Barbara Bonansea (born 13 June 1991) is an Italian professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club

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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

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on a free transfer. She made her debut against

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scoring twice in a 3–0 win. Bonansea won the league title in her first year at the club. In the 2018–19 season, she helped

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

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in Athens, in a Euro 2013 qualifier. She was not called up to be part of the Italian squad for the

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, however. 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. In November 2015, she was included by manager

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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. In November 2016, she was included in Italy's squad for the

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, which was held from 7 to 18 December. She was included in Italy's squad for the

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and the

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International goals

Style of play

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described Bonansea as “pacey and snake-hipped” and “able to balletically slalom past opponents on grass like

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did poles,” comparing her to

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and

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in their primes. Bonansea is renowned for scoring wonder goals, including the

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free-kicks pioneered by

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Personal life

Bonansea is an economics graduate and aspires to play football professionally outside of Italy. Bonansea enjoys reading

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books, watching romance and thriller films, and learning to play the

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Honours

Brescia *

: 2013–14, 2015–16 *

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: 2014–15, 2015–16 *

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: 2014, 2015, 2016 Juventus * Serie A: 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20,

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, 2021–22 * Coppa Italia: 2018–19, * Supercoppa Italiana:

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, 2021–22 Individual *

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Serie A Female Footballer of the Year: 2016 * AIC Best Women's XI: 2019 * FIFA FIFPro Women's World11: 2020, 2021 *

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: 2021 * Serie A Goal of the Year: 2021

References

External links

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