Luca Caldirola, the Benevento captain who had played in the Champions League (but never in Serie A)



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Football knows how to tell stories like Luca Caldirola’s, making his debut in Serie A at age 29 as captain of Benevento – born in Desio on February 1, 1991 – and immediately decisive with an unimaginable double with which Sampdoria rejoins spread through the Letizia network. A crazy comeback for the return to the top flight also for Pippo Inzaghi, now a coach on the Campania bench, which led to the second promotion in its history. A career away from Italy that of Caldirola, who on his resume can boast 80 games in the Bundesliga with Werder Bremen and Darmstadt, 11 in the Eredivisie with a debut at 19 with Vitesse and even 90 in B with Brescia, Cesena and Benevento. But never in A. Until the game against Sampdoria.

AC Milan fan

As a child Caldirola had two great passions: drawing and Milan. Both sections. Because the ball and Inter come into his life. He came to the Nerazzurri at age 8 (but I cried, I didn’t want to go there, he said), rolling all the dice in the Nerazzurri, from Pulcini to Primavera, winning two league titles (Giovanissimi Nazionali in 2006 and Allievi Nazionali in 2008) and Viareggio in 2008 with Primavera, directed by Vincenzo Esposito. It was the captain. His was a very long road, passing through Holland and Germany, recalls the current Prato coach in Serie D. We are talking about a boy of great human depth. Smart and professional. A great person, who has come to enjoy the A. No wonder, I am really very happy. It has extraordinary values, in addition to the average. In his head, a champion continues to underline Esposito. At 15 he can go to Tottenham, but his mother does not want her son to leave Italy so soon. In 2008, Jos Mourinho joined the Nerazzurri bench and Caldirola joined the first team (together with Giulio Donati, now in Monza) and was included in the B list of the 2009-2010 Champions League, which he beat Bayern Munich in Madrid. He goes on loan to the Netherlands, at Vitesse, returns to Inter and stays with the Nerazzurri even when half of his card is given to Cesena in the agreement that Nagatomo brings to Milan. Caldirola has time to make his debut in the Inter shirt on December 7, 2010 in the Champions League game against CSKA Moscow. In January he goes to Brescia and starts a second race, which will no longer lead him to wear the Nerazzurri shirt.

In Germany

So the defender between 2013 and January 2019 goes to the Bundesliga, in Germany, but returns to Italy, in Benevento, thanks to the intuition of the sports director, Pasquale Foggia. And also in B the perfect debut: 1-0 victory in the derby against Salernitana. Win promotion and can finally savor the atmosphere of Serie A. With a debut he will never forget: a double at Sampdoria and Pippo Inzaghi’s first win. I couldn’t ask for anything better, I had never scored a double in my career. it was the perfect start. How to blame him.

September 27, 2020 (change September 27, 2020 | 08:16)

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