Our clubs often lack the courage to focus on young people to go on safe seconds (such as Modric and Dzeko) but in the group of Nunziata there are several players who can have a great future: on all Luca Koleosho, has four passports, speeds and dribbling, plays in Burnley and can be the star of the next world championship
There is an obvious problem in the Italian cast that is highlighted every year more and that we cannot solve: The major national team cannot express quality players, although new talents arrive from the youth teams and also important results.
The last example is theUnder 21 that Carmine Nunziata is guiding to the European Championships category, qualification already obtained after the first two wins and playoffs with Spain for the victory in the group. A group of guys who come from the successes with the Under 19 and the Under 20 and in which a data stands out: what you are from this group are playing or have played in foreign clubs despite the very young age. The last to pack it is Diego Coppolasold from Verona to Brighton for 11 million more bonuses, is it possible that no important clubs in our Serie A thought about these figures? Mysteries of the transfer market, but Coppola is not the only young promising of our Serie A who will play abroad next year.
Lorenzo Pirola After two excellent seasons with Salernitana ended up in Greece, at Olympiacos e Michael Kayode Band outside with an impressive power in the summer of 2024 did not convince the Fiorentina technical staff who gave him to Brentford for 18 million. Then there is Wilfried Gnunto Which with Mancini CT was summoned by the major national team, which made the whole pierce in Inter’s youth but then in 2020 it was sold to Zurich and from 2022 he played with Leeds. More or less the same road followed by Cesare Casadeiwho was reported as one of the best young talents of his age and that Inter, in economic difficulties during the management of Steven Zhang, ceded to Chelsea for about 20 million in the summer of 2022 and which then had been shot first at the reading and then to Leicester. Casadei was part of the group of the first Blues team in the first part of the 2024-2025 season and then returned to Italy in January, purchased by Turin which now focuses strongly on him.
Then there is the very particular case of Cher ndourwho is not yet 21 years old and who after the youth with Brescia was purchased by Benfica at the age of sixteen and then had important experiences with PSG, Braga and Besiktas before returning to Italy to Fiorentina. But the player on whom many are ready to bet is Luca Koleoshowho in Italy has never played but wears the blue Under 21 shirt because despite being born in the United States it is naturalized Italian. Koleosho started in Trumbull United, then went to Manhattan Kickers and then chose Spain passing first to Reus and then at Epanyol and then landed at Burnely in the summer of 2023. He has four passports, he has African blood, North American, European, has speed and an exciting dribbling. He is not yet 21 years old and can be one of the 2026 World Cup stars (as long as Italy qualifies).
It is evident that there are not many clubs that decide to focus strong on young people, as shown by the transfers abroad we have spoken of. In the group of Nunziata there is however (and thank goodness …) a group of players that we could say has already established himself in our Serie A, we talk about Matteo Ruggeri of Atalanta, Jacopo Fazzini of Empoli, Niccolò Pisilli of Rome, Matteo Prati of Cagliari e Tommaso Baldanzi of Rome.
But the courage is missing to risk young players to the point that very often the experience is favored, even going to take players close to 40 years. With all due respect for Luka Modric And Edwin Dzekothe choices of Milan and Fiorentina to focus on the Croatian midfielder and on the Bosnian attacker go precisely in the direction of focusing more on the second
