Parma F.C. Academy

Parma F.C. Academy (it. Settore Giovanile) is the youth set-up of Parma Football Club, comprising eight squads divided by age group: Primavera, Allievi Nazionale and Allievi Regionali (who train at Centro Sportivo di Collecchio), and Giovanissimi Nazionali, Giovanissimi Regionali Esordienti Regionali, Esordienti Provinciali and Pulcini (who train at Campi Stuard).^[1]

Primavera

Parma Under-20s

Full name	La Primavera del Parma F.C.
Nickname(s)	I Crociatini (The Young Crusaders) La Primavera Crociata (The Crusader Youth Team)
Ground	Centro Sportivo Parma Calcio, Collecchio[2]
President	Tommaso Ghirardi[3]
Head Coach	Fausto Pizzi[4]
League	Campionato Nazionale Primavera
2011-12	9th, Girone A
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours Third colours

The Primavera is the Parma football team composed of footballers between 17 and 20 years old, which is the most senior youth category according to Italian football’s hierarchy. Each season, the Primavera squad is trialled for promotion to the first team before the beginning of the Serie A season. Players deemed ready for first team football are registered and given a first team squad number.

The team currently competes in the Italian Campionato Nazionale Primavera, which has been known as the Trofeo Giacinto Facchetti since 2006, but have never won the title.^[5] Parma failed to finish in the top five of their fourteen-team league, finishing sixth, and so were eliminated before the play-offs began in the 2010–11 season. The squad also compete in the Coppa Italia Primavera, the national Italian youth cup competition, but have also failed to win that competition^[6] and were knocked out in the second round in the 2010–11 season for the second consecutive year. Having won neither of the two Italian Primavera competitions, Parma have never competed in the Supercoppa Primavera.

The closest the team has come to a major honour was in the Torneo di Viareggio, a major youth tournament contested by teams from all over the world, succumbing to a 3–1 defeat at the hands of Brescia Calcio in 1996. Appearances in the third place play-off of that competition have ended in a 1988 win on penalties over A.C. Milan and a 1–0 defeat to Internazionale in 1989.^[7] The play-off was abolished in 2009, but Parma did manage a fourth semi-final appearance in 2012, losing 1–0 to Juventus F.C..^[8]

Current squad

As of 26 February 2013^[9][10]

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

No. Position Player 26 MF José Mauri 44 GK Daniele De Angelis - GK Marijan Coric — GK Victor De Lucia — GK Diego Rossetto — DF Karl Allepo — DF Mirko Esposito — DF Domenico Frare — DF Luca Pipoli — DF Dembel Sall — DF Davide Zagnoni — DF Davide Zuccolini — MF Johnson Adejumobi — MF Juri Bottino — MF Lorenzo Capezzani

No. Position Player — MF Sergio Corso — MF Leonardo Dias Consulin — MF Filip Jankovic — MF Davide Mazzocco — MF Solomon Nyantakyi — MF Badara Sarr — MF Zoran Svonja — FW Vittorio Attili — FW Marco Boscolo Zemelo — FW Alberto Cerri — FW Lukas Haraslin — FW Geremy Lombardi (on loan from Inter Milan) — FW Martín Martínez — FW Francesco Silipo

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player 93 GK Mirko Pigliacelli (at Sassuolo) — DF Nicolò Belotti (at Carrarese)[11] — DF Simone Ciciotti (at Foligno) — DF Matteo Mantovani (at Chieti)[12] — MF Godfred Adofo (at CFR Cluj)[13] — MF Yves Benoît Bationo (at Empoli)[11] — MF Nicola Berselli (at Sassuolo) — MF Sergio Corso (at Mantova) — MF Gianmaria Cucurnia (at Spezia)[14] — MF Vittorio Fabris (at FeralpiSalò)[15] — MF Marco Firenze (at Giacomense)

No. Position Player — MF Mattia Musi (at Mezzocorona) — MF Cristian Pedrinelli (at Renate) — MF Irfan Šahman (at Crotone)[11] — FW Alesso Aracu (at Savona)[16] — FW Michele Bentoglio (at Vallée d’Aoste) — FW Mauro Cioffi (at Renate)[11] — FW Riccardo Cocuzza (at Gubbio) — FW Nicolò Dallaglio (at Pontedera)[17] — FW Diego De Giorgi (at Fondi)[18] — FW Giuseppe De Vincentis (at Carpi) — FW Samuele Marinucci (at Arezzo)[19] — FW Paolo Martino (at Ancona)[20] — FW Giuseppe Pasquariello (at Fidenza) — FW Simone Smacchia (at Spezia)[21]

Co-owned at other clubs

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

No. Position Player — FW Domenico Mungo (with Chieti)[22]

Staff

• Head Coach: Fausto Pizzi^[4]
• Assistant Coaches: Francesco Corsini, Gianfranco Liverani^[4]

Honours

• Torneo di Viareggio
  • Runners-up (1): 1996
• Torneo Città di Vignola
  • Winners (1): 2001

Other youth teams

Below the Primavera, which, for the 2012–13 season caters for those born in 1993, 1994 and 1995, are the following youth teams:^[1]

• Allievi Nazionali (under 17s) – Players born in 1996
  • League winners in 2003–04^[23]
• Allievi Regionali (under 16s) – Players born in 1997
• Giovanissimi Nazionali (under 15s) – Players born in 1998
• Giovanissimi Regionali (under 14s) – Players born in 1999
• Esordienti Nazionali (under 13s) – Players born in 2000
• Esordienti Regionali (under 12s) – Players born in 2001
• Pulcini (under 11s) – Players born in 2002

Notable former players

Many players from Parma's Settore Giovinale go on to have careers in professional football, whether at Parma or at other clubs. The following is a list of players who have played in Serie A.^[24]

Footnotes and references

External links

• Official Website