Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Samuel Iling-Junior [1] | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 4 October 2003 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Islington, England | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) [2] | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Winger, wing-back | ||||||||||||||||
Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Juventus | ||||||||||||||||
Number | 17 | ||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
2011–2020 | Chelsea | ||||||||||||||||
2020–2021 | Juventus | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
2021– | Juventus Next Gen [lower-alpha 1] | 9 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
2022– | Juventus | 34 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
2018 | England U15 | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2018–2019 | England U16 | 8 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2019 | England U17 | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2021–2022 | England U19 | 7 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
2022–2023 | England U20 | 6 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
2023– | England U21 | 5 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:03, 12 May 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 13:06, 27 March 2024 (UTC) |
Samuel Iling-Junior (born 4 October 2003) is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger or wing-back for Serie A club Juventus.
A youth product of Chelsea and Juventus, Iling-Junior made his debut for reserve team Juventus U23 in the 2021–22 season, while also reaching the UEFA Youth League semi-finals with the U19 squad. In the following campaign, Iling-Junior started with Juventus Next Gen, [lower-greek 1] scoring four goals in seven matches, and then was promoted to the first team in December 2022, after making his debut both in Serie A and Champions League.
Iling-Junior has represented England at various youth international levels, having won a UEFA European Under-19 Championship in 2022.
Born in Islington, [5] London, Iling-Junior joined Chelsea academy in 2011 at the age of eight, [6] [7] and spent nine years with the club. [8] He was promoted to the under-19s aged 16. [9] In 2020, he decided to leave Chelsea, rejecting an athletic scholarship deal, [10] attracting the interest from clubs such as Paris Saint-Germain, Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and Juventus; he signed a three-year contract with the latter in September of that year. [8] [9]
On 7 October 2020, Iling-Junior was included in The Guardian 's list of the 60 best young talents in the world born in 2003. [11] On 2 April 2021, he was first called up by Juventus U23 alongside his U19 teammate Gabriele Mulazzi for a Serie C match against Alessandria. [12] He finished the 2020–21 season with four goals and seven assists in 28 matches for the under-19 team. [9]
On 22 August, he made his debut for Juventus U23 in a 3–2 win against Pro Sesto in the Coppa Italia Serie C. [13] His Serie C debut came on 3 October, replacing Nikola Sekulov in the second half against Mantova. [14] Iling-Junior was first called up to the first team on 21 May 2022, for a match against Fiorentina. [15]
In the 2021–22 season, he improved his stats, having played 36 matches and scored 13 goals. [9] Iling-Junior also helped the U19s reach the UEFA Youth League semifinals, their best-ever placing in the competition. [16]
Iling-Junior scored his first professional goal on 3 September 2022, in the 13th minute in Trento–Juventus Next Gen, [lower-greek 1] their first season match. [17] He made his Serie A debut for the first team in a match against Empoli, on 21 October, coming on as a substitute for Filip Kostić in the 84th minute. [9]
On 25 October, Iling-Junior made his Champions League debut against Benfica, replacing Kostić in the 70th minute with Juventus trailing 4–1. [18] He assisted Arkadiusz Milik's 4–2 goal after six minutes, and provided a key pass for Weston McKennie's goal two minutes later. [18] Four days later, in an away match against Lecce, Iling-Junior assisted Nicolò Fagioli's winner after only 41 seconds from entering the pitch; [19] however, he suffered a right-ankle sprain after being fouled by Federico Di Francesco, ruling him out for 20 days. [20]
On 19 December, Juventus announced that Iling-Junior renewed his contract until 2025, being subsequently promoted to the first team. [21] He was promoted after scoring four goals in nine matches for Next Gen (two of which were during the previous season). [13] He made his first-minute debut with the first team on the 19th of the following month, in Juventus–Monza, in the Coppa Italia. [22]
On 2 March 2023, Iling-Junior started the first leg of the final of the Coppa Italia Serie C with Juventus Next Gen and scored a 47th-minute equaliser against Vicenza, against whom they lost 2–1. [23] [24] On 11 April, he also played the second leg, in which he kicked a penalty he had won over the post at the 90th minute; they lost 3–2 (5–3 on aggregate). [25] [26]
On 7 May, he made his first start in Serie A and scored his first goal with Juventus' first team, netting the opener in a 2–0 away win over Atalanta. [27] [28]
Born in England, Iling-Junior is of DR Congolese descent. [29] He was a member of the U17's 2019 Syrenka Cup winning squad. [30]
On 6 October 2021, he made his debut for the England U19s as a substitute during a 3–1 defeat to France in Marbella, Spain. [31] On 17 June 2022, Iling-Junior was included in the England U19 squad for the 2022 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, [32] which England won with a 3–1 extra time victory over Israel on 1 July. [33] [34] [35]
On 21 September 2022, he made his England U20 debut in a 3–0 win over Chile at the Pinatar Arena in Spain. [36] On 24 March 2023, he scored a brace in England U20's 2–0 win to Germany U20. [37]
On 11 September 2023, Iling-Junior made his England U21 debut during a 3-0 2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification win away to Luxembourg. [38]
Iling-Junior mainly plays a winger, either on the left or right. His versatility allowed him to be deployed various areas of the pitch by Juventus U19 coach Andrea Bonatti, namely as a left-back, left or right forward, attacking midfielder or central midfielder. [9] His main qualities are his goalscoring, dribbling and running abilities. [9] [39]
Iling-Junior moved to Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic, which he found challenging. [7] He has become nearly fluent in Italian. [7]
Club | Season | League | Coppa Italia | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Juventus U23 [lower-greek 1] | 2021–22 | Serie C | 1 | 0 | — | — | 1 [lower-alpha 2] [13] | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
Juventus Next Gen [lower-greek 1] | 2022–23 | Serie C | 8 | 3 | — | — | 3 [lower-alpha 2] [13] | 2 | 11 | 5 | ||
Total | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 5 | ||
Juventus | 2022–23 | Serie A | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 [lower-alpha 3] | 0 | — | 18 | 1 | |
2023–24 | Serie A | 22 | 1 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 25 | 1 | |||
Total | 34 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 2 | ||
Career total | 43 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 56 | 7 |
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