GOAL sat down with the USMNT midfielder to talk setbacks, bouncebacks and the passion for soccer in Italy
Hours before Venezia 's visit to Inter, Gianluca Busio's phone illuminated with a text message. It was from his father. The message was ... supportive?
Such is life growing up in a family of Serie A diehards: even your own family roots against you if you're wearing the wrong colors. From birth, Italian soccer has been in Busio's blood. Like thousands of kids who grow up far from Italy, the dream was to play in Serie A, the league his father and grandfather raised him on.That dream came true. Busio made it. By signing with Venezia in 2021, he'd arrived in the league he'd always wanted to play in.
Busio is just 22, so in once sense, it's all just beginning. But even at that age, he's already been through relegation, promotion, World Cup dreams dashed and rekindled again. Busio has achieved everything he wanted to while watching Inter with his family as a kid in North Carolina, even if that same family has to root against him every now and then.. "My dad is not a great soccer player. He's just not, but he loves the game.
Those same feelings are pushing him on with the U.S. men's national team, too, as he chases down another dream: a World Cup. Like his club career, his national team career has had ups and downs. He was introduced in 2021 and then left behind in 2022. Now, with another World Cup on the horizon, Busio is back in that mix, too, with another chance.
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