Francesco Camarda: who is the guy with 485 goals in 89 games in Italian football

Football surprises in all its dimensions. At the highest level, the figures and performances of footballers like Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, almost in the epilogue of their careers. Or cases like Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbappé, who already stand out with just a handful of years as professionals and who intend to dispute the reign that -at some point- will leave vacant the 10th of the Argentine team that has just lifted the World Cup in Qatar. Also of those players who were part of the great past of this sport. But in football there are always stories of resonant players in their youth days, early appearances. And this is one of those cases. The adventure is that of Francesco Camarda. has only 14 years old, he is Italian, plays in the lower divisions of Milan and is already a ‘wallbreaker’ who comes looking for everything.

With amazing numbers, Francesco Camarda, born in Italy on March 10, 2008, already excites half of Milan. He’s still a kid, but 14 years old he added 485 goals in 89 games with the Rossonero team shirt. That number even gives rise to a reader’s doubt: “Wouldn’t it be the other way around?” No. It’s just like what he’s reading. An awesome average of 5.44 goals per game played.

Some goals from Francesco Camarda

It began its celebrations from the 2017/18 season with a total of 247 goals in 40 games!in the following course the festivities with the meetings decreased because it turned 172 times out of 31 matches. Furthermore, it closed with 64 goals in 16 crosses of the 2019/20 season.

Piero Colangelo is the person who signed this youngster to GDS Afforese, an academy that is part of AC Milan. About Camarda, he said: “As a kid he was already impressive, he looked like a miniature footballer. His case is unique.I have never met a boy with his qualities again. He was three years younger than the rest and scored lots of goals. There was no stopping him, whether he was playing as a winger or a striker. He had a powerful physique. It was a hurricane, ”he confessed to the outlet. Sprint e Sport.

But there was more about this boy who dazzles in Europe and who is already being compared to Erling Haaland, from Manchester City, and Youssoufa Moukoko, from Borussia Dortmund. Mauro Bianchessiformerly scouting for Milan youth players and now carrying out the same task, but in Lazio, reviewed Camarda’s beginnings in Milan News: “He came to prove himself in 2014, when he was only six years old. We signed it up two years later, in 2016. It is part of the last group I built in Milan. You have to let it grow but respecting its nature, its characteristics”, he expressed.

The “Bambino”, as Francesco is nicknamed, continues to grow by leaps and bounds in the youth divisions of the Rossonero. His dream of making his debut in Serie A with Milan seems to be getting closer and one of the reasons is that He is already training with AC Milan Primavera, Sub 19 team. The subsidiary team is coached by the former player of the club Ignazio Abate who put Camarda in a friendly against Solbiatese, a team from Eccellenza (the fifth division of Italian soccer) and the 14-year-old pre-adolescent did not shake his pulse: he was the author of two goals in a 4-2 win.

One of the keys to this promise happened last season. Camarda was decisive for the Sub 15 team Milan won the Scudetto. in that championship He scored 22 goals in 25 games played. In addition, he was key in the final, scoring the winning goal against Fiorentina, in the match that ended 1-0. In that championship, he was ‘Capocannoniere’ (top scorer) and also won the award for best footballer. In the current season, his streak continues overwhelmingly: in the tournament with the category Sub 16 has 11 goals in just eight games.

In addition to demonstrating during each presence wearing the Milan shirt, Francesco Camarda He already had to play for the Italy Under 15 team. And to make it clear that it is a serious thing, in his debut was dispatched with a hat-trick and he did them in just 23 minutes. Now, with the jersey of the selected Under 16 of the Azzurra, he also had a few minutes but without converting.

Camarda had as a football reference throughout his childhood and early adolescence to the Brazilian Kaká, former Milan player for seven seasons and also a multi-champion. But currently it is reflected in two footballers who wear the Rossenera jacket today.

One of them is the steering wheel Sandro Tonali. And the other, nothing more and nothing less than Zlatan Ibrahimovic with whom he shares his football resemblance due to his physique and power. In addition, he has a photo with the Swede on his Instagram profile, taken two years ago.

As if all this were not enough, the Adidas brand has already set its eyes on him and signed a contract with the youth team, thinking that Francesco could become an Italian star in the not too distant future.

Francesco Camarda is, without a doubt, the name of the future The name and the scorer to follow. It is reflected in his numbers and his personality at just 14 years old. And it is that football always surprises and leaves room for statistics that pose to be beaten. if one day they could Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, why can’t you think about Haaland, Mbappé or this Italian pre-teen that, at this rate, he is not far from fulfilling his dream of making his debut in Serie A to start retracing his path.

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