Barbara Bonansea (born 13 June 1991) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a forward or midfielder for Serie A club Juventus FC and the Italy women's national team.
.jpg) Bonansea with Brescia in 2016 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 13 June 1991 | ||
| Place of birth | Pinerolo, Italy | ||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Forward, midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Juventus | ||
| Number | 11 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2006–2012 | A.C.F. Torino | 108 | (27) |
| 2012–2017 | ACF Brescia | 117 | (61) |
| 2017– | Juventus | 90 | (49) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2007–2011 | Italy U19 | 15 | (7) |
| 2012– | Italy | 67 | (28) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18 June 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10 December 2022 (UTC) | |||
Club career edit
After more than a 100 games for A.C.F. Torino, Bonansea moved to ACF Brescia in 2012. Bonansea helped ACF Brescia two league titles and two domestic cups. She also won three Italian women’s super cups in 2014, 2015, and 2016. In 2016, Bonansea was named Serie A female footballer of the year.
In 2017, Bonansea joined Juventus on a free transfer. She made her debut against Atalanta scoring twice in a 3–0 win.[1] Bonansea won the league title in her first year at the club. In the 2018–19 season, she helped Juventus secure the double, winning the league title and domestic cup.
International career edit
After 15 appearances and 7 goals for Italy at youth level, in September 2012 Bonansea made her Italy senior national team debut in a 0–0 draw against Greece in Athens, in a Euro 2013 qualifier.[2] She was not called up to be part of the Italian squad for the UEFA Women's Euro 2013, however.[3]
During Italy's 2015 World Cup qualifying campaign, she made six appearances, scoring seven goals, including a hat-trick in a 15–0 home victory over Macedonia.[4] In November 2015, she was included by manager Antonio Cabrini in Italy's squad for a double friendly against the Chinese national team, appearing in both the match in Guiyang on 3 December, and in the match in Qujing on 6 December.[5]
In November 2016, she was included in Italy's squad for the 2016 International Women's Football Tournament of Manaus, which was held from 7 to 18 December.[6]
She was included in Italy's squad for the UEFA Women's Euro 2017[7] and the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.
International goals edit
Style of play edit
FIFA described Bonansea as “pacey and snake-hipped” and “able to balletically slalom past opponents on grass like Alberto Tomba did poles,” comparing her to Paulo Futre and Ryan Giggs in their primes.[8] Bonansea is renowned for scoring wonder goals, including the knuckleball free-kicks pioneered by Juninho Pernambucano.[8]
Personal life edit
Bonansea is an economics graduate and aspires to play football professionally outside of Italy.[9] Bonansea enjoys reading Dan Brown books, watching romance and thriller films, and learning to play the guitar.[8]
Honours edit
Brescia
- Serie A: 2013–14, 2015–16
- Coppa Italia: 2014–15, 2015–16
- Supercoppa Italiana: 2014, 2015, 2016
Juventus
- Serie A: 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22
- Coppa Italia: 2018–19, 2021–22
- Supercoppa Italiana: 2019, 2020–21, 2021–22
Individual
- AIC Serie A Female Footballer of the Year: 2016[10]
- AIC Best Women's XI: 2019[11]
- FIFA FIFPro Women's World11: 2020,[12] 2021[13]
- Italian Football Hall of Fame: 2021[14]
- Serie A Goal of the Year: 2021
References edit
- ^ "Atalanta vs. Juventus – 30 September 2017 – Women Soccerway". uk.women.soccerway.com. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
- ^ "Grecia-Italia (0–0)" (in Italian). UEFA.com. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
- ^ "Cabrini finalises Italy's Women's EURO squad". uefa.com. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
- ^ "Italia-Macedonia (15–0)" (in Italian). UEFA.com. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
- ^ "Doppia amichevole in Cina: 22 convocate per le sfide in programma a Guiyang e Qujing" (in Italian). FIGC.it. 23 November 2015. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
- ^ "Torneo in Brasile dal 7 dicembre. Bottaro: "Ringrazio le società per la collaborazione"" (in Italian). FIGC.it. 16 November 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
- ^ "Ufficializzata la lista delle 23 Azzurre convocate per il Campionato Europeo" (in Italian). FIGC.it. 5 July 2017. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
- ^ a b c "Bonansea: I was always daydreaming of football in class". FIFA.com. 4 February 2019.
- ^ Pellone, Stefano (4 September 2014). "Barbara Bonansea: "Segno particolare? Sono una calciatrice"" (in Italian). Mondo Pallone. Archived from the original on 5 September 2014. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
- ^ "Gran Galà del calcio, la Juventus fa incetta di premi" (in Italian). Il Corriere della Sera. 31 January 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
- ^ "Gran Gala del Calcio 2019 winners". Football Italia. 2 December 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- ^ "The FIFA FIFPRO Women's World 11 of 2019-2020 - FIFPRO World Players' Union". FIFPRO. 17 December 2020. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
- ^ "2020-2021 Women's FIFA FIFPRO World 11 Revealded". FIFPRO. 17 January 2022. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
- ^ "Hall of Fame: Nesta, Rummenigge, Conte, Rocchi, Cabrini and Bonansea among those inducted". Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio. 3 February 2022. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
External links edit
- Barbara Bonansea at UEFA (in Italian)
- Barbara Bonansea at Football.it (in Italian)
- Barbara Bonansea Archived 9 March 2015 at archive.today at Connect World Football
- Barbara Bonansea at Soccerway