Profile Federico Macheda

Personal information

Full name : Federico Macheda
Date of birth : 22 August 1991
Place of birth : Rome, Italy
Height : 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Playing position : Striker
Club information
Current club : Manchester United
Number : 27
Youth career
2006–2007 Lazio
2007–2008 Manchester United
Senior career
2008– Manchester United
National team
2006–2007 Italy U16
2007–2008 Italy U17
2009 Italy U19
2009– Italy U21

Club career

Early career

Macheda originated his football career with Lazio. However, due to Italian football laws preventing under-18s from signing businessman contracts, he was not permanently tied to the club, and soon afterwards his 16th birthday, he was gestured via Manchester United of England, where laws allow the signing of players ageing 16 and up.Following his family's relocation to England, he officially stringed the club as a trainee on 16 September 2007, and originated a three-year scholarship in the club's Academy.

Manchester United

Macheda went straight into the Manchester United Under-18 side, and scored the merely target of the game on his debut, a 1–0 away win across Barnsley on 15 September 2007. In his first season with the club, he done as the Under-18s' lid scorer with a total of 12 targets in 21 arrivals for the under-18s, and even prepared his debut for the parks on 26 February 2008, as shortly as he came on as a 68th-minute substitute for Gerard Piqué in a 2–0 away defeat to Liverpool. On 12 May 2008, Macheda earned a Manchester Senior Cup winners' medal as shortly as he was dubbed as an unused substitute for the 2–0 win across Bolton Wanderers in the final.
Macheda gestured his first businessman contract with Manchester United on his 17th birthday in August 2008. In the 2008–09 season, he lasted in the under-18 side, whereas also earning a minority arrivals for the reserves. Towards the end of the season, Macheda relished an prolonged run in the park team, scoring eight targets in eight sport, encompassing a hat-trick in a 3–3 draw with Newcastle United on thirty March 2009, and he was rewarded via being chosen for the first team for the suit against Aston Villa on 5 April 2009. With United 2–1 down heading into the final third of the game, administrator Alex Ferguson substituted Macheda in for Nani just afterwards the hour mark. After Cristiano Ronaldo equalised for United in the 80th tiny, Macheda won the suit with a turn to skirt his marker chased via a curling exertion from just indoor the punishment field in the third tiny of injury time.


Macheda in movement for the Reserves at Ewen Fields
Macheda was dubbed on the bench for United's following pair sport – first against Porto in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final,[11] and thereafter against Sunderland in the league – earning his second arrival for the club in the latter game. Just 46 seconds afterwards taking to the field in position of Dimitar Berbatov, Macheda had the ball in the rear of the net for the second time in his United career, deflecting a Michael Carrick shot past Craig Gordon in the Sunderland goal. With Alex Ferguson opting to relax his big-name players for the FA Cup semi-final against Everton on 19 April 2009, Macheda was handed his first begin in a Manchester United shirt. However, for the first time in his United career, Macheda malfunctioned to score and was substituted for Dimitar Berbatov at first of extra time. He began his first Premier League game in a 2–0 win across Middlesbrough on two May 2009; he was interested in the build-up to Park Ji-Sung's target, but he malfunctioned to obtain on the scoresheet himself and was substituted ten minutes into the second half. At the end of his first season in the Manchester United first team, Macheda was dubbed as the Jimmy Murphy Academy Player of the Year in recognition of his plays in the under-18s, the parks and the first team.On 13 November 2010 he scores a crucial target for Manchester United against Aston Villa.
Macheda's 2009–10 season originated with arrivals in the third and fourth circles of the League Cup, against Wolverhampton Wanderers and Barnsley respectively.He prepared his Champions League debut against CSKA Moscow on three November, chased via another arrival in the 1–0 defeat to Beşiktaş on 25 November, in which he coerced a save from the goalkeeper in the final minute.He came on as a substitute for Dimitar Berbatov in the League Cup fifth around on 1 December,befo re signing a four-year contract the following day that would tie him to the club until June 2014.
Towards the end of the year, Macheda suffered an injury that retained him out until 21 January, as shortly as he returned for a park suit against Sunderland. However, he picked upward another injury shortly afterwards, meaning that he missed out on the win across Aston Villa in the League Cup Final. He prepared his first Premier League arrival of the season in the 4–0 win across Bolton on 27 March, displacing Ryan Giggs in the 84th minute. With Wayne Rooney suffering ankle ligament harm against Bayern Munich in the Champions League, Macheda was dubbed on the bench for United's top-of-the-table clash at home to Chelsea on three April. With United 1–0 down, Macheda came on for Paul Scholes in the 72nd minute; Chelsea scored a second target in the 79th tiny, ago Macheda scored a consolation target for the home side pair minutes subsequent, however there was a suspicion of handball as he turned the ball into the net.
On 28 July 2010, Macheda scored his first targets of United's pre-season tour of North America as he netted double in the 2010 MLS All-Star Game. The first came afterwards just 21 seconds as he capitalised on a hard upward back-pass and the second came in the 13th tiny with a header from a Nani corner kick. On 13 November 2010, Macheda scored his first target of the season, netting United's first target in a 2–2 away draw against Aston Villa.

International career

Ahead of the 2009 UEFA Under-21 Championship, Macheda was dubbed in Italy's draft 40-man squad, due to be dampened to 23 membership in time for the tournament. However, Macheda missed out and was not dubbed in the final squad.
On 12 August 2009, Macheda prepared his debut for the Italy U-21s in a friendly against Russia. Macheda scored his first targets for the U-21s as he netted both targets in a 2-1 victory across Turkey on 17 November 2010.