Place of birth Imbituba, Brazil Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | Playing position Current team Napoli | |
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Name Jorge Filho Full name Jorge Luiz Frello Filho Date of birth (1991-12-20) 20 December 1991 (age 24) | ||
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Jorge Luiz Frello Filho (born 20 December 1991), best known as Jorginho, is an Italian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie A club Napoli, and the Italian national team.
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- Early career
- Hellas Verona
- Napoli
- International career
- Style of play
- Personal life
- Club
- International
- References
Born in Brazil, Jorginho moved to Italy at a young age, and began his professional career with the Verona youth team, before being promoted to the senior team. During the 2010–11 season, he was sent on loan to Sambonifacese. In January 2014, he moved to Napoli, where he immediately won the Coppa Italia and the Supercoppa Italiana.
Early career
He was born in Imbituba in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina but moved to Italy. Jorginho is of Italian descent; his family have origins in Lusiana, Veneto. He was a youth player of Verona. In June 2010, Jorginho was loaned out to Serie C2 side, A.C. Sambonifacese, where he played his first full senior season for the Veneto club – appearing 31 times and scoring one goal whilst providing ten assists from his central midfield position.
Hellas Verona
After a good season at Sambonifacese, he then returned to Verona. He made his first team debut on 4 September 2011, in a match against Sassuolo as a substitute in the 76th minute.
Napoli
On 18 January 2014, he joined Napoli in a co-ownership deal with Verona for four and a half years. On 12 February, he scored the last goal as Napoli overturned a 3-2 first-leg deficit to beat Roma and reach the 2014 Coppa Italia Final. In the final, on 3 May, Jorginho played the full 90 minutes as Napoli defeated Fiorentina 3–1.
In the 2014 Supercoppa Italiana in Doha on 22 December 2014, Jorginho entered the game against Juventus in the second half of extra time in place of Jonathan de Guzmán. He took Napoli's first spot-kick in the penalty shootout, and although Gianluigi Buffon saved it, Napoli were eventually victorious.
International career
As Jorginho holds both Italian and Brazilian citizenship, he is eligible to play for both the Italian and Brazilian national teams. In 2012, he was called up for the first time for Italy U21.
In 2014, Jorginho expressed his desire to represent Italy rather than Brazil internationally, and he received his first call up to the Italy senior squad in March 2016, under manager Antonio Conte, for the team's international friendlies against Spain and Germany. He made his international debut for Italy on 24 March, coming on as a last-minute substitute for Marco Parolo in a 1–1 draw against Spain at the Stadio Friuli in Udine. After initially being included in Conte's preliminary 30-man squad for UEFA Euro 2016, on 31 May, Jorginho was later excluded from the final 23-man squad.
Style of play
A talented, modern, and well-rounded midfielder, with good feet, Jorginho is known for his composure and versatility as a footballer, which allows him to be deployed in any midfield position. Due to his work-rate, technique, ability to break down possession, vision, and passing accuracy, he is capable of playing in a central box-to-box role, or in a defensive role as a ball winner, but usually plays in a creative role, as a deep-lying playmaker, a position which allows him more time on the ball to control the tempo of his team's play with his short, horizontal passing game.
Personal life
Born in Imbituba, in southern Brazil, Jorginho has grandparents from Italy, which helped him gain Italian citizenship, but he has also lived in Italy since the age of 15.