Francesco Camarda, the 14-year-old player destined to break records: he has scored more than 500 goals in a hundred games

While we all wonder if Lionel Messi will play in the 2026 World Cup or how many more World Cups Kylian Mbappé will say, few of us realize what figures we can see in the next World Cup. Futurology involved, Francesco Camarda is a name to consider in the following years of world football.

Last Wednesday Francesco made headlines again for his precocious goalscoring at AC Milan. At just 14 years old -turned in March-, the attacker made his debut with the Rossoneri’s Primavera team, category players up to five years older than the ‘9’, and he did it at full goal.

In a friendly match at Primavera AC Milan against Solbiatese (of the Fifth division), Francesco scored a double for the 4-2 victory of his team. And not only that, he also made his debut for the Italian Under 16s in a match against Austria, where he showed all his ability despite not scoring.

Although he appears in the AC Milan Under 15 squad -he started the season scoring 4 goals in three games-, Francesco Camarda plays in the Under 16, where it has been recorded that he already has 11 goals in eight games this season.

And then there are the numbers that already wowed the world when they were released late last year. More than 480 goals in less than 90 games from 2017 to 2020, until the pandemic paralyzed the world.

• 4 goals – 3 games – Sub 15
• 11 goals – 8 games – Sub 16

These figures were released by the French statistician F. Pagani on his social networks at the end of last year. To these we complement those of this season.

Franceso has been at AC Milan for five years. Before him, he trained at GSD Afforese, a Milanese club dedicated to training soccer players. Coach Piero Colangelo took him there in 2013. “Everything Franceso has done is exclusively thanks to him. That day I was stunned to see him, he already looked like a miniature footballer. His case is absolutely unique, I have never met guys with his qualities again. He was three years younger than the rest and scored goals by handfuls. There was no one to stop him, whether he was playing as a winger or a striker. He had a powerful physique. It was a hurricane, ”he recounted in an interview with the portal“ Sprint e Sport ”.

It was for the 2015-16 season that Milan became interested when Francesco was only 7 years old and impressing those who watched him train. At that age he had already convinced the Adidas brand to sponsor him, while he left kick boxing just as a hobby. His dream: “To debut in Serie A with the AC Milan shirt”, as he told Sprint e Sport, who described the boy as a player “with personality, character and very intelligent”.

Mauro Bianchessi was in charge of taking him to Milan and today he only has one piece of advice. “Let it grow.” So he told how they signed this child prodigy. “Francesco Camarda was examined in 2014 when he was 6 years old at our soccer school. We signed it at the age of 8 in 2016. The observers who reported it were Maná and Vallelonga. Francesco is part of the last group I built in Milan, but I let it grow with the lights off.

Like every child, he has idols. He admired Kaká, winner of everything with Milan, he has Zlatan Ibrahimovic as a reference even in his taste for martial arts, but his great idol is Karim Benzema, so much so that he often plays with a bandage on his right wrist as the attacker does French.

Thus, we are on the verge of seeing a new crack if he is confirmed in the next steps he takes. It is known of many calls as ‘the future’ of football but that failed to consolidate. But there are also successful cases, such as Moukoko, who scored 192 goals in 123 games with the Dortmund Academy and was in the World Cup, like Musiala himself, Bellingham, among others.

Source: Elcomercio

Alexander

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