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Alessandro Bastoni Cavaliere OMRI (born 13 April 1999) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Serie A club Inter Milan and the Italy national team. Considered one of the best centre-backs in the world, he is known for his well-timed tackles and ball playing ability. [2] [3]
Tomás Agustín "Toto" Avilés Mancilla (born 3 August 2004) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Major League Soccer club Inter Miami. A former youth international for Chile, he plays for the Argentina U20s.
Francesco Acerbi Cavaliere OMRI (Italian pronunciation: [franˈtʃesko aˈtʃɛrbi]; born 10 February 1988) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Serie A club Inter Milan and the Italy national team.
Carlos Augusto Zopolato Neves (born 7 January 1999), known as Carlos Augusto, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a left-back or left wing-back for Serie A club Inter Milan, and the Brazil national team. He is also capable of playing as a centre-back, and has been praised for his defensive abilities and his crossing.
Benjamin Jacques Marcel Pavard (French pronunciation: [bɛ̃ʒamɛ̃ ʒak maʁsɛl pavaʁ]; born 28 March 1996) is a French professional footballer who plays as a defender for Serie A club Inter Milan and the France national team. Although usually deployed as a centre-back, he is also capable of playing as a right-back.
Centre-backs are often tall and positioned for their ability to win duels in the air. In the modern game, most teams employ two or three centre-backs in front of the goalkeeper. The 4–2–3–1, 4–3–3, and 4–4–2 formations all use two centre-backs. The common 4–4–2 formation uses two centre-backs.
Icardi headed a Matias Vecino cross into an empty net, between A.C. Milan centre-backs Alessio Romagnoli and Mateo Musacchio into an empty net goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma had abandoned to catch the cross. This was after both teams had goals disallowed in the first half, but ended a highly defensive second half.
Born in Bracciano, in the Province of Rome, Lazio region, Faraoni started his career at Rome-based club S.S. Lazio, for which he could play right or centre-back. [1] [2] He missed a few months in the 2009–10 season due to a right leg anterior cruciate ligament injury. [3] Faraoni had played for Lazio's Giovanissimi regionali team [4] to ...