PINZOLO – Today is Day One of F.C. Internazionale's 2011 pre-season training camp. There are already a host of Nerazzurri fans here in Pinzolo (over a thousand) in the designated area next to the Stadio Pineta. The excitement is growing and tomorrow, Saturday 9 July, at 17:00 the first training session with 11 of the best young players in Europe will take place.
The players are:
19-year-old striker Luc Castaignos, one of the brightest up-and-coming young stars in European football. He scored 15 times in 37 appearances for Feyenoord. He's a Dutch international player and has scored 25 goals in 34 youth matches and this is his first training session with his new team;
Goalkeepers Raffaele Di Gennaro and Francesco Bardi, who have both been called up to Italy squads in youth categories. Bardi has played for the Italy under-21 team and is considered by everyone as the emerging goalkeeping talent, following his extraordinary performance in the Viareggio Tournament, which Fulvio Pea's Inter Primavera team won;
The defenders are Matteo Bianchetti, Italy Under-18 and, from the Italy Under-21 team, Luca Caldirola, Marco Davide Faraoni and the Under-20 Italy player Felice Natalino, who has already played 3 times for the Inter first team, making his Serie A debut on 28 November 2010 during Inter v Parma and also has a UEFA Champions League appearance;
Talented Italo-Brazilian attacking midfielder Daniel Bessa, and Lorenzo Crisetig, who is now 21, but holds the record for the youngest player to take part in an Under-21 match (at the ripe old age of 16).
Striker Denis Alibec, the 21-year-old Romanian who captained the Inter Primavera team that won last season's Viareggio Tournament and was part of Inter's first team squad, making his Serie A debut in Verona against Chievo (21 November 2010) and his second league appearance against Lazio on 3 December 2010; along with Alibec, 19-year-old centre forward Samuele Longo, who played for Piacenza in Serie B before signing for Inter and playing for Genoa last season.
Looks interesting, cant wait to watch them all!!
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