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(Top photo: Robbie Jay Barratt – AMA/Getty Images) https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5335789/2024/03/13/casadei-chelsea-leicester/ By Simon Johnson Mar 13, 2024 - THE ATHLETIC Let’s start with a simple game of compare and contrast: 25 appearances versus three, 1,111 minutes as opposed to 17. These stats provide the story of midfielder Cesare Casadei ’s mixed fortunes this season. The young Italian midfielder spent the first half of the campaign playing fairly regularly on loan at Leicester City in the Championship before being recalled by parent club Chelsea in January. He has barely enjoyed a kick for the Premier League side since. Casadei cannot add to his game time until Chelsea host Burnley on March 30 at the earliest. The Italy Under-21 international is ineligible to play in Sunday’s FA Cup quarter-final at home against Leicester having already represented Enzo Maresca’s side in their third-round win over fellow second-tier club Millwall in January (rules dictate you cannot ...

(Top photo: Juan Mabromata/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/4763144/2023/08/10/leicester-premier-league-loan-policy/ By Rob Tanner  - THE ATHLETIC Aug 10, 2023 Leicester City are set to complete the loan signing of Chelsea midfielder Cesare Casadei . The 20-year-old Italy under-21 international will join Enzo Maresca’s squad for the season as Leicester continue their squad rebuild in their bid to return to the Premier League . Casadei, who joined Chelsea from Inter Milan in 2022, will provide more attacking midfield options as Maresca continues his reinvention of Leicester by utilising the loan market. Casadei playing for Chelsea in pre-season last month  (Darren Walsh/Chelsea FC via Getty Images) Leicester have always found the outgoing loan market useful in the development of their young talent. With previous loan managers Dean Hammond and Guy Branston at the helm and now title-winner Robert Huth in the position, it was an important part of the deve...

(Top photo: Marcio Machado/Eurasia Sport Images/Getty Images) By Liam Twomey THE ATHLETIC - Jun 16, 2023 For three weeks, the core of Italy ’s remarkably successful attacking game plan at the recent Under-20 World Cup in Argentina could be accurately summarised as “good things happen when Cesare Casadei touches the ball in the box”. It was particularly cruel, then, that a Casadei touch in his own penalty area proved their undoing in the 86th minute of the final against Uruguay on Sunday. Recovering to block Alan Matturro ’s goal-bound shot following a corner scramble, the Chelsea prospect inadvertently sent the ball looping across the six-yard box onto the head of Luciano Rodriguez to score the night’s only goal. Just as crucial to Uruguay winning their first Under-20 World Cup was their success at practically eliminating Casadei’s touches in their box. Italy registered just two shot attempts in 102 minutes of action including stoppage time, both from outside the penalty area, with ...

Ha debuttato da titolare nell’Under. Cresciuto all’Inter e ceduto al Chelsea, ora è in prestito al Reading di Ince Nerazzurro nel destino Qui a fianco Paul Ince, 55 anni, ex centrocampista dell’Inter oggi tecnico del Reading.   ALEX FROSIO - Inviato a Londra 26 Mar 2023 - La Gazzetta dello Sport Cesare è un ragazzone romagnolo dagli occhi chiari che sembra la perfetta pubblicità dell’aria buona della sua terra, e probabilmente pure dell’attività di famiglia, una piadineria a Milano Marittima. Cesare però è anche molto di più. A 20 anni compiuti a gennaio, è uno dei centrocampisti più promettenti del calcio italiano, anche se dall’estate scorsa è andato a sviluppare il suo talento in Inghilterra. Preso a peso d’oro dal Chelsea – 15 milioni più 5 di bonus versati nelle casse dell’Inter con cui aveva vinto il campionato Primavera a suon di gol –, adesso cresce sotto l’occhio di un altro ex nerazzurro, Paul Ince, allenatore del Reading, squadra di Championship. Intanto si fa strada pur...

(Top photo: Cesare Casadei unveiled at Chelsea; Getty Images) https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/3515674/2022/08/19/cesare-casadei-chelsea-transfer-inter/ By James Horncastle - THE ATHLETIC Aug 19, 2022 By the canal in the elegant resort town of Milano Marittima, there’s a place you can sit down for a piadina — one of the local flatbreads — and flick through the sports pages. Cesenatico, the hometown of Italian cyclist Marco Pantani, is a short bicycle ride down the Romagnola Riviera. Cesena itself isn’t far inland either. It was in Cesena that Italy played Hungary in June, at the Dino Manuzzi stadium. The owner of the piadineria in Milano Marittima will be hoping the national team returns soon. His son, Cesare, can play a bit and it surely won’t be long before he gets a senior cap. The boy came through the ranks at Cesena, a once proud club that tended to be a staging post for up-and-coming coaches. You may have heard of some of them: Gigi Radice, Osvaldo Bagnoli, Arrigo Sacchi and Marc...