Arsenal’s Riccardo Calafiori has been named within the Serie A Workforce of the Yr for his performances in a Bologna shirt in 2023/24.
Italy’s Gran Gala del Calcio confirmed their Serie A picks this week, with Arsenal’s chosen as a part of the again 4.
As with the PFA Awards in England, the Serie A workforce was chosen by gamers competing within the division, and Calafiori obtained sufficient votes from his fellow professionals to make the facet.
Calafiori wasn’t the one Premier League summer season signing to make the workforce, and he’ll doubtless face off towards the opposite one on Wednesday night time, as Manchester United’s Joshua Zirkzee was additionally included. Each gamers represented Bologna in 2023/24.
Calafiori earned his spot within the Serie A Workforce of the Yr by making 30 appearances for fifth-place Bologna, scoring two objectives and helping 5.
The workforce had been only one win away from a third-place end, with Calafiori rested on the ultimate day as they misplaced 2-0 to Genoa to drop two locations. But it surely didn’t notably matter, with the highest 5 in Italy all assured a Champions League spot by that stage.
That Champions League marketing campaign hasn’t gone so effectively up to now, with Bologna sitting thirty third with one level from 5 video games. They’re not fairly out of the operating for the knockout phases but, however they’ve a five-point hole to make up in three video games, and the workforce 5 factors forward of them is Actual Madrid.
Maybe the facet are feeling the results of dropping their Workforce of the Yr stars, with Calafiori and Zirkzee the one Bologna gamers to function within the XI.
Serie A Workforce of the Yr in full
