Lorenzo Insigne was born in Naples on 4 June 1991. He was part of the Napoli youth set-up and made his debut with the Primavera side in 2008, going on to score 15 goals for the team in the 2009/10 league season. His debut for the Napoli senior team then came in a win away to Livorno on 24 January 2010. Insigne spent the rest of that season at Lega Pro side Cavese on loan, before moving to Foggia the following year. Foggia’s manager of the time was Zdenek Zeman, who helped Insigne take advantage of his technical abilities in his offensive formation, as he scored 19 goals in 33 appearances for the club from Apulia. Both of them moved to Pescara one year later, where Insigne would form, along with Ciro Immobile and Marco Verratti, one of the best trios in Serie B. Pescara were promoted to Serie A and Insigne scored 18 goals along with 14 assists.

After this feat at Pescara, Insigne’s return to Napoli for the 2012/13 campaign was inevitable, first under Coach Mazzarri and then Benitez. He soon became the second Italian player ever, after Antonio Di Natale, to score in Serie A, the Champions League, the Europa League and Coppa Italia in the same season. He was a Serie A runner-up with the team in the 2012/13 season and won both the Coppa Italia and the Italian Super Cup in 2014. Following Sarri’s arrival, Lorenzo became a regular starter within the Partenopei’s attacking trio. During the 2015/16 campaign, he registered twelve goals and ten assists, improving on this tally one year later with 18 goals and nine assists. As the team changed and Ancelotti came in as coach and Hamsik left as a player, Insigne took on the captain’s armband for the Partenopei, remaining the side’s skipper under Gattuso.

After playing for the Under-20 National Team in 2010, Insigne made his debut for the U21s against Liechtenstein on 16 October 2011. Overall, he scored seven goals in 15 caps for the Under-21 side and finished as a runner-up at the 2013 U21 Euros held in Israel.

On 2 September 2012 at the age of 21, Insigne received his first-ever call-up to the senior National Team from Cesare Prandelli, for the 2014 World Cup qualifiers against Bulgaria and Malta. He also took part in the tournament stage in Brazil, where he made just one appearance. Antonio Conte included him in his squad for EURO 2016 in France, and he remained in the side under both Ventura and Mancini. To date, Insigne boasts 34 caps and seven goals for Italy.