Francesco Camarda has the weight of the nation on his back, whilst also having to match the ambition that AC Milan has for him. However, there is a plan to allow the starlet to naturally ‘evolve’.
Talk of Camarda’s talent is nothing new, and his involvement in Paulo Fonseca’s team is more a question of when, not if. Today, Gazzetta dello Sport comments on the matter, stating that he is attached to Milan, and the fact he already has taken on the role of a first team member – signing autographs and taking photos – shows he is growing.
On Tuesday, he is expected to join the Champions League group after taking part in training with the senior team – at the very least he will take to the bench at 16 years and 226 days old. An early fulfiment of destiny, but very much on course of the Rossoneri’s plan.
Mentally, the 16-year-old has shown signs of the right path, given he has already taken on the life of a serious professional, understanding what must be done to grow and listening to his peers.
Today, Morata led Camarda onto the training pitches with his arm around the youngster, a welcome embrace, and a sign of endorsement for the youngster, and a show of support for the striker who has the weight of his world on his shoulders.
The striker displays maturity, and his experience with the Futuro is showing himself that he still has a way to go before he is ready to lead the Diavolo forward personally. Nevertheless, opportunities like the one which could be proivded tomorrow will not be turned down. Instead, he will grasp them with both hands, allowing himself to experience a dream, with no pressure on his shoulders.
After all, the boy is growing into a man, and Milan believe they are firmly on the right track, with the youngster growing at ‘furious pace’.
Who cares. He will be sold as soon as possible to the highest bidder if he is as good as they say.
He’s technically on loan to us until his price increases to a reasonable amount.
Plan?
LOL.
The plan is to continue signing at least one or more striker every season for the next 20 years like we have for the past 20.
And the crowd called out for more.
The Procol Harum reference is majestic.
But yes. All these starlets will be sold so we can bring in Tammy Abrahams and other mismatched parts
Camarda has not scored a single goal in open play for Milan Futuro in Serie C after 10 match days. He just had one goal taking a PK. In the latest match against the last-placed team (20th), Legnano Salus, a game 19th-placed Futuro managed to lose 1-3, Camarda was barely able to touch the ball, and received a low score from raters.
Camarda is 16. The players in Serie C who play against Milan Futuro are grown men. Camarda struggles enormously when he plays against grown men in Serie C. What makes people think that he will do well against grown men in Serie A? The reality is that he will do even worse: still against grown men, but better Serie A grown men with more skills.
Camarda plays a lot better for Italy’s U19 Azzurrini. Why? Because there, he plays against players who are closer to his age group.
When will people understand that a 16-year-old rarely has sufficient body weight and muscle development (and experience) to compete with grown men who have several pounds of muscle and several years of experience more than they have???
Camarda needs to be LEFT ALONE to continue his development. He has no business playing for the first team when he can’t even do well in Serie C. Let’s allow him to continue to have lots of minutes with Milan Futuro, where he is not under the microscope and is not stressed out. Eventually he will evolve, develop more muscle mass, and become a first team player; but not yet.
All of this is just putting an enormous burden on his young shoulders.
People say “oh but Barcelona has Yamal playing for their first team and for the senior Spain National Team.” Yes. They do. But unfortunately, Camarda is no Yamal. Camarda is very good and one day may become as good or even better than Yamal, but he is not there yet. Yamal is a once-in-a-generation player, and he is the exception rather than the rule. The rule is that the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of 16-year-olds struggle when they play against grown men.
66 years ago a 17-year-old player named Pele won the 1958 World Cup with the Brazil senior National Team. He was another once-in-a-generation exception. It took Brazil all of 66 years (!!!) to produce another exception, Endrick, who has played some minutes for the Brazil National Team at age 17, and now he is 18 and got sold to Real Madrid. However, Endrick hasn’t done much for the Brazilian squad, and hasn’t done much for Real Madrid. Ancelotti says he still needs lots of help; Ancelotti only gave to Endrick very limited garbage time minutes. And see, Endrick is not only two years older than Camarda, but is also a lot stronger in terms of muscle development than Camarda, and is also more mature in personal terms (he actually just got married to his long-term girlfriend; he is much closer to being a man rather than a boy; Camarda is a boy). Still, Endrick continues to struggle against grown men and is easily bumped to the grown by big center backs. Endrick is way readier than Camarda but still struggles.
Let’s stop this nonsense of asking Camarda to play for our first team, lest we’ll ruin him.
Look, I’m not against giving him 10 minutes in a game against a Serie A or Coppa Italia bottom feeder when the score is 4-0 for us. That’s perfectly fine, just to give him a taste of it, every several weeks; but that’s all. Should he play against a Champions League team? Hell, no! Unless it’s for the last 5 minutes if we’re leading 5-0 (which is unlikely; Club Brugge is no pushover).
Regarding Futuro players, Zeroli, Bartesaghi and even Liberali seem to me to be readier than Camarda.
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As for all this paranoia expressed by other posters here that we’ll sell Camarda at the first opportunity as soon as the price is right, I don’t think so. I think he is being groomed to eventually integrate our first team, and I believe that the hope of the club is that he will play for us for several years (this is helped by the fact that Camarda is a life-long Milanista who wants to stay with Milan and wants to continue to live in Milano). Whether or not this will be the case, remains to be seen, but I don’t think Milan is in a big hurry to sell him.
The fact that we hired an older striker (Morata) and got a loaned striker (Abraham) actually suggests that these are place holders until Camarda develops. It would be very silly to sell Camarda prematurely. Yes, our management has a knack for doing stupid things, but I hope and actually believe that in the case of Camarda, they won’t be that stupid.
Ok wise man. The fact is people writing on this blog matter to his development just as much your opinion does..so save the lecture..
You are right you are wrong also if his really good like the media says he was definitely age will show some physical attributes but on ball we going to see his class we have seen a lot of 16 years old taking matches to their accolades
Yamal Messi mbappe halland and lot more let’s just hope his good as the media says his good
– (this is helped by the fact that Camarda is a life-long Milanista who wants to stay with Milan and wants to continue to live in Milano) –
And what happened with Tonali?
Quite similar wasn’t it?
Cutrone too. Played for the club since little kid and shipped out when the first offer arrived.
Well that’s because Camarda is playing against grown men alongside other kids.
If Carmada was at least playing with grown men (rather than dumped in a kids team in Serie C playing against grown men) he might have a chance.
And he could be left alone (in the Primavera team). That’s what Primavera teams are for. To leave kids to play with kids out of the limelight. We didn’t need a whole new team for kids with all of the song and dance that dragged them prematurely into the limelight, and then set them up to fail.
We should have just kept these players in the Primavera, kept a tight first team squad with focused, quality signings, and then those Primavera players could have had opportunities to play with grown men, in Serie A, against other grown men.
That’s a fairly good point.
Makes one wonders how this Futuro team was planned exactly.