Agnese Bonfantini

Italian footballer

Agnese Bonfantini
Bonfantini (foreground) warming up for Juventus in 2022
Personal information
Date of birth (1999-07-04) 4 July 1999 (age 24)[1]
Place of birth Verbania, Italy[2]
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s) forward,[1] Left winger
Team information
Current team
 Inter Milan
(on loan from Juventus)
Youth career
2007–2010 Fondotoce
2010–2012 Gravellona Toce
2012–2018 Inter Milan
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2018–2021 Roma 56 (12)
2021– Juventus 33 (4)
2023 → Sampdoria (loan) 11 (7)
2023– → Inter Milan (loan) 0 (0)
International career‡
2017–2018 Italy U19 8 (7)
2019 Italy U23 1 (1)
2019– Italy 10 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 9 August 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 9 August 2023

Agnese Bonfantini (born 4 July 1999) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Serie A club Inter Milan, and the Italy women's national team.

Club career

Bonfantini began playing youth football with Piedmont-based club Fondotoce when Bonfantini was six years old. She began playing in inter-gender training games with the Fondotoce boys' team, and continued her inter-gender tutelage when she transferred to Gravellona Toce in 2010. Her first move away from her native Turin came when she accepted a move to the youth ranks of Inter Milano in 2012, where she would spend the next six years of her career.

Bonfantini would alternate her appearances between Inter's Primavera and senior sides. She made her senior debut for Inter when she was sixteen years old, on 16 April 2015. This was her first senior start for the club on the last matchday of the 2014–15 Serie B season. Despite her long-term service to the club, Bonfantini never managed to help Inter to achieve promotion to Serie A. She eventually transferred to newly-formed, top-flight club A.S. Roma in the summer of 2018, giving her the chance to make her Serie A debut.

Bonfantini was selected for Roma's first eleven in the club's very first league game of their history, away to Sassuolo on 22 September 2018.[3] She helped Roma score the first goal in the club's history by winning the penalty that Roma teammate Annamaria Serturini scored on the day.

On 15 February 2020, Bonfantini became the first woman in A.S. Roma's history to score a hat-trick for the club when she scored three goals against Hellas Verona in 47 minutes of play.[4] In the 2020–21 season, Bonfantini came off the bench in the 30 May 2021 Coppa Italia final to help Roma defeat AC Milan and win their first major trophy as a club.[5]

On 5 July 2021, Bonfantini joined Juventus.[6]

On 5 August 2023, Bonfantini joined Inter Milan on loan from Juventus until 30 June 2024.[7]

International career

Bonfantini scored two goals on her Italy U-19 debut against Moldova on 16 October 2017. Italy won that game 8–0. On 5 April 2018, Bonfantini scored a backheel goal against Scotland for Italy U-17, and her performance helped her country qualify for the EURO U-19 tournament.

In 2019, Bonfantini made her senior debut with Italy in a 3–0 victory over Hungary.

Style of play

Bonfantini had described her approach to the game as one where "when I see a through ball, I run. I only see the penalty box and run.” [8] Despite sometimes being tried as a centre-forward for Italy, Bonfantini claims she sees herself as a winger. She shows an ability to make runs down the flank in the non-possession phase of games, cutting inside to unmark herself and play between the lines when she's ready to receive a pass from her teammates. Bonfantini can also show an ability to come deep and exchange passes with her full-back in order to release her full-back into space down her flank.

International goals

No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 2 September 2022 Zimbru Stadium, Chișinău, Moldova  Moldova 4–0 8–0 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
2. 5 April 2024 Stadio San Vito-Gigi Marulla, Cosenza, Italy  Netherlands 2–0 2–0 UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying

Honours

Roma

  • Coppa Italia: 2020–21

Juventus

  • Serie A: 2021–22
  • Coppa Italia: 2021–22 [it]
  • Supercoppa Italiana: 2021–22

References

  1. ^ a b "Agnese Bonfantini | Italy | UEFA Women's EURO". UEFA.com. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  2. ^ Agnese Bonfantini at Soccerway. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  3. ^ "Roma Women Lose Inaugural Match to Sassuolo, 3–2". Chiesa Di Totti. 22 September 2018. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  4. ^ "Unstoppable Bonfantini Leads Roma to 6–0 Win Over Verona". Chiesa Di Totti. 15 February 2020. Archived from the original on 20 February 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  5. ^ "Roma Wins 2021 Coppa Italia in Penalty Shootout". Chiesa Di Totti. 31 May 2021. Archived from the original on 30 May 2021. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  6. ^ "BONFANTINI OFFICIALLY JOINS JUVENTUS WOMEN!". Juventus.com. 5 July 2021.
  7. ^ "AGNESE BONFANTINI JOINS INTER". INTER.com. 5 August 2023.
  8. ^ dallagente (30 April 2020). "Agnese Bonfantini on Her Idols, Her Goals, Her Path to Roma & More". Chiesa Di Totti. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
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