Arriving in Bologna in 2021 after negotiations followed by Walter Sabatini and Riccardo Bigon, Kacper Urbanski is now one of the youngest resources on the rossoblù bench. After growing up in Poland, the young talent discovered Bologna at just 16 years old, with his family in tow, and under the blessing of Sinisa Mihajlovic. Casteldebole immediately noticed the qualities of the 2004-born player, first exploited in the Primavera championship and then increasingly used to enrich the selection of the rossoblù first team.
Yesterday, in Monza, Urbanski probably found the missing piece in his maturation path. If the call to the senior national team had already arrived, the first goal in Serie A had not yet arrived. No sooner said than done: in his first start in this championship, Urbanski not only responded present to Italiano’s choice by shining on the Monza pitch, but he also scored the goal of the first rossoblù lead. His header on a Lykogiannis cross in fact opened the scoring of Monza-Bologna, giving an important jolt to his teammates in terms of motivation and attitude.
Uncontainable joy for the Polish player who has a “big brother” in the team to follow: Lukasz Skorupski, with whom Urbanski has already shared the experience of being called up to the senior national team. Yesterday, on the bench to make room for Ravaglia, Skorupski supported his teammate, celebrated his first goal and was incredulous, a few minutes later, when the 2004-born player almost doubled the lead with a shot from the edge of the box that went just wide to the right of Turati.
In short, Urbanski’s seems to be a nice story with a happy ending in the shadow of Casteldebole, where in the last period mister Italiano has made it clear that everyone will be needed, due to the rotations required for the Champions League commitments. He, Urbanski, has already understood how to take advantage of his opportunities.