A.S. Roma Primavera

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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

A.S. Roma Primavera is the youth set-up of Italian club A.S. Roma. The team currently compete in the Campionato Nazionale Primavera Girone 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.

Players to have graduated from the A.S. 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
59 Romania GK Ionuț Pop
98 Italy GK Lorenzo Crisanto
Italy DF Matteo Belvisi
Italy DF Arturo Calabresi
Italy DF Michele Somma
91 Italy DF Riccardo Marchizza
95 Italy DF Elio Capradossi
Italy DF Andrea Paolelli
Italy DF Massimo Sammartino
51 Croatia DF Silvio Anocic
Italy DF Eros De Santis
Nigeria DF Nura Abdullahi
57 Equatorial Guinea MF Pepín
53 Italy MF Christian D'Urso
No. Position Player
Italy MF Matteo Adamo
Italy MF Simone Ricozzi
Italy MF Lorenzo Vasco
52 Italy MF Lorenzo Di Livio
Italy FW Tommaso Taviani
Italy FW Luca Damiani
Italy FW Francesco Di Mariano
Italy FW Nicholas De Santis
Italy FW Daniele Verde
Italy FW Jacopo Ferri
92 Italy FW Edoardo Soleri
93 Italy FW Marco Tumminello
Slovakia FW Tomáš Vestenický
Italy FW Aimone Calì

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
Italy GK Francesco Proietti Gaffi (at FeralpiSalò)
Italy MF Simone Battaglia (at Vigor Lamezia)
Italy FW Valerio Trani (at Torino)
No. Position Player
Sweden FW Valmir Berisha (at Panathinaikos)
Cameroon FW Franck Cedric Njiki Tchoutou (at Voluntari)

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 Italy GK Gabriele Marchegiani
2 Italy DF Eros De Santis
3 Croatia DF Silvio Anocic
4 Italy DF Arturo Calabresi
5 Italy DF Elio Capradossi
6 Italy MF Lorenzo Vasco
7 Italy FW Daniele Verde
8 Italy MF Lorenzo Pellegrini (Captain)
10 Italy MF Matteo Adamo
11 Italy FW Francesco Di Mariano
12 Romania GK Ionuț Pop
13 Italy DF Andrea Paolelli
14 Italy DF Stefano Ciavattini
15 Italy DF Riccardo Marchizza
16 Italy DF Matteo Belvisi
17 Albania MF Emanuele Ndoj
18 Italy MF Simone Ricozzi
19 Italy MF Lorenzo Di Livio
No. Position Player
20 Italy MF Christian D'Urso
21 Italy FW Nicholas De Santis
22 Equatorial Guinea MF Pepín
23 Italy GK Francesco Faiella
24 Slovakia FW Tomáš Vestenický
25 Italy FW Edoardo Soleri
26 Italy FW Aimone Calì
27 Italy FW Marco Tumminello
28 Italy MF Alessandro Bordin
29 Italy DF Irlian Ceka
30 Italy FW Francesco Di Nolfo
31 Italy MF Lorenzo Grossi
32 Italy MF Andrea Marcucci
33 Italy MF Emanuele Spinozzi
34 Italy DF Niccolò Tofanari
36 Italy GK Lorenzo Crisanto
Italy FW Tommaso Taviani
Italy FW Gianluca Scamacca
Romania FW Ionuț Vînă

Progress

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

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