Atalanta BC Youth Sector

Football club
Atalanta Youth Sector
Full nameAtalanta Bergamasca Calcio Youth Sector
Nickname(s)La Dea (The Goddess)
GroundCentro Sportivo Bortolotti, Zingonia [it], Italy
ManagerGiovanni Bosi (Under-19 Primavera squad)
LeagueCampionato Primavera
WebsiteClub website
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The Atalanta BC Youth Sector (Italian: Settore Giovanile) comprises the Primavera (under-19) team and the academy of Italian professional football club Atalanta BC The under-19 squad competes in the Campionato Primavera 1. The club's Primavera side has been champions of Italy four times, having last won the championship in 2019–20. The under-18 side has won the Campionato Allievi Nazionali on four occasions, most recently in the 2015–16 season.

Primavera

Current squad

As of 6 January 2024[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Poland POL Piotr Pardel
2 DF Slovenia SVN Relja Obrić
3 DF Italy ITA Federico Simonetto
4 DF Italy ITA Pietro Comi
5 DF Italy ITA Samuele Ghezzi
7 MF Italy ITA Alberto Manzoni
8 MF Italy ITA Lorenzo Riccio
9 FW Serbia SRB Vanja Vlahović
11 FW Italy ITA Dominic Vavassori
14 DF Italy ITA Luca Gobbo
16 DF Finland FIN Daniel Armstrong
17 FW Benin BEN Candas Fiogbe
18 DF Italy ITA Alessio Guerini (captain)
19 DF Italy ITA Mattia Tavanti
21 MF Italy ITA Andrea Bonanomi
22 GK Italy ITA Lorenzo Sala
No. Pos. Nation Player
23 DF Italy ITA Pietro Tornaghi
24 FW Italy ITA Federico Ragnoli Galli
25 MF Slovakia SVK Martin Parilla
26 FW Iceland ISL Birkir Jakob Jónsson
27 FW Italy ITA Daniele Orlando
28 MF Italy ITA Gabriel Martinelli
29 FW Italy ITA Alex Castiello
30 FW Romania ROU Alexandru Capac
31 MF Italy ITA Federico Cassa
32 MF Italy ITA Niccolò Gariani
33 DF Italy ITA Iacopo Regonesi
36 MF Italy ITA Matteo Colombo
MF Italy ITA Andrea Coati
MF Ghana GHA Anthony Kenneth Mensah
FW Sweden SWE David Pérez

In bold players already capped with senior team in official matches.

Non-playing staff (under-19 squad)

  • Director: Flavio Negrini
  • Head Coach: Giovanni Bosi
  • Assistant manager: Marco Zanchi
  • Goalkeeping Coach: Gabriele Manini
  • Fitness Coach: Emanuele Vit
    Marco Semeria
  • Match analyst: Roberto Ferrari
  • Team Doctor: Stefano Bondi
  • Physiotherapist: Alfredo Adami
    Enrico Tassi
  • Team manager: Flavio Negrini
  • Оfficial accompanying manager: Maurizio De Lorenzo

Settore Giovanile

Berretti (under-18 squad)

Non-playing staff (under-18 squad)

  • Directors: Maurizio De Lorenzo / Amelio Macetti
  • Head Coach: Stefano Lorenzi
  • Fitness Coach: Andrea Filippelli
  • Goalkeeping Coach: Giorgio Frezzolini
  • Team Doctor: Fabrizio Caroli
  • Physiotherapist: Leonardo Belotti

Youth system

Below the Primavera team (U19), and Berretti (U18), there are six other teams listed on the official website:[2]

  • Allievi Nazionali (U17)
  • Allievi Lega Pro (U16)
  • Giovanissimi Nazionali (U15)
  • Giovanissimi Regionali A (U14)
  • Giovanissimi Regionali B (U13)
  • Giovanissimi Regionali Femminili

Managerial history

  • Italy Valter Bonacina (2012–2017) – Primavera (under-19 coach)
  • Italy Massimo Brambilla (2015–2017) – Allievi Nazionali (under-17 coach)
  • Italy Massimo Brambilla (2017–2022) – Primavera (under-19 coach)
  • Italy Marco Fioretto (2022–2023) – Primavera (under-19 coach)[3]
  • Italy Giovanni Bosi [it] (2023–present) – Primavera (under-19 coach)[4]

Honours

  • Campionato Nazionale Primavera
    • Champions: 1992–93, 1997–98, 2018–19, 2019–20
  • Torneo Città di Arco
    • 2016, 2017
  • Campionato Allievi Nazionali
    • 1991–92, 2001–02, 2004–05, 2015–16
  • U-17 Supercoppa Italiana
    • 2016
  • Torneo Internazionale Maggioni-Righi
    • 2017

Notable former Primavera and youth team players

Many players from Atalanta's Primavera squad go on to have careers in professional football, whether at Atalanta or at other clubs. The following is a list of players who have represented their country at full international level and/or have played regularly at a high level of club football.

References

  1. ^ "Atalanta B.C. Primavera squad".
  2. ^ "Settore Giovanile". www.atalanta.it (in Italian). Retrieved 16 December 2017.
  3. ^ "Primavera: Coach Fioretto's thoughts". Atalanta B.C. 14 July 2022. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
  4. ^ "Giovanni Bosi named Atalanta Primavera coach". 4 May 2023. Retrieved 10 August 2023.

External links

  • Official Atalanta B.C. Site
  • How Atalanta's academy is shaping the future of Italian football – These Football Times (2017)
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