Cerci: from the Champions League with Atlético to Serie C

Every transfer market there is some surprising move that leads a player who came to be in the elite to humble soccer. Many thought that the protagonist this summer was Jonathan Biabiany, who at the beginning of the decade was a promising youngster at Inter Milan and who signed for San Fernando in August of the Spanish Second Division B. But already with the market in the main leagues closed, Another signing has been confirmed that catches locals and strangers by surprise, Alessi Cerci will play for Arezzo in the Italian Serie C.

This has been announced by the journalist Nicolò Schira indicating that at 33 years old the one who was a player for Atlético, Torino and Milan has now signed a three-year contract for Arezzo. Cerci began her career in Rome, team in which he was a youth squad, interspersing assignments in Italian clubs. Fiorentina undertook their signing in 2010 and there for two years they played at a good level, which led him to sign for Torino, the team in which he has played the most games in his career.

The season of his confirmation was the 2013-2014 in which he managed to score 13 goals and give 11 assists in the 38 games he played for the Turin team. His stellar role in Torino led him to be international with Italy in the 2014 World Cup and caught the attention of Atlético de Simeone which decided to pay 15 million by the Italian player.

Despite the anticipation of his arrival and the role he could play as a trigger for an attack in which Mandzukic, Griezmann or Arda Turan stood out, the Italian barely spent 250 minutes with the team and in January he left on loan to Milan in an exchange operation in which Fernando Torres returned to the team of his life.

At Milan Cerci he had more minutes, but he did not settle in the starting position, abandoning the Rossoneri in January 2016 to leave on loan for the second half of the season to Genoa. Cerci returned to Atlético in the 2016-2017 season, the last of his contract with the colchoneros, but a knee injury in the first place and Simeone's technical decisions later, allowed him to play only 14 minutes in the entire league. It was the match in which he starred in an episode with Thomas which did not let him shoot the penalty despite the fact that the fans and his teammates wanted it that way.

After this season and in the process of sinking to hell, Cerci began to sign free for various teams, first Hellas Verona where when he was not injured he started many times, a year later the Ankaragucu Turkish and again after a season the Salernitana of the Italian Serie B.

In the second division he only played 330 minutes which has finally led him to take a new step back at the age of 33 and sign with Arezzo in Serie C. Without a doubt, a descent into hell, almost a dizzying pace for a player who less than six years ago was playing in the Champions League with Atlético de Madrid or the 2014 World Cup with Italy. At 33 years old, this signing will surely respond to a step prior to his retirementUnfortunately, this will be very different from how Alessio Cerci had to imagine.