Gianluca Busio

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Gianluca Busio
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Gianluca Busio (2019)
Personnel
Surname Gianluca Cristiano Busio
birthday May 28, 2002
place of birth Greensboro ,  United States
size 170 cm
position Midfield , wings
Juniors
Years station
2015-2016 North Carolina merger
2016-2017 Sporting Kansas City
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2017– Sporting Kansas City 29 (4)
2018-2019 →  Swope Park Rangers  (farm team) 15 (1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2016-2017 United States U15 8 (3)
2017– United States U17 15 (8)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: February 9, 2020

2 As of October 27, 2019

Gianluca Cristiano Busio (* 28. May 2002 in Greensboro , North Carolina ) is an American football player of Italian descent, who in the MLS - Franchise Sporting Kansas City has a contract. The midfielder has been a US U17 international since November 2017 .

Career

society

Gianluca Busio was born in Greensboro , North Carolina and is the son of an Italian father, who was born in the Lombard city ​​of Brescia , and an African-American mother. He started playing football at the age of three and played in the youth teams of Greensboro United and North Carolina Fusion before joining the youth division of Sporting Kansas City in the summer of 2016 . On 25 August 2017 he signed with 15 years of a Homegrown Player -Vertrag in the MLS - franchise , which he after Freddy Adu became the youngest player in 2004 who signed a contract in the highest American league. On April 5, 2018 (4th matchday), Busio made his debut for the Swope Park Rangers , the Sportings farm team , in the United Soccer League . In the home game against the Colorado Springs Switchbacks he started and prepared Tyler Blackwood's winning goal for the 1-0 final result.

At the end of May 2018, he was also listed in the Sporting Kansas City squad for the first time. His debut in Major League Soccer followed on June 29 (22nd matchday) in a 3-2 home defeat by FC Dallas , when he came on for Felipe Gutiérrez in the 77th minute . A week later he was in the starting line-up against Houston Dynamo and prepared the winning goal for the 1-0 away win. As a result, at the age of 16, he was already a substitute. On October 18 (34th matchday) he scored his first league goal in a 4-1 away win against the Vancouver Whitecaps , making him the second youngest scorer in the MLS behind Freddy Adu. The Game 2018 ended Busio with a goal and an assist in seven league appearances.

In the following 2019 season he established himself as a regular representative in the starting line-up of head coach Peter Vermes . On March 30, 2019 (5th matchday) he scored his first goal of the season in a 7-1 home win against Montreal Impact and he also scored in the next two games against new league FC Cincinnati and the New York Red Bulls in the next two games a hit. These three goals should remain his only one this season, in which he was used in 22 league games.

National team

Gianluca Busio played for the United States U15 national team .

With the U17 , he took part in the U17 World Cup in Brazil in autumn 2019 , where he was used in all three group matches of the selection. He scored his only goal in the tournament in the 4-1 loss to Senegal .

Web links

Commons : Gianluca Busio  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gianluca Busio, il futuro del calcio USA dall'animo italiano In: MLS Italia of April 27, 2018 (accessed February 7, 2020)
  2. ↑ a b Player bio - Gianluca Busio In: US Soccer (accessed February 9, 2020)
  3. ↑ Profile of Gianluca Busio In: US Soccer Development Academy (accessed February 9, 2020)
  4. ↑ Sporting KC Makes Busio, 15, Second-Youngest Signing in MLS History In: Sports Illustrated, August 25, 2017 (accessed February 9, 2020)
  5. ↑ Swope Park Rangers 1-0 Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC In: Internet Archive (accessed February 9, 2020)
  6. ↑ a b c Gianluca Busio - performance data 2018 In: transfermarkt.at (accessed on February 9, 2020)
  7. ↑ Sporting KC 2-3 FC Dallas In: Sky Sports from July 29, 2018 (accessed February 9, 2020)
  8. ↑ Sporting KC's Gianluca Busio becomes 3rd-youngest player to start MLS game In: Sporting Kansas City on August 5, 2018 (accessed February 9, 2020)
  9. ↑ Houston Dynamo 0-1 Sporting KC In: ESPN, August 5, 2018 (accessed February 9, 2020)
  10. ↑ Goal: Gianluca Busio, 16-year-old homegrown player, scores first MLS goal In: Major League Soccer, October 18, 2018 (accessed February 9, 2020)
  11. ↑ Gianluca Busio becomes second-youngest goal scorer in MLS history In: Sporting Kansas City on October 18, 2018 (accessed February 9, 2020)
  12. ↑ a b Gianluca Busio - performance data 2019 In: transfermarkt.at (accessed on February 9, 2020)
  13. ↑ Sporting KC become only 5th team in MLS history to score 7 goals in a game In: Major League Soccer on March 30, 2019 (accessed on February 9, 2020)
  14. ↑ Beyond The Box Score: Gianluca Busio becomes the youngest ever to score in back-to-back regular season matches In: Sporting Kansas City, April 7, 2019 (accessed February 9, 2020)
  15. ↑ Star is born: Sporting KC's Gianluca Busio scores in third straight game In: Major League Soccer from April 15, 2019 (accessed February 9, 2020)
  16. ↑ Head Coach Raphael Wicky Names USA Roster for 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Brazil In: US Soccer from October 10, 2019 (accessed February 9, 2020)
  17. ↑ Gianluca Busio - USA U17 In: transfermarkt.at (accessed on February 9, 2020)
  18. ↑ USA 1-4 Senegal In: FIFA, October 27, 2019 (accessed February 9, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Busio, Gianluca
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Busio, Gianluca Cristiano (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 2002
PLACE OF BIRTH Greensboro , North Carolina , United States