Ciro Immobile

At 34 years old, Ciro Immobile has this physical status:

Ciro Immobile (born 20 February 1990) is an Italian professional footballer who plays for Lazio and the Italy national team as a striker. He began his work at Sorrento.

He was purchased by Juventus in 2009 and then loaned out to three clubs before moving to Genoa in 2012.

He migrated to Torino, Juventus's closest competitor after a season with the club.

He received the Capocannoniere award in Serie A, winning 22 goals in 33 games at Torino.

He was sold to German club Borussia Dortmund for about €18 million before heading to Sevilla in 2015.

In 2016, he returned to Torino on loan and was then sold to Lazio in July of that year.

He won the Capocannoniere for the second time in his second season at Lazio, with 29 goals in 33 games. Immobile made his Italian national team debut in 2014 and was selected in the team for the 2014 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2016.

Personal life

Immobile welcomed Jessica Melena, a long-time girlfriend, in June 2013. Immobile and Melena were married in May 2014.

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Club career

Immobile, born in Torre Annunziata, in Naples, Italy, began his youth in the football school "Torre Annunziata 88," before moving to "Maria Rosa" and then Salernitana's youth team, where he failed to emerge. He later joined Sorrento, who scored 30 goals in the under-17 season, including a brace against Torino, assuaging Juventus observers.

He was signed by Juventus at the age of 18 for €80,000, according to Ciro Ferrara's suggestion. He went on to compete with the Primavera team.

Immobile joined the Primavera squad in 2009, where he established a striking alliance with Ayub Daud that culminated in the squad's triumph of the 2009 Torneo di Viareggio, where two of whom were in the final.

Immobile made his Serie A debut against Bologna on March 14 in a 4–1 home win over Alessandro Del Piero, Juventus' captain, in the 90th minute. Immobile made his European debut in 2009, again as a second-half substitute for Del Piero in a Champions League match against Bordeaux on November 25th. In the 2010 Torneo di Viareggio final, he scored a hat-trick against Empoli in February 2010 to win the title for the second time in a row.

Immobile and teammate Luca Marrone were sent on loan to recently promoted Serie B team A.C. Siena on July 1, 2010. Juventus purchased Niccol Griannetti, Leonardo Spinazzola, and Austrian midfielder Marcel Büchel on loan from the Tuscan club in exchange for the two loans. Immobile never broke into the first team, but he left Siena in January 2011 after only 4 appearances and one goal. Following his release from Siena, he was immediately loaned by Juventus to Grosseto, another Serie B club for the remainder of the 2010–11 season.

Immobile will join Pescara, Italy's top-season loan from Juventus, on August 17, 2011. On August 26, he scored his first goal for the club on his debut for Pescara in the first league match against Hellas Verona. Immobile had already scored 14 goals in the 2011-2012 Serie B andata (first half of the season) by the end of the season's first half. Following his mercurial form in Serie B, Genoa reported on Monday that they paid €4 million for half of the player's rights from Juventus. He spent his season with Pescara in the Italian second division as the team secured promotion to Serie A. He continued to score for a total of 28 goals, seven more than the second-best scorer, Juve Stabia's Marco Sau. At the 2012 AIC Gran Gala del Calcio, Immobile was also named Player of the Year, alongside colleagues Lorenzo Insigne and Marco Verratti.

After the loan with Pescara came to an end, Immobile became a Genoa player on July 1, 2012. Immobile and Boakye's co-ownership contracts were renewed by Genoa and Juventus on June 19, 2013.

Juventus bought Immobile's half of Genoa for €2.75 million on July 12, 2013. He was sold to Torino, the city's rivals, on the same day under a new co-ownership agreement worth €2.75 million.

He made his Torino debut against former club Pescara in the first round of the Coppa Italia, scoring his first goal of the season. In his Serie A debut for the club, he assisted in the draw against Sampdoria, but did not score until October 7th. Immobile had not scored in Serie A since December 2012. The goal capped off Immobile's form in the next 15 games, including his first brace in Serie A in December against Chievo Verona.

Immobile defeated Livorno 3-1 on March 22, 2014, scoring his first Serie A hat-trick. He scored a spectacular volley against Roma three days later, taking the Granata level to the Stadio Olimpico for a short time. He scored the winning goal against Catania in a 2–1 victory on April 6th.

