The very young girl who has been wearing the red and white jersey for the past few months tells her story. Her favorite player? She plays for Barcelona. <\/p>\n
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Susanna Federiconi<\/strong> knows what it means to burn milestones: since joining Perugia Calcio Femminile in August 2019, she has played with the Under 17, Primavera, and was also called up to the first team where she was immediately a star player. To get to this point the class of 2002 had to sweat a lot: “I started playing at 5 years old with the boys in a team near home in Baiano, the Superga 48. Then I went to Spoleto where I stayed for 7 years. After that I played soccer first with the Ternana soccer team and then with the Picchi.” <\/p>\n The next step was Perugia: “The first game in the red and white was with the Primavera team away to Naples. The excitement was great because I was wearing an important jersey<\/strong>, I always saw Perugia as a team of depth and of the highest level. With the first team, on the other hand, I made my debut against Riozzese. Everything happened very quickly. I had been training with the first team for a week and then I played as a starter. I was happy because the coach gave me confidence right away but at the same time I knew I had been given an important task. It was a source of pride.” In her second appearance with the first team also came the goal that proved decisive for the 1-2 final: “There was a corner kick for us. We had rehearsed a scheme during the week, which we executed, and I hit the ball with my head and scored. To receive the affection of my teammates was nice.” <\/p>\n Over the years Susanna has changed positions on the field: “When I played with the boys I was a central defender, when I started playing in all-female groups they moved me to the three-quarter.” It is precisely to the world of mixed teams that a precious moment in Susanna’s soccer career is linked: “My fondest memory related to soccer is the last game I played with the boys. Playing with them made me grow so much, it was really emotional because I knew it would be the last match.” <\/p>\n The perfect game for Susanna is not so much about patterns but attitudes: “The important thing is for the team to be united and to put heart and grit into it. The group<\/strong>, thechemistry with teammates<\/strong>,helping each other<\/strong> in my opinion are the most important things in a team.” While from a personal point of view Susanna knows what the next step must be: “It’s only a few weeks that I have been training with the first team so I still lack some rhythm. From this point of view the difference with the first team is really big. I would like to improve this aspect. From a technical point of view you can always do more.” Susanna is inspired by “Frenkie de Jong from Barcelona because he is a young guy and has great personality and technique. I think we will hear a lot about him in the coming years.” <\/p>\n Despite her big soccer commitments Susanna manages to have the life of any girl her age: “When I’m not training I’m studying because I’m in the fourth year of scientific high school, then of course I go out with friends. I also like to watch TV series, my favorite being The House of Paper<\/em>.” <\/p>\n Tuteri photo. Reproduction prohibited. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The very young girl who has been wearing the red and white jersey for the past few months tells her story. Her favorite player? She plays for Barcelona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ac-perugia-womens-football"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acperugiacalcio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acperugiacalcio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acperugiacalcio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acperugiacalcio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acperugiacalcio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acperugiacalcio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acperugiacalcio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acperugiacalcio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acperugiacalcio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}