Heden Corrado
{{Short description|Italian footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Heden Corrado
| image = Heden Corrado - Napoli Femminile 2021-22.jpg
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|2002|3|5|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Rome, Italy
| youthyears1 =
| youthclubs1 = Res Roma
| youthyears2 =
| youthclubs2 = Roma
| currentclub = Ternana
| clubnumber =
| position = Defender
| years1 = 2018–2023
| clubs1 = Roma
| caps1 = 8
| goals1 = 0
| years2 = 2021–2022
| clubs2 = → Napoli (loan)
| caps2 = 11
| goals2 = 0
| years3 = 2022–2023
| clubs3 = → ChievoVerona FM (loan)
| caps3 = 23
| goals3 = 0
| years4 = 2023–2024
| clubs4 = → Pomigliano (loan)
| caps4 = 5
| goals4 = 0
| years5 = 2024–
| clubs5 = Ternana
| caps5 =
| goals5 =
| nationalyears1 = 2017
| nationalteam1 = Italy U16
| nationalcaps1 = 9
| nationalgoals1 = 0
| nationalyears2 = 2017–2019
| nationalteam2 = Italy U17
| nationalcaps2 = 19
| nationalgoals2 = 0
}}
Heden Corrado (born 5 March 2002) is an Italian footballer who plays as defender for Italian club Ternana.{{Cite web|last=|date=2021-07-15|title=Dalla Roma in prestito Severini e Corrado|url=https://napolifemminile.it/2021/07/15/dalla-roma-in-prestito-severini-e-corrado/|access-date=2021-07-15|website=Napoli Femminile|language=it-IT}} 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.{{Cite web|title=Res Roma, protagoniste tricolore: Liberati e Corrado|url=https://www.gazzettaregionale.it/altri-sport/2017/06/28/news/res-roma-protagoniste-tricolore-liberati-e-corrado-46474/|access-date=2021-06-18|website=www.gazzettaregionale.it|language=it}} 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.{{Cite web|date=2019-04-26|title=Wonderkid: il futuro della difesa azzurra porta il nome di Heden Corrado|url=https://www.lfootball.it/2019/04/wonderkid-heden-corrado-talento-tecnica-personalita-al-servizio-della-roma|access-date=2021-06-18|website=L Football|language=it-IT}} 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.{{Cite web|last=|date=2020-08-27|title=Nazionali in cifre|url=https://www.figc.it/it/nazionali/nazionali-in-cifre/|access-date=2021-06-18|website=Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio|language=en}} 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.{{Cite web|last=|date=2021-05-31|title=Roma Wins 2021 Coppa Italia in Penalty Shootout|url=https://www.chiesaditotti.com/2021/5/31/22460983/roma-wins-2021-coppa-italia-in-penalty-shootout|access-date=2021-06-18|website=Chiesa Di Totti|language=en}}
On 15 July 2021, it was officially announced that Corrado moved on loan to Napoli for the 2021–2022 season.
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|date=June 2021}}
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Category:Italian women's footballers
Category:Footballers from Rome
Category:Women's association football midfielders
Category:Serie A (women's football) players
Category:AS Roma (women) players
Category:SSD Napoli Femminile players