Andrea Cambiaso (born 20 February 2000) is an Italian professional

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who plays as a full-back or wing-back for

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club

Juventus Juventus Football Club (from la, iuventūs, 'youth'; ), colloquially known as Juve (), is a professional Association football, football club based in Turin, Piedmont, Italy, that competes in the Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football leagu ...

and the Italy national team.

Club career

Genoa

Cambiaso is a product of Genoa youth teams. He spent 2017–18 and 2018–19 seasons on loan to

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clubs

Albissola Albissola Marina ( lij, A Moenn-a d'Arbisseua) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Savona in the Italian region Liguria, located about west of Genoa and about northeast of Savona. History Albissola Marina was a settlement of the I ...

and

Savona Savona (; lij, Sann-a ) is a seaport and ''comune'' in the west part of the northern Italy, Italian region of Liguria, capital of the Province of Savona, in the Riviera di Ponente on the Mediterranean Sea. Savona used to be one of the chie ...

respectively. He helped Albissola achieve promotion to

Serie C The Serie C () is the third-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie B and Serie A. The Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico (Lega Pro) is the governing body that runs the Serie C. The unification of the Lega Pro ...

. Cambiaso returned to Genoa for the 2021–22 season, scoring his first goal in

on 29 August 2021 in a 2–1 home defeat against

Napoli Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

Loan moves to Alessandria and Empoli

On 2 August 2019, Cambiaso joined

club

Alessandria Alessandria (; pms, Lissandria ) is a city and ''comune'' in Piedmont, Italy, and the capital of the Province of Alessandria. The city is sited on the alluvial plain between the Tanaro and the Bormida rivers, about east of Turin. Alessandria ...

on loan. He made his professional Serie C debut for Alessandria on 25 August 2019 in the opening game against Gozzano, starting the game and playing the whole match. Cambiaso suffered an ACL tear on 4 December 2019 in a match against

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(which was his 17th start for the club), the injury would keep him unable to play for the rest of the 2019–20 season. On 21 September 2020, he joined

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club

Empoli Empoli () is a town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Florence, Tuscany, Italy, about southwest of Florence, to the south of the Arno in a plain formed by the river. The plain has been usable for agriculture since Roman times. The comm ...

on loan with an option to purchase.

Juventus

On 14 July 2022,

announced the signing of Cambiaso on a five-year contract.

Loan to Bologna

On 15 July 2022, Cambiaso joined

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

on a season-long loan.

Return to Juventus

On 28 October 2023, he scored his first goal for Juventus in the sixth minute of stoppage time in a 1–0 victory over

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. On 24 May 2024, he extended his contract with the club until 2029.

International career

Cambiaso was called up to the senior

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squad for

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matches against

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and

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, respectively on 17 and 20 November 2023. On 21 March 2024, Cambiaso debuted for the Italian senior squad in

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against

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Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

Juventus *

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: 2023–24

References

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