Heden Corrado

Heden Corrado
Personal information
Date of birth (2002-03-05) 5 March 2002 (age 22)
Place of birth Rome, Italy
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
 Ternana
Youth career
Res Roma
Roma
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2018–2023 Roma 8 (0)
2021–2022 → Napoli (loan) 11 (0)
2022–2023 → ChievoVerona FM (loan) 23 (0)
2023–2024 → Pomigliano (loan) 5 (0)
2024– Ternana
International career
2017 Italy U16 9 (0)
2017–2019 Italy U17 19 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Heden Corrado (born 5 March 2002) is an Italian footballer who plays as defender for Italian club Ternana.[1] She graduated from Roma's youth teams and has represented her country at U-16 and U-17 level.

Club career

Corrado originally trained as a midfielder at youth level before she was moved to the backline to become a ball-playing defender. The decision led to Corrado becoming a key player in Res Roma Primavera's consecutive league title wins.[2] By the summer of 2018, Res Roma sold their Serie A license to newly-formed club A.S. Roma and transferred Corrado's playing rights to her new club.

Corrado began playing for A.S. Roma at senior level during the 2018–19 season, but she suffered a traumatic knee injury early in the season that put her out of action for a lengthy period.

Despite spending a year out recovering from major injury, Corrado was still named in the press as one of Italy's most promising talents in 2019.[3] Corrado spent the latter half of 2019 making her comeback to pitch, and was trusted to wear the captain's armband at international level for the Italy U-17 team.[4] Despite the faith shown in her by her country, she could not break into Roma's first team in Serie A from 2019 onwards. However, Corrado did play for Roma in the 2020–21 Coppa Italia success, which led to Corrado picking up a Coppa Italia winner's medal when Roma defeated AC Milan in the 30 May 2021 final.[5]

On 15 July 2021, it was officially announced that Corrado moved on loan to Napoli for the 2021–2022 season.[1]

Style of play

Corrado is a ball-playing defender who is very comfortable carrying the ball out of the backline to help her team's build-up play. Her physical stature and strength help her to win aerial and physical duels against individual opponents.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ a b "Dalla Roma in prestito Severini e Corrado". Napoli Femminile (in Italian). 15 July 2021. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Res Roma, protagoniste tricolore: Liberati e Corrado". www.gazzettaregionale.it (in Italian). Retrieved 18 June 2021.
  3. ^ "Wonderkid: il futuro della difesa azzurra porta il nome di Heden Corrado". L Football (in Italian). 26 April 2019. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
  4. ^ "Nazionali in cifre". Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio. 27 August 2020. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
  5. ^ "Roma Wins 2021 Coppa Italia in Penalty Shootout". Chiesa Di Totti. 31 May 2021. Retrieved 18 June 2021.