Giacomo Beretta
Giacomo Beretta (born 14 March 1992 Varese) is an Italian football player at the position of a striker. Since 2009 he plays in the offspring of AC Milan and is also sporadically since 2010, the pro squad of the top Italian, where he came to his pro debut on May 1, 2011. For the 2013/14 season he played on loan for U.S. Lecce.
- 2.1 Strong performances in the U-17 National Team
- 2.2 Appearances in the U- 20 and U - 19 team
Club career
Career start in the home
His active career as a football player began born in the northern Italian municipality of Varese in the spring of 1992 Beretta at his home club, the AS Varese 1910. At the club near the border with Switzerland, he finally was until 2008 active before he AlbinoLeffe in the junior area of the nearby UC changed. There, he finally came across a whole season to use before he was heading a further change of club. Although he should be issued on loan initially, the United club AC Milan finally secured in the summer of 2009 for a rumored transfer fee of 900,000 euros, the services of the young offensive actor. How often handled at transfer in Italy, retained his real master club, the UC AlbinoLeffe, a co-ownership through the transfer rights Berettas in and gave the striker trained so as to Milan. Once there, he helped his team, the U-20 of the Association, for which he was mainly used for the first title in the Coppa Italia Primavera for 25 years. For the Primavera team of the club, this was after the victory in the 1984/85 season in general only the second -won title in this competition. Although he missed some games due to injury, he had a major role in the success of the team. Even before the start of the 2010 /11, those in charge of AC Milan secured the complete transfer rights Berettas and made it into a fully fledged member of the Milanese tradition Association. Nevertheless, the Genoa a co-ownership secured almost three months later at the young offensive player who would thus be eligible to play for both clubs. However, Milan's Giacomo Beretta decided to give match practice, where he were again increased in the offspring was used.
Professional debut at AC Milan
Although he still was used in the U-20 team of the club, Beretta was after the first meetings in 2010 repeated, brought in the following year, 2011 in the professional squad with gaming operations in Serie A, the top division in the Italian football, where he eventually in the current season 2010/11 should give his professional debut. He appeared as a substitute in a 1-0 win over FC Bologna in the 86th minute for the Italian Antonio Cassano International on May 1, 2011. After the first team ranked ahead of nearest rival, the local rivals Inter Milan, on the first place in the table already four laps to go with eight points, the team secured with two laps to the final title and participation in the group stage of the UEFA Champions associated League 2011 /12. As already mentioned, Beretta was brought on other occasions in the senior squad. Thus, among other things, in the winter break of the 2010/11 season friendly against Al -Ahli Dubai. In this encounter, in which Antonio Cassano his first game for AC Milan completed, Beretta scored after 73 minutes to 2-0 ahead of his team, which eventually led to a 2-1 draw.
National team career
Strong performances in the U-17 National Team
His first appearances for an Italian national team had when he first ran aground Giacomo Beretta beginning of 2009 for the Italian U-17 national team. He made his debut there on 11 January 2009, when he came off the bench in a 1-2 defeat against the age colleague from Russia for half-time. Until January 17 so had received three further international appearances, where he scored a hat-trick in the game against Latvia and the subsequent match against Belarus met in a double. After the U-17 team had successfully played already in the late fall of 2008 to qualify for the U-17 Football Championship in 2009, Beretta participated with the team of the subsequent elite round. There, the Italians were able to prevail over the age colleagues from Austria, Scotland and Georgia and secured as to participate in the finals in May 2009. Beretta could in each of the three discharged batches entered in the elite round on the scoresheet, taking in every three games per a goal was scored. At the European Championships in Germany made it to the Italians in the final round, where they eventually the eventual champions, the German U- 17 team, documents with 0:2. Until then, the Italians carried out four games, from which the learned forward in each was in use and even scored the only goal of his team in the game against Switzerland (1:3). After the EM operations in May followed in October the same the next appearances for the U- 17 national team, when he participated with the squad at the U-17 World Cup Nigeria 2009. There he was able to re-establish itself as a regular player and put it in a stakes in four out of five possible gewesenen games of his team. In the game against the age colleague from the United States to a 2-1 victory, he scored one goal. With his last mission, the same time the from the Italians in the current tournament meant a 1-2 defeat against Switzerland, also ended Giacomo Beretta's commitment to the Italian national football team, for which he had completed 15 international matches up to this point, while ten times came to scoring.
Inserts in the U- 20 and U - 19 team
After a generally quite successful time in the U-17 national team of his native country, the player often used as a center forward was first brought in March 2010 in the junior squad of Italy, where he came to his team debut immediately. He was employed on 3 March 2010, in a four nations tournament against the U-20 Nationateam of Austria and graduated this tournament total of two inserts. To date (as of May 17, 2011) was followed by no further inserts for the U-20 team in Italy. Instead, Beretta was appointed in the same year in the Italian U-19 squad. He made his debut on 22 September 2010 in a 3-1 friendly match victory over the age colleague from Serbia and came afterwards to 2011 in two more scoreless for him personally and friendly matches in his home country for use.
Achievements
- Winner of the Coppa Italia Primavera: 2009/10
- Serie A champions: 2010/11