Francesco Camarda could well get more senior minutes tonight in AC Milan’s away game against Udinese, and he is getting more ready by the week.
With Santiago Gimenez not involved in the game at the Stadio Friuli due to having a sore side, Camarda has been called up and will almost certainly start the game on the bench. Tammy Abraham is tipped to lead the line, with Luka Jovic also a substitute option.
A clip has surfaced from Milanello showing that the 17-year-old is getting more prepared for what adult football will throw at him. He shrugs off Strahinja Pavlovic’s pressure, maintains control of the ball and fires a rocket of a shot while slightly off-balance.
Francesco Camarda in training… pic.twitter.com/7gW4YsIMhR
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Are they told to take it easy in training? That ball was exposed for close to 2 seconds and if Pav just stuck a leg out he’d have gotten the ball. Sorry guys, I’m not on Camarda’s side on this one. It’s either he’s that good or he’s overhyped and it seems like the latter to me. For all the times I’ve see him with the first team, he’s been ordinary and I think I’m being objective here. It’s one thing to play with kids and be amazing and it’s another thing to be amazing when you come up against men. The kid is good but not as good as the hype. Maybe with more minutes I’ll finally see why he’s so hyped but from all I’ve seen so far, this guy could turn out to be another Pietro Pellegri.
Also, it’s a forum where you can express your “opinions.” I’m saying this for some certain individuals who have no restraint 🙂
Personally I have no issues with you having your opinion as only time will tell if he becomes the player we all hope for him to become but Camarda has for years been playing over his own age like 2 years above his own age bracket and scored an incredible amount of goals like 500 goals in roughly 100 youth matches. Obviously he will never end up having as good a goal tally of 5 goals pr. match as he has had with the youth teams but he can nevertheless still become a world class act. Pietro Pellegri or any other player we have had in our ranks has to my knowledge never mustered the same % of goals scored pr. match as he has so as things stands he is still fairly incomparable even if he hasn’t yet started to score goals for the first team.
You know I just feel like the only way for him to become what we all hope he would become is for him to leave Milan. I don’t know why it’s happening to us but this Milan is not like the Milan of the past and any kid who decides to stay here hoping to one day get into the first team may end up disappointed. Just look at the likes of Barthesaghi, or that keeper who was so good with his feet in preseason, or Liberalli. Maybe if we had Hansi they’d be getting minutes but as it stands, they usually waste their careers with us only to be shipped out on a free in later seasons. Going back to Camarda, I do wish for him to be that striker that Italy has lacked for a long time but I don’t see him becoming that while with us. The bought the striker from PSV, and they may buy another in panic so I don’t see a clear path for Camarda to get into the first team.
Its always a risk but to be fair not many big teams will give a teen the minutes he nevertheless has played for us. The kid has just turned 17 in march and also played some last season when he hadn’t even turned 16. Not every player will be a Yamine Yamal instantly becoming a success so I wouldn’t worry too much as of things stands. When that is said I would be more intrigued to see Liberali than for example Felix.
And yet we’re still talking about a 17 year old. People think that 17 year olds who score 15 goals per season as starting strikers are common. They’re not. But as you said, he needs playing time. As a 17 year old who hasn’t lit up Serie C this season, let alone Serie A, I think he would be well served to play next season full time for a Serie C club, whether that’s Futuro or not, that will guarantee him a starting spot. Then if he scores 10-15 goals, he should play for a Serie B team, until he scores another 10-15 goals in a season. Once that’s done he can be properly promoted to the first team. Sitting on the 1st team bench and yo-yoing between that and Futuro is not doing him any favors.
Give him the chances what CDK got and let’s see. It’s marathon not a race.
to be fair, he grew fast. so, he was as big as the two year older boys, therefore this argument counts only half. what counts a lot more for me, is that he seem to be a grounded boy. i even think it was very important that he didnt score in Serie A this season, cause if he’d became the youngest ever goalscorer everyone knows how italian media would have praised him to the moon just to ruin him a bit later. i really hope Sergio wins the last few games and is allowed to stay and implement a 4-4-2 which could include Camarda as regular sub
Well he is 1.83 not especially tall for the age of 16 or 17 year olds not small either but just pointing it out.
I feel sorry for camarda and the perosn that ,ade this post….
Just let Pavlovic have him as an opponent… he will packet him like a toy