Cesare Casadei
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Casadei with Italy in 2025 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Cesare Casadei | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 10 January 2003 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Ravenna, Italy | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Torino | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 22 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| Cervia | |||||||||||||||||
| –2018 | Cesena | ||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2022 | Inter Milan | ||||||||||||||||
| 2022–2023 | Chelsea | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023–2025 | Chelsea | 11 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023 | → Reading (loan) | 15 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023–2024 | → Leicester City (loan) | 22 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2025– | Torino | 15 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | Italy U16 | 9 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2019 | Italy U17 | 1 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021 | Italy U18 | 1 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021–2022 | Italy U19 | 12 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022–2023 | Italy U20 | 9 | (8) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022– | Italy U21 | 14 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 30 May 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 14 June 2025 | |||||||||||||||||
Cesare Casadei (born 10 January 2003) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Serie A club Torino.
Casadei played youth football with various Italian clubs before moving from Inter Milan to Chelsea in 2022. He was sent on loan in January 2023 and made his professional debut with Reading. He then joined Leicester City on loan for the 2023–24 season. He was then recalled from his loan in January 2024.
Representing Italy in various youth levels, Casadei received the Golden Ball and the Golden Boot awards in the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup.