Yesterday 90 minutes against France, 3 minutes against Austria and 55 minutes against Holland in the opening match: in summary this is the European Championship of Kacper Urbanski, 20 years old in September. Who is Urbanski? Kacper is one of the elements of the House of Cinni of Casteldebole, a nursery which, after years, has begun to produce good elements, who are little by little blossoming among the first team and the national teams.
Kacper arrives in Bologna in 2021 as a midfielder with polite feet. He worked his way through the rossoblù youth team, renewed his contract last July, and, last season, became one of the players on whom Motta began to focus. He plays about twenty games, between starter and substitute, also used as a tall left winger, although he is not a tall winger. And yesterday, at not even twenty years of age, he played as a starter alongside His Majesty Lewandoski, his third match of his first European Championship.
House of Cinni is not just Urbanski
And if Urbanski has almost four years of Castelweacenza citizenship, there are players who grew up at the Bologna Technical Center, because they are children of the metropolitan city of the two towers. In order Federico “Chicco” Ravaglia and Tommaso Corazza. You can meet Chicco in the corridors of Casteldebole since 2016, also a goalkeeper for many rossoblù youth teams and then a long wandering.
Sudtitol, Gubbio, Frosinone and Reggina are the places where he has defended the posts in recent years: he plays well but, at the end of the season, he always returns home, like last summer. Then the metamorphosis, the coach’s trust and this big boy of almost two meters plays 8 games (6 in the league and 2 in the Cup), taking the pleasure of saving two penalties. Federico is reborn and today he is a number two who aspires to be (and has what it takes) to be a good number one. He’ll figure out the rest on his own.
Tommaso was self-made
But after Kacper and Chicco, this past season was also Tommaso Corazza’s season. A 2004, son of Daniele (but nepotism has nothing to do with this), who actually crossed the gates of the Rossoblù Technical Center for the first time in 2009. Since then Tommaso has grown and grown until he made his debut in the first team and scored his first goal in the Italian Cup, under his coach, Bugarelli, last August.
But the list could grow
Kacper, Federico and Tommaso can now dream big: the Champions League is coming to Bologna. But they are not alone and the list is destined to grow: Ebone Tommaso, 29 games played in the Primavera with 11 goals and Wisdom Amey, captain of the Primavera, with a debut in Serie A at 15 years and nine months. Tommaso and Wisdom are already in Mister Corradi’s U19 team, like Castaldo Francesco, an Under17 team we will hear about soon.
We’ll stop here, but there would still be a lot to say about our youth sector, which is starting to produce players “to be proud of” again.
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