Stefano Bonomo

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Stefano Bonomo
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Stefano Bonomo (2015)
Personnel
birthday January 25, 1993
place of birth Hillsborough , California ,  USA
size 188 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
2002-2008 Burlingame Juventus
2007-2008 Cal-North (ODP)
2008-2011 De Anza Force Soccer Club
2008-2011 Burlingame High School
2011-2014 California Golden Bears
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2015– New York Red Bulls II 11 (3)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
~ 2011 ~ USA U-18
1 Only league games are given.
As of December 29, 2015

Stefano Bonomo (born January 25, 1993 in Hillsborough , California ) is an American - Italian soccer player who has been a striker since 2015 in the New York Red Bulls II , the farm team of the New York Red Bulls .

Career

Career start

Stefano Bonomo was born on January 25, 1993 to Paolo and Louise Bonomo in the small town of Hillsborough , between San Francisco and Palo Alto or San José , in the US state of California . Both his father and grandfather, through whom he also has Italian citizenship, were once professional skiers who belonged to the Italian national team. From 2002 he played for the local youth football club Burlingame Juventus from his hometown Burlingame , with which he won the national championship title in 2004. He was part of the team up to and including 2008 and also played for the Cal-North team in the Olympic Development Program (ODP) of the United States Youth Soccer Association from 2007 to 2008 . From 2008 he was also a member of the De Anza Force Soccer Club , which prepares players specifically for a later college career and has a 95 percent quota for future college players. In the team he was a participant in the US Soccer Development Academy Market Training Centers until 2011 .

Between the ages of nine and 14, he was trained mainly by his father Paolo. Also from 2008 he was a member of the school’s soccer team at Burlingame High School and from 2008/09 was already a starter in the school selection. After he appeared for the team in 2008 and 2009 and put in a game-free season in 2010 in order to concentrate on his missions at De Anza Force SC , he led the team in 2011 as co-captain and was also named San Mateo in this position County Boys Soccer Player of the Year and MVP Awarded. The central midfielder also scored 16 goals in his senior year, played for the championship with the team and was named Peninsula Athletic League Bay Midfielder of the Year that year. At the beginning of this year, he was called up for the first time in a US junior selection when he took part in the training camps for the United States U-18s in February and April 2011.

Transfer to the University of California, Berkeley

Like his maternal grandparents, Ben and Mayon Ichinose, Stefano Bonomo also joined the University of California, Berkeley , in 2011 , on a scholarship. There he started his freshman year only as a substitute player and made 14 championship appearances, of which he did not start in a single one or stood on the lawn for the full game and remained without a scorer point. The following game year 2012, his sophomore year, left, however, already much more successful. He was used in 15 league games, twelve of which he was on the field from the start, and scored five goals for his team, making him, together with Anthony Salciccia, one of the two leaders of the team's internal goalscorer list. In addition to elections for player of the week he received end of the season and an honorable mention ( honorable mention ) the All-Pac-12 .

The 2013 game year, his junior year, he was able to increase his stakes again and brought it to 21 championship games, 17 of which he was on the grass from the start, and also had a record of six goals and three assists. With the team he ranked in the league operation of the Pac-12 in the final ranking in third place behind the runner-up UCLA Bruins , the sports department of the University of California, Los Angeles and the master Washington Huskies , the sports department of the University of Washington . After completing the playing time, the team was also set for the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship 2013 and made it to the quarter-finals in the knockout phase of Regional 2 , where it was only just lost 2-1 against the competitors of the Maryland Terrapins . In this last game Bonomo also managed the only goal of his team, where he scored the goal to equalize 1: 1 and only had to accept the opponent's final goal shortly before the end of the game. He was also elected to the All-Pac-12-Second-Team that year.

