Camelia Ceasar

Camelia Ceasar (born 13 December 1997) is a Romanian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Italian Serie A club AS Roma and the Romania women's national team. Her family chose to move to Italy when Ceasar was five years old, and she took up an interest in football soon after settling in Italy.

Club Career

Ceasar began her youth career with Torino in 2008, but was already informally training with the club in the months prior where Ceasar would wear the number 9 shirt and play up front. By coincidence, Caesar was selected to play as a goalkeeper in training and was subsequently offered a youth contract with the club.

Ceasar made the jump to Torino's senior team in the 2012-13 season at thirteen years of age, soon becoming the full-time starting goalkeeper for the Granata. Despite her performances in goal, Torino struggled in Serie A and ultimately finished bottom of the table to find themselves relegated to the Italian second division. Ceasar was offered a chance to stay in top-flight Italian football when she sealed a move to Milena Bertolini's Brescia side for the 2013-2014 season.

Ceasar used her time as an understudy at Brescia to grow her game within the environment of Brescia's "golden generation" of young Italian footballing talent. She finished her first season with the club as a Scudetto winner, with Caesar's 14 appearances in goal helping Brescia win the Serie A league title. Ceasar continued to push Italian international goalkeeper Chiara Marchitelli for the role of starting goalkeeper, during Ceasar's five-year stay at the club.

In her final season with Brescia, Ceasar earned plaudits for saving a penalty in a derby game against Mozzanica, which helped Ceasar finish the calendar year of 2017 as a firm favourite of the club and 2017-18 Brescia coach Gianpiero Piovani's first choice in goal. Ceasar cited the family atmosphere, technical quality and interpersonal qualities around the club as the reason for Brescia's continued success.

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