Genoa was leading 1–0 when Immobile and Alessio Cerci scored in stoppage time on Thursday to give Torino a 2–1 victory. In the following round, he scored again in a 3–3 draw away from Lazio. Immobile won by 2–0 over Udinese on April 27th for his sixth match in a row. In the season, he scored 21 goals, matching the seasonal goal records of Paolo Pulici and Francesco Graziani at Torino.

Immobile scored in the penultimate game of the season against Parma on May 11, but the second half of the match against Fiorentina was postponed. He finished his season with 22 goals in 33 appearances, as well as one goal in the Coppa Italia. He became the first Torino player to win the Capocannoniere since Francesco Graziani in 1976–77.

Despite the fact that the co-ownership agreement between Torino and Juventus still hasn't been reached, Dortmund's Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund announced the signing of Immobile on June 2nd. On May 10, 2014, Urbano Cairo, Torino's president, accused Juventus and Dortmund of breaching FIFA rule regarding transfers, which also states that such transfers must have joint consent of the co-owners. Egypt also wanted to keep Immobile for at least a season for sports and profit. Juventus sold the remaining 50% registration rights of Immobile to Torino for €8.035 million on June 18, 2014. Torino later revealed in its financial statements that the transfer fee to the German side was €17.955 million. Immobile made his official debut for Dortmund as a striker in the 2014 DFL-Supercup against Bayern Munich on August 13th. By the score of 2–0, Borussia lifted the cup.

Immobile made his Bundesliga debut on August 23rd in the first match of Dortmund's 2014–15 Bundesliga campaign, losing 2–0 at home to Bayer Leverkusen. Immobile scored his first goal for the club on September 16, 2014, beating Arsenal 2–0 in the Champions League group stages. In a 3–0 away victory over Anderlecht in a 4–1 home win over Galataray and a 1–1 home draw versus Anderlecht, he scored four goals in six Champions League matches, with Borussia qualifying as first from the group. Immobile assisted with the first goal and scored the second on a 2–2 home draw with Wolfsburg on December 17, 2014.

Immobile joined Sevilla on a season-long loan after scoring just three goals in the league in his first season at Borussia Dortmund, totaling 10 goals in 34 matches in all competitions. Sevilla also had the opportunity to sign him outright. On August 11, 2015, he made his debut for the club by coming off the bench to replace Kevin Gameiro in the 80th minute of the 2015 UEFA Super Cup final against Barcelona and assisting Yevhen Konoplyanka's temporary equalizer to bring the game into extra time; Barcelona won the match 5–4.

After playing just five minutes in a friendly against Watford at Vicarage Road on July 31, 2015, Immobile was stretchered off the field wearing an oxygen mask and a neck brace. He was admitted to the hospital for examinations and was in good spirits. Later, it was determined that his nasal septum had ruptured, which seemed to be a significant injury, but that it was not really minor. In a 3–2 La Liga home win over Real Madrid on Friday, Immobile scored his first goal for Sevilla in the 36th minute. When Immobile made his fifth appearance in November, the obligation to buy clause was invoked, instead of paying him outright for €11 million more than the loan spell.

Immobile returned to Torino on loan until the end of the 2015–16 season on January 14, 2016. He scored the first goal of a 4–2 home victory over Frosinone two days later on his return to form. In a 3–1 victory over Palermo on February 14, he scored a brace. He sustained a muscular injury at the halftime mark in a derby with Juventus two days before, and will be out for a month.

Immobile agreed with Lazio on a €8.75 million (plus €700,000 commission to agents) on July 27th, 2016. Immobile scored on his debut in Lazio's first match, a 4–3 away victory over Atalanta, on August 21. Immobile finished the season with 23 league goals in 36 appearances plus three goals in the Coppa Italia, defeating his total when he won the Capocannoniere with Torino in 2013, but losing it to Bosnian striker Edin Deko of cross-town rivals Roma, who scored 29 goals in the 2013-2014 season.

Immobile scored the first two goals of the Supercoppa Italiana on August 13, 2017; Lazio won with a 3–2 victory over Juventus. In a 4–1 home win over Milan on September 10, he scored a hat-trick and got an assist. Immobile was granted until 2022 by October 21th on October 21. Immobile scored four goals in the first half against SPAL on January 6, 2018, the first Lazio player to score multiple hat-tricks in a season in 16 years; Lazio defeated the match 5–2. Immobile won by 5–1 over Steaua București in the Europa League round of 32 second leg home to Immobile, which allowed Lazio to qualify, 5–2 on aggregate, to the round of 16. Immobile scored twice in Lazio's 6–2 home victory over Benevento, his 36th goal of the season, and tied Giorgio Chinaglia's record for most goals scored by a single player in a single season by two goals on March 31, 2018. Immobile won the Capocannoniere jointly with Inter's Mauro Icardi, scoring 29 goals in 33 appearances for the season.

