Inter’s future looks very promising as a record breaking 26 youth players were called up for international duty from August to today.
Here is the list of the youngsters who have been called up:
Italy U16: Andrea Adorante, Davide Bettella, Salvatore Esposito, Lorenzo Gavioli, Davide Grassini, Davide Merola and Thomas Schirò are in line to play back to back friendlies against Switzerland. Nicola Tintori and Elia Visconti were picked for the FIFA tournament in Moscow.
Italy U18: Alessandro Mattioli has been called up for a friendly against the Czech Republic.
Belgium U17: Zinho Vanheusden will hope to feature in three European Championship qualification matches against Slovenia, the Faroe Islands and Turkey.
Belgium U19: Senna Miangue is in the squad for a friendly against KSV Roeselare.
Czech Republic U18: Dominik Smekal has been picked for a friendly against Italy.
Slovenia U17: Luka Kerin has been selected for a European Championship qualification game.
The following players have already picked up minutes on the pitch with their countries:
Italy U17: Andrea Pinamonti and Federico Valietti played at the St George’s Park Tournament 2015 hosted by the English FA.
Italy U19: Federico Di Marco, Fabio Della Giovanna (who was unable to play because of injury) and Enrico De Micheli were included in the squads that played Holland and Ireland.
Albania U17: Frenci Qeros took part in a training camp that was followed by a friendly.
Brazil U17: Matias Antonini Lui featured in a training camp in Rio de Janeiro, followed by the Suwon Cup in South Korea.
Ireland U17: Ryan Patrick Nolan was in the squad for back to back friendlies against Hungary.
Portugal U19: Pedro Delgado was selected in the squads that contested European Championship qualification games against Switzerland and Spain.
Source: inter.it
Now if only a youth product would become a great player for inter. Most of them wind up overhyped for no reason.
sometimes, they were overhyped by the media and the fans.. it’s not good to put so much pressure to a young kid.. even messi in his young age start from the bench, until he was ready.. look at kova!? no doubt he has a great talent, but our fans and media always praise him like he was in the messi level already.. and that’s wrong, because it will kill his developement by putting to much pressure for him.. he need time and should start from the bench untill he has the right mentality to be a starter.. just my opinion my friend.. ^^
Kovacic had too much fan love. He thought he would always be a starter until mancio benched him and guess what? When he said he had enough of playing around and would fight for a starting positon, he became a starter again and played well. He had the luxury of being a spoiled fan favourite. We all spoiled him.
yeah.. because for years we longing for young talent, and he was the one.. i adore him too, but i tend to hold my self to overhyped a young talent because it will ruin his life.. some kids need room to explore himself without too many spotlight.. btw kova has gone, my hope are kondo, gnou, telles or even juan can make a real progress this season..
Newton’s 3rd law aside, i do feel proud already of Thohir’s commitment to build the youth team. The way it seems to bear many fruits and good ones at that.