Biography

Giorgio Chiellini

by Anjana Sharma,

An Italian footballer, Giorgio Chiellini was born on 14 August in 1984 in Pisa and grips a nationality of Italy. He currently plays for  Serie A club Juventus and the Italian national team. Giorgio Chiellini is 29 years old. He went to a Liceo high school. He shows his interests in sports, video games, music, movies, and books. He did his graduation from Enriques Senior High School in Livorno with full marks, and then he had chosen the Faculty of Business and Economics in Turin. He had thought of continuing with his studies but as he had begun to play football professionally so he could not pursue his studies.

He picked a degree course that restricted him to attend all the lectures so he had to move from there as well. At the beginning of his career, Chiellini played for A.S. Livorno Calcio youth team in different leagues of the Italian Championship. Back then Giorgio was used basically as a wing-back. He began his career as a left-back but eventually was successful in discovering his name as a steady, hard-tackling player. He is the vice-captain, behind Gianluigi Buffon. His family consists of his mother, Lucia Chiellini, and his father, Fabio Chiellini and his siblings, twin brother Claudio and Giulio and Silvia, his sister. His Current Team is Juventus.       

At the age of six, he started playing football in Livorno 9 F.C.During his childhood he was interested in playing basketball and a great follower of the Kobe Bryant’s Lakers. When he was 13 he moved to Livorno F.C., where he had started playing as a left midfielder, then as a full-back. After Livorno F.C. was promoted in the Italian Football first division he again shifted to Juventus F.C., Fiorentina F.C.He  pa s sed with  the first division (A) championship winners to the second division (B) tournament, and then placed himself at the top division, struggled to win both the Italian Football Championship and the Champions League.

In the summer of  2005 when he was 21 years old, he went back to Juventus FC which and the coach was  Fabio Capello at that time. When he was 23 that is during 2007/2008, he played as a left back for a while and was moved permanently to central defense. The season of 2008/2009 opened with the   Champions League, August 13, 2008, where he scored his first "European" goal against Artmedia Bratislava. He focused on winning a major trophy wearing Jersey No.3.He played for other Teams also namely, Florentina, Livorno, Nazionale (Italy National Football Team), PALMARES(Titoli Conquista nei Club).

Giorgio Chiellini is a defender and has a height of 1.87 m with a weight of 168 pounds i.e. 78 kg. Carolina Bonistalli is a Partner of Giorgio Chiellini. His salary is calculated as 3 million EUR (2012). His net worth is $15 million with market value 10,00 Mill. €. His highest market value was 28,50 Mill. € in 2012. Giorgio finds Twitter is the best way for him to stay in contact with all his fans. He tries to connect and interact with them via Twitter.

He is seen to be active in twitter. He has made a  donation of 100,000€  to Arista. Reset Group has supported his decision to start a new social project in promoting  Anffas Onlus in Livorno – the National Association of the Families of People who are intellectually and or characterized with relational disabilities.

His honors and achievements for different teams are summed up as Juventus-Serie A (3) : 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14,Serie A Runner-up : 2008–09,Serie B (1) : 2006–07,Coppa Italia Runner-up : 2011–12,Supercoppa Italiana (2) : 2012, 2013 and for Italy  as UEFA European Football Championship: Silver 2012,FIFA Confederations Cup: Bronze 2013,Olympic Games: Bronze 2004. Individually he is presented with ESM Team of the Year: 2012–13, Serie A Defender of the Year (3): 2008, 2009, 2010, Serie A Team of the Year: 2012–13.