![]() Castrovilli in 2021 | |||||||||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Gaetano Castrovilli [1] | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 17 February 1997 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Canosa di Puglia, Italy | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Monza (on loan from Lazio) | ||||||||||||||||
Number | 11 | ||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
2006–2008 | Minervino | ||||||||||||||||
2008–2015 | Bari | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
2015–2017 | Bari | 11 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2017–2024 | Fiorentina | 111 | (12) | ||||||||||||||
2017–2019 | → Cremonese (loan) | 52 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
2024– | Lazio | 9 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2025– | → Monza (loan) | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
2017–2018 | Italy U20 | 6 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
2018 | Italy U21 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2019–2021 | Italy | 4 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16:00, 01 February 2025 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22:22, 8 September 2021 (UTC) |
Gaetano Castrovilli Cavaliere OMRI (born 17 February 1997) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as midfielder for Serie A club Monza, on loan from Lazio.
Castrovilli initially started playing football with the Minervino football school. At the age of 11, he joined the Bari youth system. He went on to make his debut for the first team in Serie B in 2015, and later broke into the starting line-up under manager Roberto Stellone during the 2016–17 season, making 11 appearances for the club in total. [2] [3]
His performances caught the attention of Fiorentina, and he was later sent on loan to join the Florentine youth side in order to take part in the Torneo di Viareggio in 2016, during which he scored a goal in a 1–1 draw against Argentine side Belgrano; the senior side eventually acquired him from Bari on a permanent basis that year for €400,000. After six months with the primavera side, in 2017 he was then sent on loan to Cremonese in Serie B for two seasons in 2017, where he made 53 appearances in total, scoring 5 goals. [2] [3] [4]
In 2019, he returned to Fiorentina, and was included in Vincenzo Montella's first team plans; he went on to make his Serie A debut against Napoli later that year. [2] [3]
In July 2024, Castrovilli joined Lazio on a free transfer. [5] On 31 January 2025, he was loaned to Monza for the remainder of the 2024–25 season. [6]
Castrovilli made his senior debut for Italy under manager Roberto Mancini, on 15 November 2019, coming on as a late substitute for Lorenzo Insigne in a 3–0 away win over Bosnia and Herzegovina, in a Euro 2020 qualifier. [7]
Following an injury to Lorenzo Pellegrini, Castrovilli was called-up in June 2021 by Mancini for Italy's UEFA Euro 2020 squad. [8] He made his first and only appearance of the tournament in Italy's final group match, a 1–0 victory against Wales in Rome on 20 June, coming on as a late second-half substitute for Matteo Pessina; the result allowed them to top their group. [9] On 11 July, Castrovilli won the European Championship with Italy following a 3–2 penalty shoot-out victory over England at Wembley Stadium in the final, after a 1–1 draw in extra-time. [10]
Castrovilli is a talented and versatile offensive–minded midfielder, with an eye for goal, who is capable of playing as an attacking midfielder or as an offensive–minded central midfielder, known as the mezzala role in Italian football jargon; he has also been deployed as a left winger, a position which allows him to cut onto his stronger right foot and shoot on goal. A fast, elegant, and dynamic player, despite not having a particularly low centre of gravity, he is capable of changing direction quickly, and is also known for his technique, dribbling skills, and use of feints, as well as his ability to exploit spaces and create a numerical advantage for his team when attacking with his late runs from deep. Due to his vision and intelligence, he is often involved in the build-up of attacking plays, although he is also known for his defensive work-rate, tackling, and ability to cover ground. [2] [3] [11]
In 2022, Castrovilli married Italian model Rachele Risaliti, with whom he had his first child in February 2024. [12]
Club | Season | League | Coppa Italia | Europe | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Bari | 2014–15 | Serie B | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | |||
2016–17 | Serie B | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 11 | 0 | |||
Total | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | ||
Cremonese (loan) | 2017–18 | Serie B | 26 | 1 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 28 | 1 | ||
2018–19 | Serie B | 26 | 4 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 27 | 5 | |||
Total | 52 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 6 | ||
Fiorentina | 2019–20 | Serie A | 33 | 3 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 35 | 3 | ||
2020–21 | Serie A | 34 | 5 | 3 | 0 | – | – | 37 | 5 | |||
2021–22 | Serie A | 23 | 1 | 4 | 0 | – | – | 27 | 1 | |||
2022–23 | Serie A | 15 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 7 [a] | 2 | – | 26 | 4 | ||
2023–24 | Serie A | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 6 | 1 | ||
Total | 111 | 12 | 13 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 131 | 14 | ||
Lazio | 2024–25 | Serie A | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 10 | 0 | |
Monza (loan) | 2024–25 | Serie A | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | |||
Career total | 184 | 17 | 18 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 209 | 20 |
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Italy | 2019 | 1 | 0 |
2020 | 0 | 0 | |
2021 | 3 | 0 | |
Total | 4 | 0 |
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