Melania Gabbiadini

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Melania Gabbiadini
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Melania Gabbiadini with Verona in 2015
Personal information
Full name Melania Gabbiadini
Date of birth (1983-08-28) 28 August 1983 (age 40)
Place of birth Calcinate, Italy
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Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 AGSM Verona
Number 8
Youth career
Bolgare
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2000–2004 Bergamo
2004– AGSM Verona
International career‡
2003– Italy 86 (30)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15:17, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 12:00, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Melania Gabbiadini (born 28 August 1983) is an Italian football forward who plays for and captains AGSM Verona of Serie A.[2] She has won five Scudetti with the club.[3] A fast winger,[4] Gabbiadini is an experienced member of the Italy women's national football team with over 85 caps. She is a veteran of Italy's 2005, 2009 and 2013 UEFA Women's Championship campaigns, being voted to the Squad of the Tournament in the latter edition.[5] Her younger brother Manolo Gabbiadini is also an Italian international footballer, currently playing for Napoli.[4] Gabbiadini has been voted the Serie A Female Footballer of the Year in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015.[6][7][8]

Club career

Gabbiadini began her career with Bergamo in 2000, winning the Serie B title with the club in 2002.[9] After the club's bankruptcy in 2004, she moved to AGSM Verona, the club with which she currently plays.[10] With Bardolino Verona, she has won the Serie A title during the 2004–05, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, and 2014–15 seasons, as well as the Coppa Italia during the 2005–06, and 2006–07 seasons, and the Supercoppa italiana in 2005, 2007, and 2008; she was also voted the Serie A Female Footballer of the Year in 2012, 2013, and 2014.[11][12] With Verona, she also reached the semi-finals of the 2007–08 UEFA Women's Cup.[13]

International career

After representing her country at under-21 level on 5 occasions, Gabbiadini made her senior debut for Italy on 16 April 2003, in a 5–0 away friendly win over the Netherlands.[14] Included in the squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2005 in North West England,[15] she scored twice in a 5–3 defeat to Norway as Italy made a group stage exit.

At UEFA Women's Euro 2009 in Finland, Gabbiadini played in all four games and scored in a 2–0 win over Russia as the Italians reached the quarter-finals.[16] Four years later, national coach Antonio Cabrini named Gabbiadini in his selection for UEFA Women's Euro 2013 in Sweden.[17] After scoring two goals in the group stage against Denmark[18] and hosts Sweden,[19] she played the entire match in the Italians' 1–0 quarter-final defeat to perennial champions Germany.[20] She was voted to the Squad of the Tournament for her performances.[5]

Style of play

A quick forward and a prolific goalscorer, Gabbiadini is known for her technical ability and her pace on the ball, and is often deployed as a winger or as a striker.[4]

Personal life

As well as being a footballer, Gabbiadini is a tattoo designer.[21]

Her younger brother Manolo is also a forward, for S.S.C. Napoli, and has represented Italy's male national team.[4]

Honours

Club

AGSM Verona[22]
AGSM Verona[22]
AGSM Verona[22]
  • Supercoppa italiana: 2005, 2007, 2008
Bergamo[22]
  • Serie B: 2001–02

Individual

References

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