Tops of Italy hunt for Mancini. The Internet is breaking Instagram pictures with Gianluca. He is compared to the 2006 champion Marco Materazzi. Gianluca Mancini is a player of the Italian team, his position is the defender. At the end of 2017, he became one of the 100 most talented young football players in Italy.
Gianluca Mancini is often confused with Roberto Mancini - namesake, head coach of the Italian team and former head coach of Zenit. True, apart from the surname, nothing else connects them. During his short professional career, the footballer managed to make a great contribution: he spent 44 matches, scored 5 goals, made 1 assist, received 9 yellow cards.
Gianluca Mancini was born on April 17, 1996 in an Italian small tourist town near the city of Pisa - Pantedere, named after the Pante bridge over the Era River. From childhood, the boy played football.
Sports career
Fiorentina
Since 2015, Gianluca Mancini received a sports education at the youth school "Fiorentina" in Florence, which belonged to the summer of 2016. Fiorentina, based in Florence, is a two-time Italian champion and six-time winner of the Italian Cup. The club was founded on August 29, 1926 thanks to the merger of the Libertas team and the Firenze sports club. The club’s traditional colors were initially red and white, but in 1928 they changed to purple and white, and since then the team has become known as “Violet”. However, a young football player did not play a single match for the club from Florence.
Perugia
In the same 2015, Gianluca Mancini signed his first professional contract with the Italian football club Perugia. In 2016, the football player moved from the city of Florence to “Perugia” of the same city. In the 2015/2016 season, Mancini acted on loan at Serie B for Perugia, after which he moved to this club as a free agent. Interesting facts: in the 1978/1979 season, Perugia, under the leadership of club president Franco D'Attom, did not lose a single match in Serie A. This achievement was able to be repeated only by “Milan” in the 1991/1992 season and by “Juventus” in the 2011/2012 season. And in the seasons of 1999/2000 and 2000/2001, Russian footballer Dmitry Alenichev played for Perugia. In “Perugia” he showed sports creativity Gianluca Mancini in 2 tournaments: “Italian Cup” and “Series B”, where he scored his first goal. At the same time, Fiorentina retained half of the rights to its pupil. In January 2017, “Perugia” sold Gianluca to the Italian football club from the city of Bergamo, “Atalanta” for 300 thousand euros.
Atlanta
In 2017, Gianluca Mancini moved to Atlanta. The role of the 22-year-old football player is the central defender. The transfer value of a football player is about 2 million euros. His contract with the Lombards is calculated until June 30, 2023. Mancini made his debut in Serie A in September 2017, replacing his match against his hometown Fiorentina. In Atalanta, Gianluca acts in the center of defense in a scheme with three central defenders.
In the 2018 season of the Italian championship, the defender played 11 matches and scored one goal. This season, Gianluca has eight matches, three goals and one assist in Serie A, as well as one goal scored in three games of the Europa League. “Mancini is a modern defender who has great potential for improvement, ” Atalanta head coach Gian Piero Gasperini is sure. “He has all the necessary qualities to play along with the Italian team over time.”
In general, Atalanta statistics do not exactly upset Gian Piero Gasperini. In 12 rounds, 14 goals conceded. This is the fifth indicator from above in Serie A. With 23 goals scored and 8th place in the championship, the team from Bergamo is on the move. In great order, and Gianluca Mancini.
A pupil of Fiorentina, last year he stayed in the reserve, a year earlier he played in Serie B in Perugia. But it seems that it was in this season that Mancini's time came. He earned a seat at the base and now, together with Jose Palomino, form the agenda at the Atalanta Defense Center.
