Barbara Bonansea
Bonansea with Brescia in 2016
Personal information
Date of birth (1991-06-13) 13 June 1991 (age 32)
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)

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.

Club career

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

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

No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 13 March 2013 GSZ Stadium, Larnaca, Cyprus  South Korea 1–0 1–0 2013 Cyprus Women's Cup
2. 20 September 2013 A. Le Coq Arena, Tallinn, Estonia  Estonia 5–0 5–1 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
3. 13 February 2014 Stadio Silvio Piola, Italy  Czech Republic 4–1 6–1
4. 8 May 2014 Petar Miloševski Training Centre, Skopje, North Macedonia  North Macedonia 8–0 11–0
5. 13 September 2014 Stadio Silvio Piola, Vercelli, Italy  Estonia 1–0 4–0
6. 17 September 2014  North Macedonia 10–0 15–0
7. 13–0
8. 15–0
9. 4 March 2015 GSP Stadium, Nicosia, Cyprus  South Korea 1–0 2–1 2015 Cyprus Women's Cup
10. 9 March 2016 GSZ Stadium, Larnaca, Cyprus  Czech Republic 2–1 3–1 2016 Cyprus Women's Cup
11. 7 June 2016 Tengiz Burjanadze Stadium, Gori, Georgia  Georgia 2–0 7–0 UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying
12. 4–0
13. 18 December 2016 Arena da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil  Brazil 3–4 3–5 2016 International Women's Football Tournament of Manaus
14. 8 March 2017 GSZ Stadium, Larnaca, Cyprus  Czech Republic 4–1 6–2 2017 Cyprus Women's Cup
15. 15 September 2017 Stadio Alberto Picco, La Spezia, Italy  Moldova 2–0 5–0 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
16. 24 October 2017 Stadio Teofilo Patini, Castel di Sangro, Italy  Romania 3–0 3–0
17. 28 February 2018 Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium, Larnaca, Cyprus  Switzerland 1–0 3–0 2018 Cyprus Women's Cup
18. 8 June 2018 Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence, Italy  Portugal 3–0 3–0 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
19. 27 February 2019 Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium, Larnaca, Cyprus  Mexico 2–0 5–0 2019 Cyprus Women's Cup
20. 4 March 2019 AEK Arena, Larnaca, Cyprus  Thailand 1–0 4–1
21. 9 June 2019 Stade du Hainaut, Valenciennes, France  Australia 1–0 2–1 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup
22. 2–1
23. 7 March 2020 Vista Municipal Stadium, Parchal, Portugal  New Zealand 2–0 3–0 2020 Algarve Cup
24. 24 February 2021 Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence, Italy  Israel 2–0 12–0 UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying
25. 11–0
26. 26 November 2021 Stadio Renzo Barbera, Palermo, Italy  Switzerland 1–0 1–2 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
27. 30 November 2021 Stadionul Anghel Iordănescu, Voluntari, Romania  Romania 1–0 5–0
28. 16 February 2022 Estádio Municipal de Lagos, Lagos, Portugal  Denmark 1–0 1–0 2022 Algarve Cup

Style of play

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

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

Brescia

Juventus

Individual

References

  1. ^ "Atalanta vs. Juventus – 30 September 2017 – Women Soccerway". uk.women.soccerway.com. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
  2. ^ "Grecia-Italia (0–0)" (in Italian). UEFA.com. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  3. ^ "Cabrini finalises Italy's Women's EURO squad". uefa.com. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
  4. ^ "Italia-Macedonia (15–0)" (in Italian). UEFA.com. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  5. ^ "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.
  6. ^ "Torneo in Brasile dal 7 dicembre. Bottaro: "Ringrazio le società per la collaborazione"" (in Italian). FIGC.it. 16 November 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  7. ^ "Ufficializzata la lista delle 23 Azzurre convocate per il Campionato Europeo" (in Italian). FIGC.it. 5 July 2017. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  8. ^ a b c "Bonansea: I was always daydreaming of football in class". FIFA.com. 4 February 2019.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ "Gran Galà del calcio, la Juventus fa incetta di premi" (in Italian). Il Corriere della Sera. 31 January 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  11. ^ "Gran Gala del Calcio 2019 winners". Football Italia. 2 December 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  12. ^ "The FIFA FIFPRO Women's World 11 of 2019-2020 - FIFPRO World Players' Union". FIFPRO. 17 December 2020. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  13. ^ "2020-2021 Women's FIFA FIFPRO World 11 Revealded". FIFPRO. 17 January 2022. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  14. ^ "Hall of Fame: Nesta, Rummenigge, Conte, Rocchi, Cabrini and Bonansea among those inducted". Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio. 3 February 2022. Retrieved 3 February 2022.

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