Milito Diego. Biography

Diego Alberto Milito is a player from Argentina, currently playing for Racing. Diego has a younger brother Gabriel, who previously played for the national team of Argentina.

Career

Milito Diego was born on June 12, 1979. The birthplace of the player is the town of Bernal in Argentina. His name was given to the footballer in honor of Maradona. The first steps in football, Diego, like his brother, began in a modest team Viejo Bueno. After that, the brothers began to play in different teams of the Argentinean championship.

"Racing"

Milito Diego chose "Racing", for which the mother and father of the football player were ill. He began to speak for him in 1999. Very soon, the "prince" was able to take the place at the heart of the club and was not going to give it away to anyone. The first successes in the club happened in 2001 - "Racing" with the help of Milito was able (for the first time in thirty-five years) to win the Aperture. Brother Gabriel at that time was in favor of another club Avellaneda - "Independiente", for which the grandfather of the brothers was ill. The relationship between these teams was not very friendly. Once the teammates had to take away their brothers during the match. Around the same time in the Milito family, a misfortune happened. The father of the family was kidnapped by unknown people. To save his life, they demanded five hundred thousand dollars. The sum of the ransom was brought down to one hundred thousand, and my father returned home eighteen days later. Because of the stress, Milito Diego began to think about continuing his career in Europe.

"Genoa"

The transition to the Italian "Genoa" Milito has already made quite mature (twenty-five years). At the time of the transfer (2004), "Genoa" did not show confident football in the league, speaking in the series B. With the arrival of Milito Diego, the team gained reinforcement at the forefront of the attack. Diego scored in almost every game and showed his best qualities on the field. In the 2004/05 season, "Genoa" made great efforts and with some help from the Argentinean was ready to go to the first league of the Italian championship. In the last round of the championship, the president of the team decided to buy a victory, although "Genoa" was able to independently beat the opponent. The outbreak of the scandal led to deplorable consequences for the team - flight to C1.

"Zaragoza"

Milito Diego is a football player, who by the time of the departure of "Genoa" has earned a certain popularity with many clubs. And Diego himself did not really want to waste time on games in the lower divisions. So he soon moved to the Spanish "Zaragoza". The contract had the opportunity to buy out a player for five million euros. At that time Diego's younger brother was already playing in the team. In Spain, the player did not stop upsetting the goalkeepers with his game and was formed as an attacker capable of hitting the gate himself or giving it to a partner. Together with all this the player possessed very good technique. Diego Milito, whose photo is often confused with Rocky Balboa, stunningly held matches and scored a lot (you can note poker at the gates of Madrid's "Real"). Nevertheless, the top teams on the attacker did not pay much attention.

And again, "Genoa"

No matter how tried Diego, "Zaragoza" flew to the second division, and the player began to pick up a new team. In the last minutes of the transfer window, Milito made an unexpected transition to Genoa. At that time, the team was able to climb to the series A. From the first matches Milito began to show an excellent game. In the matches there was no equal to the football player. Scoring in the season twenty-four goals, the player took second place in the list of scorers. In addition, he was awarded the title of the best player in the Italian championship.

"Inter"

Finally, Diego Milito received a 2009 offer from Inter. The amount of the purchase cost the team 25 million euros. The salary of the football player in the new club was three and a half million euros, for comparison, the departed Zlatan Ibrahimovic received twelve. In the first fourteen matches Diego managed to score nine goals. Milito scored goals in the most important moments. During the time spent in "Inter", the player was able to excel about 60 times.

Homecoming

In the summer of 2014, the player decided to return to "Argentina". As a free agent, Milito moved to Racing Club. By December, the football player had helped the team win the title of champions. Until now, Milito continues to appear on the field and demonstrate an excellent game.

There is Diego Milito's wife - Sofia, as well as children. Footballer has always been an exemplary family man, avoiding parties and club parties, rarely gave interviews. Few conversations with journalists and the press.