A.S. Roma Primavera

Roma Primavera

Full name	Associazione Sportiva Roma SpA
Nickname(s)	i Giallorossi (The Yellow-Reds) La Maggica (The Magic One) i Lupi (The Wolves)
Ground	Stadio Olimpico Rome, Italy
Ground Capacity	70,634
President	James Pallotta
Head coach	Alberto De Rossi
League	Campionato Nazionale Primavera
2013–14	3rd, Campionato Nazionale Primavera (Girone C); lost in quarter finals[1]
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours Third colours

A.S. Roma Primavera is the youth set-up of Italian Serie A club AS Roma. The team currently compete in the Campionato Nazionale Primavera Grione C, as well as the Coppa Italia Primavera and the UEFA Youth League, thanks to the senior team qualifying for the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League. Roma Primavera have enjoyed a lot of success over the years, winning the Campionato Nazionale Primavera 7 times, the Coppa Italia Primavera 4 times and Torneo di Viareggio on 3 occasions.

Player's to have graduated from the AS Roma Primavera squad include Bruno Conti, Agostino Di Bartolomei and Giuseppe Giannini, as well as current first team players Daniele De Rossi, Alessandro Florenzi and club captain, record appearance holder and record goalscorer Francesco Totti. Alberto De Rossi, father of Daniele, has been Head Coach of Roma Primavera since 2007.

Primavera

Current squad

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

No. Position Player 92 GK Gabriele Marchegiani GK Ionut Pop GK Francesco Faiella DF Matteo Belvisi 91 DF Arturo Calabresi 50 DF Michele Somma 90 DF Elio Capradossi DF Andrea Paolelli DF Massimo Sammartino DF Silvio Anocic DF Eros De Santis MF Christian D'Urso 93 MF Lorenzo Pellegrini (Captain) MF Emanuele Ndoj MF Matteo Adamo

No. Position Player MF Andrei Tugui MF Simone Ricozzi MF Lorenzo Vasco MF Lorenzo Di Livio FW Tommaso Taviani FW Luca Damiani FW Francesco Di Mariano FW Nicholas De Santis FW Daniele Verde 77 FW Jacopo Ferri FW Edoardo Soleri FW Tomáš Vestenický FW Aimone Calì MF Conor Borg

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player GK Francesco Proietti Gaffi (at FeralpiSalò) DF Deian Bolder (at Pescara) MF Simone Battaglia (at Vigor Lamezia)

No. Position Player FW Valerio Trani (at Torino) FW Valmir Berisha (at Panathinaikos) FW Franck Cedric Njiki Tchoutou (at Nîmes Olympique)

2014-15 UEFA Youth League

Squad

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Gabriele Marchegiani 2 DF Eros De Santis 3 DF Silvio Anocic 4 DF Arturo Calabresi 5 DF Elio Capradossi 6 MF Lorenzo Vasco 7 FW Daniele Verde 8 MF Lorenzo Pellegrini (Captain) 9 FW Antonio Sanabria 10 MF Matteo Adamo 11 FW Francesco Di Mariano 12 GK Ionut Pop 13 DF Andrea Paolelli 14 DF Stefano Ciavattini 15 DF Riccardo Marchizza 16 DF Matteo Belvisi 17 MF Emanuele Ndoj 18 MF Simone Ricozzi 19 MF Lorenzo Di Livio

No. Position Player 20 MF Christian D'Urso 21 FW Nicholas De Santis 22 MF Pepín 23 GK Francesco Faiella 24 FW Tomáš Vestenický 25 FW Edoardo Soleri 26 FW Aimone Calì 27 FW Marco Tumminello 28 MF Alessandro Bordin 29 DF Irlian Ceka 30 FW Francesco Di Nolfo 31 MF Lorenzo Grossi 32 MF Andrea Marcucci 33 MF Emanuele Spinozzi 34 DF Niccolò Tofanari 36 GK Lorenzo Crisanto — FW Tommaso Taviani — FW Gianluca Scamacca

Progress

Group E

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Manchester City	6	6	0	0	22	4	+18	18
Roma	6	3	0	3	9	10	−1	9
Bayern Munich	6	2	0	4	8	18	−10	6
CSKA Moscow	6	1	0	5	8	15	−7	3

17 September 2014	Roma	3–1	CSKA Moscow	Stadio Centro d'Italia, Rieti
14:30	Calabresi  37' Verde  43' Adamo  55'	Report	Zhamaletdinov  7'	Referee: Alan Mario Sant (Malta)

30 September 2014	Manchester City	2–1	Roma	Ewen Fields, Hyde
15:00	Ntcham  64' Ambrose  71'	Report	Di Mariano  54'	Referee: Bojan Pandžić (Sweden)

21 October 2014	Roma	1–0	Bayern Munich	Campo Agostino Di Bartolomei, Rome
12:00	Adamo  5'	Report		Referee: Vasilis Dimitriou (Cyprus)

5 November 2014	Bayern Munich	3–2	Roma	Stadion an der Grünwalder Straße, Munich
14:30	Pantović  72' Hingerl  74' Calabresi  82' (o.g.)	Report	Sanabria  25', 69'	Referee: Athanasios Giachos (Greece)

25 November 2014	CSKA Moscow	0–2	Roma	Stadium Oktyabr, Moscow
11:30		Report	Di Livio  77' Verde  88' (pen.)	Referee: Nerijus Dunauskas (Lithuania)

10 December 2014	Roma	0–4	Manchester City	Campo Agostino Di Bartolomei, Rome
14:30		Report	Celina  71' Byrne  76' Ambrose  82' Barker  90+3'	Referee: Ján Valášek (Slovakia)

Associated clubs

AS Roma Primavera are associated with a lot of clubs and football schools in the local area, as well as across Italy and abroad. Most notably, the Totti Soccer School, L'Aquila and Serie D side, F.C. Rieti, whose home stadium Stadio Centro d'Italia – Manlio Scopigno is used by the Primavera for select matches including the UEFA Youth League.^[2]

Honours

Campionato Primavera:

• Winners (7): 1972–73, 1973–74, 1977–78, 1983–84, 1989–90, 2004–05, 2010–11

Coppa Italia Primavera:

• Winners (4): 1974, 1975, 1994, 2012

Supercoppa Primavera:

• Winners (1): 2012
  • Runners Up (2): 2005, 2011

Torneo di Viareggio:

• Winners (3): 1981, 1983, 1991
  • Runners Up (8): 1950, 1957, 1978, 1985, 1989, 1992, 2007, 2012

References