Roma and the project for the Next Gen team

Return to the Champions League and finish the steps for the Stadium project. But not only. Friedkin think more and more about the creation of Rome Next Gen as happened in recent years in clubs such as Milan, Juve, Inter and Atalanta. The formation of a team B has gone from a simple idea to a concrete project in recent months. It would be another important step to strengthen a nursery that too often, especially in recent years, has let go of great perspective: from Calafiori to Frattesi passing through Scamacca and Politano. The idea is to launch the Roma Next Gen for the centenary, and therefore within two years even if the obstacles are not lacking.

The clues

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Meanwhile, the clues are there. The first comes from the changes that took place in the last few hours at the top of the youth sector. Massara two days ago communicated to Marco Albergati (head of the observatory observers since 2019) the desire to exclude him from the technical project. Other staff members may also leave Friedkin on impulse. The youth sector should be assigned to Roberto Vichi and Gianmarco Migliorati, currently in force for female Rome. But above all Federico Guidi’s return to the spring bench makes noise. The technician, fresh from experience at Milan, gave up some offers from Serie C to return to Trigoria. But above all it should be remembered that his farewell was mainly due to the failure to prospect of a team B, fundamental for the development of the youth sector to be merged into the first team. What happened in Bergamo under the Gasperini management. “Why did I come back? – said Guidi – Why does Rome have great potential, at a youth level; they must turn into quality and project into football that matters. Everything that has been proposed to me at the level of ideas on how to grow young people find my consent”.

the steps

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Other clues come from the Primavera Roma purchasing campaign. In these days the club has closed for Antonio Arena and Romero Corredera (the Spaniard has already signed). Both played in Serie C (one with Pescara and the other with Las Rozas in Spain) and therefore have the right experience for a championship decidedly different from that spring. From where many talents have blossomed over the years thanks to the work of Alberto De Rossi and Bruno Conti. Now it’s time to raise the level. Friedkin know this, but as we said, there is no shortage of obstacles. The first concerns the initial economic investment, which in any case should not be too high (there is talk of 15-20 million including footballers, registrations and staff + about 3 million per year of “maintenance”) and certainly not impossible keeping in mind the economic return and above all the desire for free Friedkin in a year from UEFA stakes. Then there is the question of the registration in Lega Pro: a second team has the priority on the others, but it can only enter if another fails or does not register. However, the scenario that does not seem far from reality given that even historical teams such as Taranto and Messina are sinking in Serie D for financial issues.

stadium

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So what is missing? The largest impediment is the stadium where the children of the Next Gen. should play. Obviously the Olympic, no plant in the capital is in accordance with a Serie C match and the hypothesis of playing at the ‘Domenico Francioni’ in Latina is already being evaluated. For safety matters, in fact, it is impossible to adapt the renewed “Agostino di Bartolomei ‘of Trigoria (where in any case the second team would train) or the’ three fountains’ where female Rome plays, recently redeveloped to host the Women’s Champions League. Flaminio is now left to abandonment while in the Pietralata project at the moment a second structure of this scope is not included in the last few months. of the Anco Marzio ‘of Ostiamare, a club purchased and relaunched in recent months by Daniele De Rossi.