With the Academy leagues as well on a Christmas hiatus and with all commitments to resume at the dawn of the New Year, it is high time to take stock of the performances of all our Youth teams at the watershed of the season – starting off from the Academy and moving on to our Grassroots and Female sides within the following weeks.
With the cornerstone of our Youth System being the personal growth of each player, while also harnessing each individuality in a perspective of shared development, our nurturing strategy places utmost focus on the premise of encouraging the enrollment and inclusion of under-age players for each U-sides.
PRIMAVERA
After twelve matches, the black-and-blue lads sit 13th in the standings with a tally of 14 points. The championship, on hold ever since the beginning of November, is set to resume on the 7th of January with the outing against Cagliari.
After a bumpy start, the team coached by Marco Fioretto forged ahead bucking the trend with a positive streak of 5 consecutive matches without knowing defeat, accruing 11 points, between September and October. The latest league fixture witnessed our Primavera imposing themselves over Sassuolo, the third force of the league, in the home 2-0 victory hosted in Zingonia. In the aforementioned fixture, Tommaso De Nipoti, the current captain and top scorer of the team with 6 goals after 10 appearances, found once again his scoring ways netting one of the two goals featuring the final scoreboard.
UNDER 18
After 12 matchdays, the U-18 side holds the 7th place in the standings, on the ground of their 16 points.
Stefano Lorenzi’s team closed this first half of the season with a winning streak of two back-to-back victories: namely, in the home fixture against the likes of SPAL, the current “winter champions”, at the Centro Bortolotti and in the latest outing against Parma. The league is set to resume on the 22nd of January with the home fixture to be played against Hellas Verona. Alberto Manzoni is the top scorer of the team, with 9 goals; out of which, 8 have been scored in the last 7 matchdays.
UNDER 17
With a tally of 26 points in 14 matchdays, the U-17 hold a tight grip on fourth place. The winning streak of three back-to-back victories of Gianpaolo Bellini’s lads abruptly came to a halt in the latest fixture. The resumption of the league is marked by the outing against Udinese, scheduled for the 15th of January.
With 14 different players honing their killer instinct in front of goal in as many matchdays, the status of the leading scorer is a three-way race between the midfielder Mattia Arrigoni, the striker Frederick Ndongue Ndongue and the left winger Federico Simonetto with four goals each.
UNDER 16
The Atalantini lads born as late as 2007 approached the winter break holding the 2nd place in the standings, with 22 points accrued after 9 matches. The team with Giovanni Bosi at the helm, flaunting 7 victories and an impressive goal average of more than 2 nets per game, lags behind for 2 points off the summit. After defeating Hellas Verona 4-0 in the latest league match, played at the beginning of December, our lads will resume their league commitments next January 22 with the home derby against Brescia to be hosted at the Centro Bortolotti.
With 6 goals scored and, more notably, on a scoring spree of two consecutive braces, Rahul Sharma is the current golden boot of the team, followed up close by his 2008 teammate Samuele Inacio, flaunting a tally of 5 goals and scoring in his last 3 games.
UNDER 15
The black-and-blue players born as late as 2008 sit 3rd in the league with 19 points after 9 matchdays, shy of 2 points from the top of the league. After tendering their send-off from the league with the roaring 8-0 home victory over Hellas Verona in the match hosted at the Centro Bortolotti, league commitments are to restart on the 22nd of January with the home derby against Brescia. The team with Alessio Gambirasio at the helm saw the year off with a winning streak of 3 consecutive victories. Vincenzo Damiano, with 9 goals in as many matchdays, currently holds the title of the leading scorer.
UNDER 14
The black and blue players born in 2009 have ended the first half of the season with flying colours as they currently hold the top of the standings with full points. Namely, having accrued 21 points thanks to 7 out of 7 victories, the lads coached by Roberto Previtali have secured their crown of “winter champions”. At the end of the break, the outing against Mantova scheduled for the 5th of February awaits.
