US Males’s Nationwide Crew midfielder Gianluca Busio scored the game-winning aim for Venezia in a 2-1 win over Lecco because the membership pushes to get again into the highest flight.
The 21-year-old midfielder from Greensboro, NC scored within the sixtieth minute, simply two minutes after Joel Pohjanpalo equalized for Venezia. Busio’s aim put Venezia three factors off of Como for computerized promotion to Serie A.
Busio first garnered headlines in 2017 when he signed a Homegrown Participant contract with MLS membership Sporting Kansas Metropolis. He was the youngest participant to signal with an MLS membership since Freddy Adu again in 2004 when he signed for D.C. United. He moved to Venezia in 2021 for a club-record switch payment.
Busio began his worldwide profession with the US U15s in 2016. Going by the U17, U20 and U23 squads, the midfielder has made 13 appearances for the senior staff scoring one aim. His solely worldwide aim got here within the 2023 CONCACAF Gold Cup in opposition to Trinidad and Tobago, although it was in his dwelling state of North Carolina on the Financial institution of America Stadium.
He is scored a career-high six objectives for Venezia this season as I Lagunari appears to get again to the highest flight after being relegated within the 2021/22 season.
Busio is not the one American worldwide within the Orange-Black-Greens’ squad. Busio begins alongside Tanner Tessman who additionally signed with the membership again in 2021. Tessman has scored 4 objectives for Venezia this season, two of which recreation the week prior in opposition to Brescia.
GOAL | #LeccoVenezia 1-2
58’ Pohjanpalo 60’ Busio#ArancioNeroVerde🟠⚫️🟢 pic.twitter.com/Ioqyi4sUuF
— Venezia FC (@VeneziaFC_EN) April 20, 2024
Each gamers skilled relegation two years in the past and have their sights set on promotion to Serie A.
For individuals who do not observe Italian soccer as carefully as different leagues, Serie B to A promotion works a bit in another way than say the EFL Championship to the Premier League. Equally, the highest two groups in Serie B are mechanically promoted to Serie A. The third place staff, presently related for Venezia who’re three factors off second-place Como, is barely mechanically promoted whether it is greater than 14 factors away from fourth place.
If the third-place staff doesn’t meet that threshold, then a playoff his held that includes the groups who completed third by eighth.
Venezia sit simply three factors off of Como for computerized promotion, and are simply 4 factors forward of Cremonese. Transferring previous Como is Venezia’s greatest likelihood of getting again to the Serie A and the membership could have to take action in simply 4 remaining video games.
If you wish to watch each Tessman and Busio battle for promotion, listed below are Venezia’s remaining fixtures:
