Barbara Bonansea

Barbara Bonansea
Bonansea with Brescia in 2016
Personal information
Date of birth 13 June 1991
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. 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. She was not called up to be part of the Italian squad for the UEFA Women's Euro 2013, 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 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.

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.

She was included in Italy's squad for the UEFA Women's Euro 2017 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. Bonansea is renowned for scoring wonder goals, including the knuckleball free-kicks pioneered by Juninho Pernambucano.

Personal life

Bonansea is an economics graduate and aspires to play football professionally outside of Italy. Bonansea enjoys reading Dan Brown books, watching romance and thriller films, and learning to play the guitar.

Honours

Brescia

Juventus

Individual