Federico Macheda Is Ready To Go

Fe­d­erico Macheda

Manchester United star­let Fe­d­erico Macheda is look­ing for­ward to the club´s up­com­ing pre-season tour to South Africa and China this month. The striker was loaned out to Queens Park Rangers mid­way through last sea­son but re­turned to Manchester United in the spring for treat­ment after a ser­i­ous ankle in­jury cut short his stay.

Born and bred in Rome, Fe­d­erico Macheda ig­nited his foot­ball ca­reer with Lazio’s youth team be­fore he signed pro­fes­sional terms with Manchester United at the be­gin­ning of the 2008-09 sea­son. The Italian prodigy be­came an im­me­di­ate fa­vour­ite with the Manchester United sup­port­ers when he emerged from the sub­sti­tutes´ bench to score a stop­page time win­ner on his Premier League de­but against As­ton Villa at Old Traf­ford in April 2009. The Italy U21 in­ter­na­tional star­ted the sub­sequent cam­paign strongly but un­for­tu­nately his form faded when it should have blos­somed and the frus­trated foot­baller was soon back in the Manchester United re­serves. The fol­low­ing sea­son Fe­d­erico Macheda was shipped out on loan to re­leg­a­tion threatened Samp­doria where the young pre­tender ap­peared in four­teen Serie A matches be­fore he made his re­turn to Manchester. The Old Traf­ford fron­trun­ner was loaned out again in Janu­ary 2012 to Eng­lish Premier League new boys Queens Park Rangers, for whom he made only three league out­ings. Fe­d­erico Macheda: “When I got to Queens Park Rangers things went a bit wrong as I was feel­ing my ankle a lot. But now I feel a lot bet­ter and want to start the sea­son well. It is a big sea­son for me.”

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