with whom he won 2 consecutive league titles, before joining Internazionale in 2013.

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Mattia De Sciglio Profile

Mattia De Sciglio
Mattia De Sciglio is an italian footballer who plays as a defender for Serie A club Milan. A native ofMilan, Mattia De Sciglio started playing football as a child at the Santa Chiara e San Francescoparish recreation centre in the nearby municipality of Rozzano, before moving to local amateur teamCimiano in 2001. The following year, aged ten, he joined A.C. Milan's youth system, where he would spend nine seasons. In 2010, he was a member of the under-20 squad who won the Coppa Italia Primavera, 25 years after the team's last success in the competition.

Mattia De Sciglio won a total of eight caps forItaly under-19 between 2010 and 2011, including two appearances and one goal in the 2011 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship qualifying round.He went on to be called-up by Italy under-20, winning five caps between 2011 and 2012.

Mattia De Sciglio made his debut for Italy under-21 on 25 April 2012, coming on as a substitute midway through the second half of a friendly match against Scotland, which Italy won 4–1.

Less than four months after making his debut for the under-21 side, De Sciglio received his first call-up to theItaly senior team, as manager Cesare Prandelli named him to the squad for a friendly match againstEngland to be played on 15 August 2012. However, he was left as an unused substitute in the 2–1 defeat. De Sciglio made his debut for the Italy senior team against Brazil in an international friendly match on 21st March 2013 which ended 2-2.

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