Mauro Icardi's Life and Career Journey in Football "His movements, Speed and Accuracy Determine His Team's Victory"

Mauro Emanuel Icardi Rivero was born on February 19, 1993 in Rosario, Province of Santa Fe, Argentina. Icardi was born to Juan Icardi and Analia Rivero. Icardi has two brothers named Guido and Ivana. Icardi was born into an Argentine family who later decided to move to Spain.

In 2001, his family was forced to move to Spain because his father could not find work in Argentina. His family then settled on the Canary Islands. There, his father got a job as a restaurant manager.

As a child, Icardi wasn't really interested in football. Until the father who then pushed Icardi to practice soccer. His father wanted Icardi to become a professional and successful footballer in the field.

Because of the encouragement from his father, Icardi finally joined Sarratea, a children's academy located in northern Argentina.

Then, Icardi continued his career in Spain. He joined Vecindario, Las Palmas. There, Icardi's ability increased sharply. In the period 2002 to 2008, Icardi managed to score more than 500 goals for his junior team.

Because of his spectacular appearance, Icardi was much targeted by big European clubs such as Liverpool, Arsenal, to Real Madrid. However, in 2008 Icardi finally accepted the FC Barcelona proposal. He signed a contract until 2013.

In Barcelona alone, Icardi played for the Under-17 and Under-19 teams. His appearance was no less flashy, he managed to bring Barcelona B to win the title of La Liga.

However, Barcelona did not really see what Icardi actually had. The contract has not yet expired, Icardi had flown to Italy to join Sampdoria, who was then willing to spend 400 thousand euros or around Rp 6.3 billion to make up for the Argentinian's abilities.

Mauro Icardi in uniform with UC Sampdoria on January 11, 2011. At Sampdoria, Icardi successfully performed well with his junior team, scoring 13 goals in just 19 matches.

A year later, Icardi was promoted to the first team to play in Serie A. At that time, his first opponent was AS Roma. He scored his first goal for Sampdoria when his team won against Genoa with a score of 3-1. That historic day happened on November 12, 2012.

His performance also progressed, Icardi success broke the Juventus goal twice in Sampdoria's 2-1 victory over the Old Lady.

However, behind that glorious career, Icardi was banned by controversy. He who was a teammate at the time Maxi Lopez has shocked the world. Icardi is known to have cheated on the wife of Maxi Lopez. Shortly after this surfaced, Lopez officially parted ways with his wife, Wanda Nara.

After the news of the separation of Lopez and his wife were known to many people, Icardi and Wanda officially became husband and wife. Both were married on May 27, 2014 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Icardi does not seem sorry about it, he often displays affection with Wanda in public.

A month after his marriage to Wanda, Icardi signed a contract with Italian giants Inter Milan. He was brought to Inter in June 2014 with a fee of 6.5 million euros or around Rp 102 billion.

Icardi debuted with Inter in the Europa League competition, which at that time Inter managed to crush the Icelandic club, Stjarnan, with a score of 3-0.

In the 2014/15 season with Inter, Icardi continued to show his impressive performances. In fact, on September 14, 2014, he successfully scored his second hat trick in Serie A. The season was so special because Icardi was named the Serie A top scorer with Luca Toni. Both are packing 22 goals.

As if to complete his happiness, Icardi entered the ‘Serie A Team of the Year’ 2014/15 season. He was also offered a four-year contract by Inter Milan.

And in 2015, Icardi successfully established himself as Inter Milan's youngest captain in the past 50 years. At that time Roberto Mancini trusted him to lead his colleagues when competing in the field at the age of 23 years.

Roberto Mancini considers Icardi to be very mature. He has high charisma and professionalism.

Icardi's extraordinary performance with Inter continues. right in November 2015, he made his 100th appearance in Serie A and scored in Inter's 4-0 win against Frosinone Calcio.

The British daily The Guardian ’put Icardi in the 100 best footballers in the world in 2015. Icardi placed 82nd.

April 2016 is again a historic month for Icardi. Aside from scoring his 50th goal in Serie A, Icardi has also made 100 appearances with Inter Milan.

Because of his improved performance, Icardi has officially extended his contract with Inter for the next 5 years. At the same time, Inter enclosed Icardi with a bandrol of 110 million euros. He is paid 4.5 million euros per year or around Rp. 70 Billion plus bonuses to score goals and others.

However, a few moments after extending his contract with Inter, Icardi returned to gain controversy. He has a problem with Inter fans themselves. He wrote a controversial sentence in his autobiography about Inter fans.

Despite the chaotic situation, Icardi finally made peace with Inter fans or commonly called the Curva Nord.

Underwent the 2016/17 season, Icardi continued to appear consistent. He is often the hero of Inter's victories in various matches. He was even compared to first-class strikers such as Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

Because of his neat appearance, Icardi's ranking rose to 49th position as the world's best footballer by The Guardian.

On October 15, 2017, Icardi became Inter's hero when he succeeded in overthrowing AC Milan city brothers with a score of 3-2. Icardi scored all of Inter's winning goals over AC Milan.

Until now, his goalscoring goals often helped Inter win the match. Movement, speed and accuracy owned by Icardi is not infrequently successful in determining the victory for Inter Milan. During defending Inter, Icardi has poured 124 goals in all competitions.

While at the international level, Mauro Icardi strengthened the Argentine national team. He made his debut with the U-20 team in 2012. A year ago on 15 October Icardi made his debut with the senior national team when facing Uruguay in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers. His first goal for the national team he printed in November 2018 on goal.

Despite performing well at club level, Icardi is rarely called by the national team, even ahead of the 2018 World Cup, his name crossed out by Jorge Sampaoli. Icardi has just packed eight appearances and 1 goal for the senior squad.

Now, Icardi's career is still quite long considering his age is still 26 years. This tattooed man can still prove to Argentine coaches that he has a quality equivalent to the other attackers of the tango team. His greatness is also certainly very much needed for his club to festive various titles.