F.C. Internazionale Milano Primavera

Inter Primavera

Full name	Football Club Internazionale Milano Primavera
Nickname(s)	I Nerazzurri (The Black and Blues) La Beneamata (The Cherished One) Il Biscione (The Big Grass Snake)
Founded	1962
Ground	Centro Sportivo Giacinto Facchetti, Milan, Italy Stadio Breda, Sesto San Giovanni, Italy
President	Erick Thohir
Head coach	Stefano Vecchi
League	Campionato Nazionale Primavera
2013-2014	Play-off (4th in regular season)
Home colours Away colours Third colours

F.C. Internazionale Milano Primavera are the under-19 team of Italian professional football club Football Club Internazionale Milano. They play in the Group B of the Campionato Nazionale Primavera. They have been Italian champions seven times and Coppa Italia Primavera winners five times. They also participate in the annual Torneo di Viareggio, an international tournament which they won 6 times.

On 25 March 2012 Internazionale Under 20 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.

Kit

Supplier: Nike^[1] / Sponsor: Pirelli^[2]

Home

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Away

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Primavera

Current squad

As of 1 September 2016^[3]

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

No. Position Player GK Vladan Dekic 92 GK Michele Di Gregorio GK Giulio Mangano DF Andrea Cagnano DF Andrew Gravillon DF Manuel Lombardoni DF Alessandro Mattioli DF Ryan Nolan DF Federico Valietti DF Zinho Vanheusden MF Theophilus Awua 98 MF Marco Carraro MF Mattia Chiarion MF Xian Emmers

No. Position Player MF Tommaso Putzolu MF Marco Sala MF Lamine N'Diaye 91 MF Loris Zonta 93 FW Axel Mohamed Bakayoko FW Mouhamed Belkheir FW Alessandro Bollini Frigerio FW Karlo Butic FW Thomas Gaydu 99 FW Andrea Pinamonti FW Reno Piscopo FW Rigoberto Rivas FW Moussa Souare

'*' denotes a player with first-team appearances

Managerial history

• 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–present)^[5]

Honours

• Campionato Nazionale Primavera
  • Champions (7): 1963-64, 1965–66, 1968–69, 1988–89, 2001–02, 2006–07, 2011–12
  • Runners-up (4): 1979-80, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2007–08
• Coppa Italia Primavera
  • Champions (6): 1972-73, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 2005–06, 2015–16
  • Runners-up (1): 2006-07
• Supercoppa Primavera
  • Runners-up (3): 2006, 2007, 2012
• Torneo di Viareggio
  • Champions (6): 1962, 1971, 1986, 2002, 2008, 2011
  • 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.^[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)

Moreover, Internazionale has affiliated clubs around the world, such as:

• Accademia Internazionale Calcio

Honours

• Campionato Ragazzi: 1
  • 1937-38
• Campionato Berretti: 4
  • 1979–80, 1983–84, 1990–91, 2011-12
• Campionato Allievi Nazionali: 5
  • 1984–85, 1986–87, 1990-1991, 1997–98, 2007–08
• Campionato Giovanissimi Nazionali: 7
  • 1987-88, 1996–97, 2002–03, 2005–06, 2008–09, 2011–12, 2012–13

Notable former Primavera and youth teams players

Many players from Inter's youth system go on to have careers in professional football, whether at Inter 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.

Robert Acquafresca Denis Alibec Marco Andreolli Mario Balotelli Giuseppe Baresi Francesco Bardi Tijani Belaïd Mauro Bellugi Giuseppe Bergomi Jonathan Biabiany Francesco Bolzoni Roberto Boninsegna Leonardo Bonucci Luca Caldirola Nathan Coe Mattia Destro Paolo Dellafiore Marco Delvecchio Giulio Donati Giacinto Facchetti Marco Davide Faraoni Ivan Fatić

Matteo Ferrari Riccardo Ferri Rene Krhin Marko Livaja Dimitar Makriev Obafemi Martins Sandro Mazzola Riccardo Meggiorini Joel Obi Nwankwo Obiora Gabriele Oriali Goran Pandev Giovanni Pasquale Alessandro Potenza Davide Santon Guilherme Siqueira Alen Stevanović Aco Stojkov Carl Valeri Anthar Yahia Walter Zenga

References

1. "Inter and Nike announce historic deal". inter.it. Inter Milan. 28 October 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
2. "Tronchetti Provera: 'Inter and Pirelli, continuing a successful path together'". inter.it. Inter Milan. 22 November 2014. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
3. http://giovanili.inter.it/aas/squadra?IDS=1&L=en
4. "Settore Giovanile, gli allenatori della stagione 2013/2014" (in Italian). 5 July 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
5. "La presentazione alla stampa di Stefano Vecchi" (in Italian). 12 July 2014. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
6. "services". giovanili.inter.it. Retrieved 3 April 2012.

External links

• Inter youth sector official website (English) (Italian)