In a 2–1 away victory over Milan on November 3, he scored his 100th goal for Lazio. Immobile defeated Hellas Verona 5–1 on July 26, 2020, with a hat-trick. Immobile ended the season with 36 goals, including winning the Capocannoniere and equaling Gino Rossetti and Gonzalo Higua's all-time record for most goals in a Serie A season. For the first time in his career, he earned the European Golden Shoe, becoming the first Italian player or player from Serie A to win the award since Francesco Totti in 2007. In addition, he set a new record for most penalties scored in a single Serie A season with 14.

Immobile announced that a five-year contract extension with Lazio on August 31, 2020. In the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League, he scored a goal in a 3–1 victory over Borussia Dortmund in the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League, on October 20, 2020. Immobile scored the only goal of a 1–0 home win over Parma in Serie A on May 12, 2021; this was his 150th goal for Lazio in all competitions.

In a 2–1 win victory over Atalanta on October 30, the Italian striker scored his 159th career goal for the Biancocelesti, ties with Silvio Piola's all-time club goals record. Immobile scored against Marseille in the UEFA Europa League on November 4th, becoming Lazio's all-time top goalscorer after defeating Silvio Piola with 160 points. With this goal, the Italian striker became the club's all-time top scorer in the Europa League (11); he defeated former striker Pierluigi Casiraghi, who had scored ten times in the Lazio tournament. Immobile became the first Lazio player to score 10+ goals in six consecutive Serie A seasons on November 7, 2021 against Salernitana (3-0 win). Immobile made the league's first appearance in Serie A on January 6, 2022 against Empoli (3-3 draw). Immobile made his 200th appearance for Lazio in Serie A on March 5, 2022 against Cagliari (3-0 victory). In addition,, he tied Silvio Piola's goal record with Lazio (143), becoming the third player to score 20 or more Serie A goals in six separate seasons. Immobile scored his 180th Serie A goal on April 1622 against Torino (1-1 draw), putting Fabio Quagliarella of Sampdoria at 13th on the league's all-time top scorers list at 13th place. In addition, he became the first Italian player to score at least 25 goals in three separate league campaigns and surpassed 30+ goals in all competitions for the third time in his career. Immobile scored more than 2022 against Milan on April 24th, defeating him at 2-1 loss. Immobile became Europe's fourth top-five leagues player to score more than 25 goals in a single season since the 2016–17 season, with Robert Lewandowski, Lionel Messi, and Cristiano Ronaldo.

International career

Cesare Prandelli, the first call-up to the senior national team, was announced on March 2nd, 2014, three days later, for a friendly match against Spain. As Spain defeated Alessio Cerci by 69 minutes, he made his debut as a replacement for Alessio Cerci after 69 minutes.

Immobile was selected in Italy's provisional 30-man squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup on May 13th, 2014, and the final 23-man squad was announced on June 1st. In Italy's final World Cup warm-up match, he scored a hat-trick on June 8th, a 5–3 victory over Brazilian club side Fluminense. Immobile made his competitive debut in Italy's opening 2–1 win over England in Manaus on June 14th, playing the last 17 minutes in place of Mario Balotelli, the Italian king. In the third minute of a 2–0 friendly victory over the Netherlands on September 4, he scored his first international goal.

Immobile was named in Antonio Conte's 23-man Italy squad for UEFA Euro 2016.

By manager Roberto Mancini, he was included in Italy's squad for UEFA Euro 2020 in June 2021. In a 3–0 victory over Turkey in the first match of the tournament, he scored Italy's second goal and assisted Insigne for his team's final goal. In a 3–0 victory over Switzerland, he scored Italy's third goal in the following group match on June 16th. He scored in the second half by Federico Chiesa, a 1–1 draw, before being replaced by Domenico Berardi; Italy advanced to the final of the tournament on Sunday after losing by 4–2 penalty shoot-out victory. Following a 3–2 draw in extra-time, Immobile gained the European Championship with Italy on July 11th, after a 1–1 draw in extra time; Immobile was restarted by Berardi during the second half of regulation time. Immobile gained notoriety after the game as a result of his juggling, and his pants fell down, revealing his underpants.

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