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About Gianluca Catalano
- Gianluca Catalano (born May 6, 2000) is a Canadian soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for Toronto FC II.
- He was 14 years old when he made his debut in the Canadian youth program in 2014 at an identification camp...
- represented Canada at the 2017 CONCACAF Men’s Under-17 Championship in Panama and has represented Canada at the U15, U16, U17 and U18 level.
- Also has represented Toronto FC at multiple youth international soccer tournaments in France, Mexico, USA and at the world famous Viareggio Cup in Italy back stopping the TFC academy to a 1-1 draw vs Juventus. He made his professional debut as an academy call-up on May 16, 2018 vs Atlanta United 2 and went on to start a total of 5 USL Championship games prior to accepting a scholarship to play for NCAA Div1 University of Connecticut (UConn) later that year.
- As a freshman started season opener and won 2-1 vs Lehigh and advanced to the American Athletic Conference (AAC) semi-finals & losing to Indiana in the 2nd round of the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, also known as the College Cup.
- In the spring/summer of 2019 was named starter for AC Connecticut of the USL League Two (USL2) making 66 saves in 9 games and named the number two goalkeeping prospect as part of the Top 20 under 20.
- As a sophomore in 2019 with UConn he lead the AAC with a GA Avg.
- 0.99 and Save Pct.
- 0.812 and was named Goalkeeper of the Week.
- On November 20th, 2019 he was nominated by the USL2 for the 'Global Greats Series': Best Player from North America 2019 where he finished 3rd overall in voting.
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