Height: 163cm
Weight: 60kg
Born: June 14, 1991
Birthplace: Frattamagiore, Napoli
Age: 20
Position: Trequartista/Seconda Punta/Left Winger
National: U21
A few dream to have the opportunity to have the chance and play as the number 10 of the historic Napoli side who once led the best player in the world, Diego Maradona. Lorenzo's objective is to forfill that dream that all tifosi dream about. The young Napoletan is recognized by many as a small player, but a very technical one. Although for his height, he has great strength to hold off his opponents. He contains dribbling skills, as he loves going one on one with his defenders. He has great vision and posses lots of playmaking skills. Although he's refereed to an attacking midfielder, he can also play as a left winger and as a support striker. Having these attributes, he is compared to the likes of Giovinco, but also Lavezzi because of his pace.
Like any other youth starting off their journeys through the big leagues, Lorenzo began his road playing for an amateur squad called Sant'Arpino in Frattamagiore, 15km from Napoli. Growing up, he transferred to the capital in his province and joined Napoli's Primavera division in 2006. The managers were really impressed with the prospect, noting him a big talent and offered the player a 4 year contract with the current club. When finally reaching the premier youth squad, he scored 15 goals in his debut season. Due to his success and achievements, he signed an extension up until 2011.
Insigne took apart of the famous tournament formally known as Viareggo where many of the best youth play and watched by many big scouts around the world. During the tournament, everyone had keen eye on the kid as he was captain for his squad, playing with the famous number 10 in which Diego Maradona held. It was a number almost impossible to get and to achieve. This meant the club had lots of faith in him which is an important factor to determine how much potential Insigne really has. His performances in the tournament made his name more known to the football word and clubs started following the fellow.
Lorenzo finally achieved his dream playing for the senior side in a pre-season game that ended 0-0 in 2009. On January 26, 2009 his dreams was becoming reality as he step foot on the pitch in replace of German Denis against Livorno. Napoli historically, have never been keen on relying on youth, so it was diffcult for Insigne to get some minutes to gain experience. Examples of Di Natale and Quagliarella being late bloomers in football are prime examples to this issue. Not making any marks to make a name out of himself, they decided to loan him to Serie B side Foggia so he would be able to grow and mature as a professional player.
He did just that when arriving to Foggia led by Zeman before going to Pescara. Zeman put much belief in the player and the results came to success. The statistics don't lie, with his loan at Foggia, he scored 19 goals in 34 games under Zeman in Serie B. In doing so, he was paired up with out hot prospects giving hope for the future of Italy. Having lots of attention of Serie A and Serie B sides, especailly Napoli, however with the new arrival of Vargas hopes for Insgine seem to be slim with going back to Napoli. Currently Napoli gave faith to Zeman and have Insgine loaned out once again to Pescara with other many hot Italian prospects. Just like the year before, Insgine is impressing under Zeman scoring many goals and with the new year, hopefully he will reach that 20 mark. Already making a debut with the U21 Side, he's scored 2 on his first game.
Insigne took apart of the famous tournament formally known as Viareggo where many of the best youth play and watched by many big scouts around the world. During the tournament, everyone had keen eye on the kid as he was captain for his squad, playing with the famous number 10 in which Diego Maradona held. It was a number almost impossible to get and to achieve. This meant the club had lots of faith in him which is an important factor to determine how much potential Insigne really has. His performances in the tournament made his name more known to the football word and clubs started following the fellow.
Lorenzo finally achieved his dream playing for the senior side in a pre-season game that ended 0-0 in 2009. On January 26, 2009 his dreams was becoming reality as he step foot on the pitch in replace of German Denis against Livorno. Napoli historically, have never been keen on relying on youth, so it was diffcult for Insigne to get some minutes to gain experience. Examples of Di Natale and Quagliarella being late bloomers in football are prime examples to this issue. Not making any marks to make a name out of himself, they decided to loan him to Serie B side Foggia so he would be able to grow and mature as a professional player.
He did just that when arriving to Foggia led by Zeman before going to Pescara. Zeman put much belief in the player and the results came to success. The statistics don't lie, with his loan at Foggia, he scored 19 goals in 34 games under Zeman in Serie B. In doing so, he was paired up with out hot prospects giving hope for the future of Italy. Having lots of attention of Serie A and Serie B sides, especailly Napoli, however with the new arrival of Vargas hopes for Insgine seem to be slim with going back to Napoli. Currently Napoli gave faith to Zeman and have Insgine loaned out once again to Pescara with other many hot Italian prospects. Just like the year before, Insgine is impressing under Zeman scoring many goals and with the new year, hopefully he will reach that 20 mark. Already making a debut with the U21 Side, he's scored 2 on his first game.
