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By continuing to use this site you are giving consent to our use of cookies on Racing Post websites in accordance with our cookie policy. Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter. You are here: Home Players Federico Macheda. Federico Macheda Forward Panathinaikos. Football Blog. Currently no blogs for today. Football Betting News.

Currently no news for today. Whether it's the Johnstone's Paint Trophy or the Champions League, Soccerbase will ensure you don't experience a big cup upset. Agonising over Aberdeen? Yearning for Yeovil? Once you have subscribed we will use the email you provided to send you the newsletter. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the newsletter email. After scoring eight goals in eight games for the reserve side, Macheda was called up to the first team by Sir Alex Ferguson for a crunch Premier League fixture at home to Aston Villa on April 5, We all know what happened next.

Macheda, aged just 17 at the time, came on as a second-half substitute and scored a famous late winning goal. It was a goal of real quality.

The former United striker had coached Macheda at junior level before he made the leap to the first team but he failed to make his mark and, after an unsuccessful loan stay at Nottingham Forest, he is now plying his trade at Novara. Now 25, happily married, a father to a young boy, Macheda is happy with his lot but feels things could have worked out very differently for him had he listened to Ferguson.

Many Premier League clubs came in for me, including Everton and Sunderland. Fergie did not agree and said I should play in England, where he could keep an eye on me. A history of back problems also played a part in Macheda failing to fulfil his potential, revealing that he should have surgery to clear up a long-standing issue much sooner than he did. United knew how to control Ajax. I don't do the minimum anymore like I did at United.

Happily, he has begun to find his goal-scoring touch again, netting seven times in 18 matches. Feeling more comfortable with both his game and himself than ever before, he is as determined to make the most of the remaining years of his career.