Inter Milan Youth Sector
Inter Milan Youth Sector (Italian: F.C. Internazionale Milano Settore Giovanile) is the youth set-up of Italian professional football club Inter Milan. The under-19 team plays in the Campionato Primavera 1. They have been Italian champions eight times and Coppa Italia Primavera winners five times.[1] They also participate in the annual Torneo di Viareggio, an international tournament which they have won six times.
Full name | Football Club Internazionale Milano Youth Sector | |||
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Nickname(s) | I Nerazzurri (The Black and Blues) La Beneamata (The Cherished One) Il Biscione (The Big Grass Snake) | |||
Ground | Centro Sportivo Giacinto Facchetti, Milan, Italy Stadio Breda, Sesto San Giovanni, Italy | |||
President | Steven Zhang | |||
Head coach | Armando Madonna (Primavera) | |||
League | Campionato Primavera 1 | |||
2018–2019 | Runners-up (2nd in regular season) | |||
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On 25 March 2012, the under-19 team were champions in the inaugural edition of the NextGen Series, an association football tournament which involved the under-19 teams from 16 different clubs from across Europe.[2]
Primavera
Current squad
- As of 22 January 2020[3]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
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36 | MF | Thomas Schirò (captain) | |
38 | GK | Giacomo Pozzer | |
— | GK | Filip Stanković | |
— | GK | Nikos Botis | |
— | GK | Simone Tononi (on loan from Südtirol) | |
— | DF | Lorenzo Colombini | |
— | DF | Fabio Cortinovis | |
— | DF | Lorenzo Moretti | |
— | DF | Michael Ntube | |
— | DF | Georgios Vagiannidis | |
— | DF | Stefano Vaghi | |
— | DF | Étienne Youte Kinkoue | |
— | MF | Christopher Attys | |
— | MF | Riccardo Boscolo Chio |
No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
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— | MF | Riccardo Burgio (on loan from Atalanta) | |
— | MF | Jacopo Gianelli | |
— | MF | Tibo Persyn | |
— | MF | Brando Sami | |
— | MF | Niccolò Squizzato | |
— | MF | Franco Vezzoni | |
— | FW | Nicholas Bonfanti | |
— | FW | Pasquale Carlino | |
— | FW | Matias Fonseca | |
— | FW | Samuele Mulattieri | |
— | FW | Gaetano Oristanio | |
— | FW | Edoardo Vergani | |
— | FW | Stefano Musardo |
Managerial history
unknown (1962–2001) Corrado Verdelli (2001-2003) Daniele Bernazzani (2003-2006) Vincenzo Esposito (2006-2009) Fulvio Pea (2009-2011) Andrea Stramaccioni (2011-2012) Daniele Bernazzani (2012-2013) Salvatore Cerrone (2013–2014)[4] Stefano Vecchi (2014–2018)[5] Armando Madonna (2018–present)
Honours
- Campionato Nazionale Primavera
- Champions (9): 1963-64, 1965–66, 1968–69, 1988–89, 2001–02, 2006–07, 2011–12, 2016-17, 2017-18
- Runners-up (5): 1979-80, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2007–08, 2018-19
- Coppa Italia Primavera
- Champions (6): 1972-73, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 2005–06, 2015–16
- Runners-up (1): 2006-07
- Supercoppa Primavera
- Champions (1): 2017
- Runners-up (4): 2006, 2007, 2012, 2016
- Torneo di Viareggio
- NextGen Series
- Champions (1): 2011–12
Youth system
The home of Inter's Youth Sector is at Centro Sportivo Giacinto Facchetti, 30,000 square metres of professional training and education facilities between the Niguarda and Bresso districts in the north of Milan.[6]
Inter Youth Sector has 20 scouts in the Lombardy region and 10 in the rest of Italy. They all report directly to the general coordinator in Milan.[6]
Below the Primavera team (U19), there are nine other teams:
- Berretti (U18)
- Allievi Nazionali (U17)
- Allievi Nazionali Lega Pro (U16)
- Giovanissimi Nazionali (U15)
- Giovanissimi Regionali (U14)
- Giovanissimi Regionali Fascia B (U13)
- Esordienti (U12)
- Pulcini Regionali (U11)
- Pulcini B (U10)
- Pulcini C (U9)
Honours
- Campionato Berretti: 6
- 1979–80, 1983–84, 1990–91, 2011–12, 2015–16, 2016–17
- Campionato Allievi Nazionali: 8
- 1984–85, 1986–87, 1990-1991, 1997–98, 2007–08, 2013–14, 2016-2017, 2018-2019
- Campionato Giovanissimi Nazionali: 9
- 1987-88, 1996–97, 2002–03, 2005–06, 2008–09, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2014–15, 2017-18
References
- Fabiana Della Valle (19 May 2007). "Inter-Samp Una finale con cabala". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian).
- Vincenzo D'Angelo (12 June 2017). "Inter, da Pinamonti a Vanheusden, tutti i protagonisti dello scudetto Primavera". gazzetta.it.
- "Inter.it". F.C. Internazionale - Inter Milan. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
- "Settore Giovanile, gli allenatori della stagione 2013/2014" (in Italian). 5 July 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
- "La presentazione alla stampa di Stefano Vecchi" (in Italian). 12 July 2014. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
- "services". giovanili.inter.it. Retrieved 3 April 2012.
External links
- Inter Youth Sector's official website (in English and Italian)
- The Inter Milan academy way – These Football Times (2015)