Felipe Caicedo: the career of an Ecuadorian footballer

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Felipe Salvador Caicedo Coroso is an Ecuadorian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Italian club Lazio. Since 2005, the player has represented his national team at the international level in all tournaments. In total, he played 66 matches for the Ecuadorian national team and scored 22 goals. In September 2017, Felipe Caicedo publicly announced his retirement from international career, the reason for this decision was the departure of head coach Gustavo Quinteros.

Previously, the Ecuadorian forward represented such European clubs as Basel, Manchester City, Sporting Lisbon, Malaga, Lokomotiv Moscow and Espanyol. In 2014, the player was part of the Al Jazeera club from the United Arab Emirates for half a season. The player is 183 cm tall and weighs 81 kg.

Biography

Felipe Caicedo was born on September 5, 1988 in Guvaquil, Ecuador. In one of the interviews, the football player spoke about his difficult childhood. Felipe grew up and was brought up in the most dangerous area of South America, where in the evening you should once again think about whether to go out or not. I had to oftenfight, run and hide. Poverty, theft and impunity - that's what he lived in the area of his childhood. Felipe Caicedo quite often admits that he has no idea what he could do if fate had not connected him with football.

At the age of 14, he became a player in the local youth team Barcelona. Felipe spent two seasons here, winning several actual trophies with the team. In 2004, Caicedo moved to Rocafuerte's academy, where he spent his last season at youth level.

Professional career: Basel debut, first titles

In 2005 Swiss scouts came to Ecuador to look for young football talent. Having visited the Rocafuerte training, they immediately drew attention to the forward F. Caicedo. The guy had the highest speed in the club, was physically powerful and quite intellectual in the football sense. In the same year, 17-year-old Felipe Quesedo signed his first professional contract with the Swiss Basel. The amount of the deal was not disclosed. Due to his age, Caicedo trained with the youth team, although he belonged to the first team. In the 2006/07 season, he took part in 27 matches and scored 7 goals. Became the owner of the Swiss Cup 2007.

A wave of glory and jubilation swept over the whole of Europe, many eminent clubs began to look after the Ecuadorian talent. The following season, the Ecuadorian forward played in 18 matches and scored 4 goals. It's been a very successful season! Together with Basel, Felipe Caicedo became the Swiss champion in 2007/08 and won the Swiss Cup in 2008.

Career at Manchester City

On January 31, 2008, it became officially known that the Ecuadorian striker would move to the English Manchester City for four and a half years for 5.2 million pounds (about 7 million euros). The transfer of Caicedo has become one of the highest in the history of the Swiss Super League. As part of the Sky Blues, the Ecuadorian spent two seasons, playing in 27 matches and scoring 5 goals in his statistics. The football player showed an excellent game, but it was extremely difficult for him to gain a foothold in the MS, so the management decided to loan the attacker.

Rentals

From 2009 to 2011, Felipe Caicedo was loaned to clubs such as Sporting Lisbon, Malaga and Levante. And if the career did not work out in the Portuguese championship, then everything turned out very smoothly in the Spanish championship - the striker regularly appeared in the starting lineup and delighted the audience with goals scored.

Transfer to Lokomotiv Moscow

On July 25, 2011, Caicedo signed a four-year contract with Lokomotiv for 7.5 million euros. As part of the "railroad" received a T-shirt with the 25th number.

On August 4, F. Caicedo made his debut in the Russian Premier League in the match against Volga, coming on as a substitute in the 61st minute instead of Dmitry Loskov. On August 28, the Ecuadorian scored his first goal against Kuban. In subsequent games, the striker often appeared in the first team and occasionally scored goals. Here he played for the first time in the Europa League, in a match againstSpartak Trnava, and a couple of months later scored a goal against AEK Athens.

In 2013, the network exploded with news when social media users saw Felipe Caicedo's girlfriend. The girl studied at the Faculty of Journalism and daily updated her Instagram account with juicy photos. In many Russian sports publications, she was named the girl of the week.

Further career, where is he now?

In 2014, the Ecuadorian striker moved to the Al Jazeera club, where he spent no more than six months. On the eve of the 2014/15 season, he moved to Espanyol, where he played until 2017 (he played 93 matches and scored 19 goals). Currently playing for Lazio.