italian affiliation football player
Pietro Pellegri ( italian pronunciation : [ ˈpjɛːtro pelˈleːɡri ] ; born 17 March 2001 ) is an italian professional football player who plays as a striker for Serie A club AC Milan, on loanword from Monaco. He represents the Italy national team. In 2016, at the age of 15 years and 280 days, Pellegri joined Amedeo Amadei as the joint-youngest player to appear in Serie A. It was surpassed by Wisdom Amey in May 2021 at the age of 15 years and 274 days. [ 3 ]

Club career [edit ]

genoa [edit ]

Born in Genoa, Pellegri is a youth product of the Genoa youth academy. On 22 December 2016, he made his debut with the senior team in Serie A in a 1–0 away loss against Torino, coming on as an 88th-minute substitute for Tomás Rincón. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] At the age of 15 years and 280 days, he equalled the criminal record as the youngest ever Serie A debutant, held by Roma ‘s Amedeo Amadei since 1937 ( Wisdom Amey would belated surpass this record on his debut for Bologna in 2021 ). [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In doing so he besides became the beginning actor born in the twenty-first century to appear in Serie A, and the second musician born in the 2000s to make his italian top-flight debut after Moise Kean. [ 6 ] On 28 May, he scored his first Serie A goal in a 3–2 away loss against Roma, becoming the first player born in the twenty-first hundred to ever score in Serie A, [ 7 ] and the third youngest goalscorer ever in the italian top flight, after Amadei and Gianni Rivera. [ 3 ] On 17 September 2017, he became the first base 16-year-old to score doubly in a single major european league game in a 3–2 base loss to Lazio ; [ 8 ] [ 9 ] his brace besides made him the youngest player ever in Serie A to have managed to do so. [ 10 ]

monaco [edit ]

On 27 January 2018, Pellegri signed with Monaco for a report fee of €25 million, [ 11 ] the second largest transfer fee for a 16-year-old. [ 12 ] He made his Monaco debut on 16 February in a 4–0 home succeed against Dijon in Ligue 1, coming on for the final four minutes in place of Keita Baldé. At 16 years, 10 months and 30 days, he became the youngest league actor in the club ‘s history, breaking Kylian Mbappé ‘s record by football team days and receiving congratulations from the french forward. [ 13 ] On 26 August, he scored his first finish for Monaco to equalise in a 2–1 loss at Bordeaux. [ 14 ] As a solution, he became the beginning musician born in the twenty-first century to score in France ‘s circus tent division. [ 15 ]

loan to AC Milan

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On 25 August 2021, AC Milan announced the sign language of Pellegri from Monaco on a irregular loanword basis, with the choice to make the consider permanent wave, which becomes an obligation if certain conditions are met. [ 16 ]

International career [edit ]

With the Italy under-17 team, Pellegri took part at the 2017 UEFA european Under-17 Championship, scoring once. He was given his first senior external call-up for Italy in September 2018, by coach Roberto Mancini, for Italy ‘s opening UEFA Nations League matches against Poland and Portugal belated that calendar month. [ 17 ] He missed the matches through a minor injury. [ 12 ] Pellegri made his elder introduction for Italy on 11 November 2020, aged 19, featuring as a substitute in a friendly equal won 4–0 against Estonia in Florence. [ 18 ]

personal life [edit ]

Pellegri is the son of Genoa assistant coach and team administrator Marco Pellegri. He said that his idol and main influence is Zlatan Ibrahimović, whom he hailed as the best hitter in the universe. [ 3 ] [ 12 ]

career statistics [edit ]

club [edit ]

As of match played 4 December 2021[19]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup[nb 1] League Cup[nb 2] Europe Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Genoa 2016–17 Serie A 3 1 0 0 — — — 3 1
2017–18 6 2 1 0 — — — 7 2
Total 9 3 1 0 — — — 10 3
Monaco 2017–18 Ligue 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 — — 3 0
2018–19 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
2019–20 0 0 0 0 0 0 — — 0 0
2020–21 16 1 1 0 — — — 17 1
Total 22 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 23 2
AC Milan 2021–22 Serie A 6 0 0 0 — — — 6 0
Career total 37 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 39 5

International [edit ]

As of match played 11 November 2020[19]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Italy 2020 1 0
Total 1 0

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