Cecilia Salvai
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 2 December 1993 | ||
Place of birth | Pinerolo, Italy | ||
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Juventus | ||
Number | 23 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2008–2009 | Canavese | 4 | (1) |
2009–2012 | Torino | 60 | (4) |
2012–2013 | Lugano | ||
2013–2016 | Verona | 54 | (5) |
2016–2017 | Brescia | 19 | (0) |
2017– | Juventus | 37 | (0) |
International career | |||
2010–2012 | Italy U19 | 9 | (1) |
2012 | Italy U20 | 3 | (0) |
2013– | Italy | 26 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15 June 2018 |
Cecilia Salvai (born 2 December 1993)[1] is a Italian footballer who plays as a defender for Serie A club Juventus and the Italy national team. She has represented Italy U19 at the 2011 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship.[2]
Club career
Salvai started her professional career with Canavese in 2008, and after a single season she moved to Torino, where she developed into a regular for the Turinese club. The team's website described her as "without doubt, the player with most appeal in Torino's roster."[3] She plays primarily as a left-back, but she can move to become a centre-back when needed.
Before the start of the 2012–13 season, she moved to Swiss club Rapid Lugano, and left at the end of the season to return to Italy, as she signed with Veronese club Bardolino Verona.[4] On 11 July 2016, ahead of the 2016–17 season, she joined ACF Brescia Femminile.[5]
International career
Under-19
During the 2011 Championship Salvai was named on the starting XI of the opening group stage match against Russia.[6] She did no play in the second group stage match against Switzerland,[7] but she scored the equalizer against Belgium in an eventual 3–1 win for the azzurre.[8] Italy reached the semi-finals unbeaten, but eventually lost 2–3 to Norway.[9]
She was also called for the first qualifying round for the 2012 Championship, and she started all three matches[10][11][12] as Italy advanced to the second qualifying round, where, again, she was a regular and started all three matches.[13][14][15] Italy, however, finished second in its group and last amongst the runners-up, and therefore did not advance to the final tournament.
Under-20
Salvai was called by Italy's U-20 coach Corrado Corradini to take part in the 2012 World Cup, where she was a starter in all three group stage matches. As Italy finished last in Group B, they did not play any other match.
Senior
Salvai made her début for the senior team on 19 September 2012, as Italy faced Greece in the final qualification match before UEFA Women's Euro 2013.[16] She started the first two group stage matches against Finland and Denmark but did not play against Sweden, as Italy advanced to the quarter-finals.
Controversy
On 5 August 2021, an image of Salvai, appearing to make a racist gesture against Asian people while wearing a training cone on her head to seemingly mimic an Asian conical hat, went viral after it was tweeted from the Juventus women's official team account.[17] The tweet immediately received a strong negative reaction and was deleted with the club issuing an apology within half an hour of the original post stating, it was "not meant to cause controversy or have any racial undertones."[18]
International goals
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | 24 February 2021 | Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence, Italy | Israel | 6–0 | 12–0 | UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying |
Honours
Individual
- AIC Best Women's XI: 2019[19]
Club
References
- ^ Profile on football.it in Football.it
- ^ uefa.com. "Women's Under-19 2011 - Belgium-Italy – UEFA.com". www.uefa.com.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-07-17. Retrieved 2013-07-17.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Nuovi arrivi: Cecilia Salvai – AGSM Verona". www.veronacalciofemminile.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2013-07-17.
- ^ "Salvai è del Brescia". ACF Brescia Femminile (in Italian). 11 July 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-09-19. Retrieved 2016-11-15.
- ^ uefa.com. "Women's Under-19 2011 - Italy-Russia – UEFA.com". www.uefa.com.
- ^ uefa.com. "Women's Under-19 2011 - Italy-Switzerland – UEFA.com". www.uefa.com.
- ^ uefa.com. "Women's Under-19 2011 - Belgium-Italy – UEFA.com". www.uefa.com.
- ^ uefa.com. "Women's Under-19 2011 - Italy-Norway – UEFA.com". www.uefa.com.
- ^ http://www.uefa.com/womensunder19/season=2012/matches/round=2000219/match=2003522/index.html
- ^ http://www.uefa.com/womensunder19/season=2012/matches/round=2000219/match=2003544/index.html
- ^ http://www.uefa.com/womensunder19/season=2012/matches/round=2000219/match=2003565/index.html
- ^ http://www.uefa.com/womensunder19/season=2012/matches/round=2000220/match=2009045/index.html
- ^ http://www.uefa.com/womensunder19/season=2012/matches/round=2000220/match=2009058/index.html
- ^ http://www.uefa.com/womensunder19/season=2012/matches/round=2000220/match=2009070/index.html
- ^ uefa.com. "UEFA Women's EURO 2013 - History - Greece-Italy Lineups – UEFA.com". Uefa.com.
- ^ Haroun, Azmi. "An Italian women's soccer team posted an image of one of its players making a racist gesture against Asian people". Insider.
- ^ "Juventus 'sincerely apologise' for tweet". BBC Sport. As of August 7, 2021, Salvai had yet to apologize or comment on the incident publicly.
- ^ "Gran Gala del Calcio 2019 winners". Football Italia. 2 December 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
External links
- Cecilia Salvai – UEFA competition record (archive)
- Cecilia Salvai at Soccerway
- 1993 births
- Living people
- Italian women's footballers
- Italy women's international footballers
- Italian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
- Expatriate women's footballers in Switzerland
- Serie A (women's football) players
- A.S.D. AGSM Verona F.C. players
- A.C.F. Brescia Calcio Femminile players
- People from Pinerolo
- Women's association football defenders
- Juventus F.C. (women) players