The Italian-born offensive player advanced to a top scorer in his senior year 2014, when he played in 17 league games, of which he started in 15, scoring twelve goals and preparing another five for his teammates. In the Pac-12, the California Golden Bears , the name of the sports department, only made it to fourth place in the final ranking. Notable this game year was, among other things, his use against the Cleveland State Vikings , when he scored a hat trick in a game and prepared another goal for his teammates. In the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship 2014 , the University of California, Berkeley was just 15th of 16 teams seeded and lost 3-2 to their local rivals in the knockout phase of Regional 2 in the third round , University of California, Los Angeles. In the second round game, a 1-0 win over Southern Illinois University Edwardsville , he did the preparatory work for Bobby Sekines winning goal. At the end of the season he was elected to the All-Pac-12-First-Team together with his teammates Connor Hallisey and Seth Casiple for his achievements over the entire season . Over his entire career in college soccer , Stefano Bonomo had a record of 67 championship games, 23 hits and eight assists; he was also a three-time letterman . This year was also invited to the MLS Combine for 2015.

Start into professional football

Via the MLS SuperDraft 2015 , Bonomo was drafted as the 39th pick in the second round for the New York Red Bulls in early 2015 . He had, however, already available at this time offers for tryouts at European clubs, he decided in the US is no contract to sign and try his luck in Europe, and he sample workouts at the Polish second division Miedz Legnica and the English second division side Sheffield Wednesday completed . After he could not convince at either club and training with the Italian third division club SPAL Ferrara was unsuccessful, he returned to his homeland and tried again with the New York Red Bulls.

After a successful trial, he was the end of July 2015 the New York Red Bulls II , which also occur with professional status farm team of the MLS teams, was added. He made his professional debut on August 2, 2015 in a 2-1 home win over Saint Louis FC , when he replaced former Icelandic legionary Chris Tsonis from the 63rd minute . He scored his first goal in professional football ten days later in a 1-1 draw against the Charlotte Independence franchise . By the end of the 2015 game year , Bonomo, who was back at the New York Red Bulls mainly due to his constant contact with the coach of the first division team, Jesse Marsch , had played in eleven league games and scored three goals. With the team he ranked fourth in the final table of the Eastern Conference and was then eliminated against the Rochester Rhinos in the semifinals of the subsequent play-offs.

Web links

Footnotes and individual references

  1. ↑ San Mateo County Boys Soccer Player of the Year: Stefano Bonomo , accessed December 29, 2015
  2. ↑ Pac-12 men's soccer all-academic teams announced , accessed December 29, 2015
  3. ↑ Eight Golden Bears Earn All-Pac-12 Honors ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed December 29, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.calbears.com
  4. ↑ Cal advances, knocks off SIUE 1-0 , accessed December 29, 2015
  5. ↑ Five Golden Bears Earn All-Pac-12 Honors , accessed December 29, 2015
  6. ↑ 2015 MLS SuperDraft: Six Pac-12 players taken in first two rounds (English), accessed on December 29, 2015
  7. ↑ Red Bulls select Stefano Bonamo with 39th pick in MLS SuperDraft , accessed December 29, 2015
  8. ↑ 22-letni napastnik z MLS za słaby dla Miedzi Legnica (Polish), accessed on December 29, 2015
  9. ↑ Jesse Marsch on Stefano Bonomo: "I don't think that story is quite finished yet" , accessed on December 29, 2015
  10. ^ New York Red Bulls II sign Stefano Bonomo (English), accessed December 29, 2015
  11. ^ Former Cal Forward Bonomo Signs with New York Red Bulls II , accessed December 29, 2015
  12. ↑ MATCH RECAP: New York Red Bulls II 2, Saint Louis FC 1 , accessed December 29, 2015
  13. ↑ Bonomo's Finish Earns NYRB II Draw With Charlotte ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed December 29, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uslsoccer.com
  14. ↑ IN FOCUS: A look at the returning Red Bulls II players: Stefano Bonomo , accessed December 29, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Bonomo, Stefano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Italian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Hillsborough , California , United States