Nicolo Zaniolo's Life and Career Journey in Football "He can still be developed again by himself And Successor Francesco Totti"

Nicolo Zaniolo was born on July 2, 1999. Zaniolo is the first child of the couple Igor Zaniolo and Francesca Costa. The Zaniolo family comes from the Italian ethnic Liguira, which borders the coast of northern Italy, the name of the capital being Genoa.

Zaniolo comes from a middle class family, he was also born into a football family because his father, Igor is a former Italian striker. Igor played at the Spice Soccer club in 1999 at the birth of his son, he was instrumental in helping the club promote from the C2 series to the C1 series.

Having parents who love football, it's only natural that the game was transmitted to Zaniolo when he was a child. Zaniolo is often guided by his father when he starts to move his feet to touch the round skin. At the age of 9 Zaniolo joined the Genoa academy.

It didn't take long for Zaniolo to be there, because of his love for football and to develop his talent, making Zaniolo enroll in the Florentina academy in 2010.

Zaniolo thrives on the Florentina youth team. He was able to show brilliant performance in all age groups. Diflorentina Zaniolo became the player with the best soccer skills among his friends.

Despite being the best player in the youth team, but there is one problem he faces, namely the problem of growth. At that time there was no clear evidence whether Zaniolo was diagnosed with hormonal disorders. But the fact is, Zaniolo does have a short body, it is considered due to the problem of hormone growth.

Related to the problem of its growth, finally making Zaniolo must be willing to leave the Florentina academy in 2016, Florentina is worried that if maintaining Zaniolo, it will affect his team in the future.

Zaniolo spent about six years at the Florentina academy. Although a little disappointing in the end, the academy has helped develop its potential.

After Florentina's release, Zaniolo then joined the B series club, Virtus Entella. A club that helps improve his career. Zaniolo's appearance at the club was very promising. Thanks to good performance, Virtus Entella ignored Zaniolo's small body size.

Zaniolo developed during a season at Virtus Entella, goal after goal he managed to create, there Zaniolo became a very important asset. Zaniolo also experienced growth in the condition of his body. His short stature was getting higher and higher.

Zaniolo's neat appearance made him smelled by European clubs including Everton and Inter Milan. Until finally Inter was the one who managed to bring Zaniolo in the summer of 2017 with a transfer fee of 1.8 million euros or Rp 28 billion.

Having had several pre-season games with the first team, Zaniolo was then sent to strengthen the Inter youth team considering he was still 18 years old.

With the Inter youth team, Zaniolo finished the 2017/18 season as the team's top scorer with 13 goals, he also helped the team win the national league title or Campionato Nazionale Primavera.

Despite his neat appearance in the Inter youth team, Zaniolo must feel disappointed because he had never played in a competitive match with the Inter first team, despite the guarantees given by the club. Inter themselves reasoned to be faced with financial fair play regulations so that they only have one option which is to reduce Zaniolo in one of their teams.

In June 2018, Zaniolo was handed over to AS Roma as part of an agreement to bring Radja Nainggolan to Inter. Although disappointed, Zaniolo was able to use this bitterness positively. He became compelled to prove that Florentina and Inter had dumped it wrong.

Zaniolo completed his medical tests on June 25, and signed a five-year contract with the capital's wolves. Then Zaniolo made his first appearance for Roma in the Champions League against Real Madrid on September 19, where his team lost 3-0 at the Santiago Bernabéu.

Meanwhile, at the age of 19 he made his debut in Serie A on September 26, 2018 in a home match against Frosinone, where AS Roma won 4-0. Three months later, Zaniolo scored his first goal in Serie A in a 3-1 win against Sassuolo.

In 2019, in the European Champions League match against FC Porto, Zaniolo became the youngest Italian player to score two goals in one match in this elite competition when he scored both of Rome's goals in a 2-1 win in the last 16.

His first season with AS Roma, Zaniolo performed so brilliantly, notched 6 goals, and 2 assists from 38 matches made him a young player with a bright future. Zaniolo even predicted that he would be the successor to Francesco Totti.

On the international stage, Zaniolo made his debut with the Italy u-19 team, he participated in the European Cup u-19 in 2018, where his team reached the final of the tournament, unfortunately, Italy must recognize the greatness of Portugal with a score of 4-3.

In September 2018, Zaniolo received his first senior call by manager Roberto Mancini for the opening match of the UEFA Nations League against Poland and Portugal. Even so, Zaniolo was not played in these two matches.

One month later, Zaniolo made his debut with the Italy Under-21 team, in a friendly match against Belgium. His debut with the Senior national team finally arrived on March 23, 2019, when he entered as a substitute for Marco Verratti in a 2-0 home win over Finland in the 2020 European Cup qualifiers.

In his playing style, this quiet man is comfortable in various positions on the front lines, from the playmaker to the left wing or even as a false nine.

His speed and creativity are also Zaniolo's mainstay, where H. Besides the towering posture of 190 cm can be another advantage when the air duel.