The first coach tells Camarda: “With the ball he did what he wanted”

Massimo D’Amaro says Francesco Camarda. The head of the Afforese football school spoke to the notebooks of SportWeek of Milan’s talent: “I’ve been training children for almost twenty years: if you do the math, I’ll have seen fifteen hundred of them – began the coach -. Camarda is the strongest of all. He only spent one season with us, but it was enough because we all understood that he was different from the others. If I have to describe him in one word, I would use ‘flair’. He did what he wanted with the ball, he scored in any way.

Most children this young inevitably let it slip away. Camarda no: he kept it attached to his foot. He was also different physically, taller and bigger than the others. He played five against five, obviously without predefined roles or schemes. But we had one. Or rather, it was Camarda who had it in his head: to give the ball to him who would score goals.

Francesco was made for football. In addition to his feet, he also has the right head – he concluded -. And I would let him breathe the air of the first team straight away: training and going on the bench there, rather than in the U23s, would be good for him. Already in the Primavera he plays three years under age, yet he makes the difference. There’s no point in delaying your inclusion among the greats.”