Inter Milan Youth Sector

Inter Milan Youth Sector

Full name	Football Club Internazionale Milano Youth Sector
Nickname(s)	I Nerazzurri (The Black and Blues) La Beneamata (The Cherished One) Il Biscione (The Big Grass Snake)
Founded	9 March 1908; 113 years ago (1908-03-09)
Ground	Centro Sportivo Giacinto Facchetti, Milan, Italy Stadio Breda, Sesto San Giovanni, Italy
President	Steven Zhang
Head coach	Cristian Chivu (Primavera)
League	Campionato Primavera 1
2020–2021	Campionato Primavera 1, semi-finals (2nd in regular season)
Home colours Away colours Third colours

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 nine 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.

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 16 October 2021^[3][4]

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  ITA William Rovida 2 DF  ITA Mattia Zanotti 3 DF  ITA Fabio Cortinovis 4 MF  ITA Mattia Sangalli 5 DF  KVX Andi Hoti 6 MF  ITA Franco Carboni 7 FW  ITA Lorenzo Peschetola 8 MF  ITA Cesare Casadei 9 FW  EST Oliver Jürgens 10 FW  BUL Nikola Iliev 11 FW  ITA Riccardo Goffi 12 GK  ITA Matteo Basti 13 DF  SVN Samo Matjaž 14 MF  ITA Giovanni Fabbian 15 DF  ITA Alessandro Fontanarosa 16 MF  BRA Mateus Cecchini Müller 18 MF  ITA Francesco Nunziatini

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 DF  ITA Alessandro Silvestro 21 GK  GRE Nikolaos Botis 22 FW  ITA Fabio Abiuso 23 DF  ITA Andrea Moretti 24 MF  DEN Silas Andersen 25 MF  CZE Samuel Grygar 26 MF  ITA Mattia Mirarchi 27 DF  ALB Kristian Dervishi 28 DF  ITA Lorenzo Villa 29 DF  RUS Andrea Pelamatti 30 FW  ITA Enoch Owusu 31 DF  SWE Donart Lubishtani 32 GK  ITA Alessandro Calligaris 33 GK  ITA Gabriele Delvecchio 34 FW  ITA Amadou Sarr — DF  ITA Andrea Pozzi — MF  ITA Andrea Benedetti

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)^[5]
• Stefano Vecchi (2014–2018)^[6]
• Armando Madonna (2018–2021)
• Cristian Chivu (2021– )

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
  • Champions (8): 1962, 1971, 1986, 2002, 2008, 2011, 2015, 2018
  • Runners-up (2): 1972, 1983
• 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.^[7]

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.^[7]

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[]

External links[]

• Inter Youth Sector's official website (in English and Italian)
• The Inter Milan academy way – These Football Times (2015)