Samuele Inácio
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| Full name | Samuele Inácio Piá | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 2 April 2008 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Bergamo, Italy | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Borussia Dortmund | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 40 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| –2024 | Atalanta | ||||||||||||||||
| 2024–2025 | Borussia Dortmund | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2025– | Borussia Dortmund II | 4 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2026– | Borussia Dortmund | 7 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2022–2023 | Italy U15 | 11 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023 | Italy U16 | 5 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2024–2025 | Italy U17 | 20 | (13) | ||||||||||||||
| 2025 | Italy U18 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2026– | Italy U19 | 1 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2026– | Italy | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 16 May 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 3 June 2026 | |||||||||||||||||
Samuele Inácio Piá (born 2 April 2008) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a forward, attacking midfielder and winger for Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund and the Italy national team.
Early life
Inácio was born on 2 April 2008 in Bergamo, Italy. He is the son of Brazilian former footballer Piá, and the nephew of Brazilian former footballer Joelson. His mother is a native of Bergamo, Italy.[1] He has regarded Belgium international Kevin de Bruyne and Brazil international Neymar as his football idols. Inácio has been a supporter of French side Paris Saint-Germain. He started playing football at the age of five.[2]
Club career
As a youth player, he joined the youth academy of Italian side Atalanta. In 2024, Inácio joined the youth academy of German side Borussia Dortmund. On 28 February 2026, at 17 years old, he made his debut with the Borussia Dortmund senior team during a 3–2 home loss Bundesliga match against Bayern Munich in Der Klassiker, substituting Maximilian Beier at the 75th minute.[3] Later that year, on 8 May, he scored his first Bundesliga goal in a 3–2 victory over Eintracht Frankfurt.[4]
International career
Inácio is an Italy youth international. He made his debut with the Italian youth national teams starting with the Italy U15.
With the Italy U17 team he took part in the 2025 UEFA European Under-17 Championship in which he was the top scorer with 5 goals, and in the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup, scoring 4 goals and reaching the third place.[5]
In May 2026, Inácio was one of the players who were called up with the Italy national senior squad by interim head coach Silvio Baldini, for the friendly matches against Luxembourg and Greece.[6] On 3 June 2026, he made his debut, as a substitute, in a 1–0 win over Luxembourg.
Style of play
He mainly operates as a forward. Inácio can also operate as an attacking midfielder or as a winger. He has been described as "impressed... with his high level of game intelligence, his ability to use both feet and a good sense of space".[7]
Career statistics
Club
- As of match played 22 August 2026
| Club | Season | League | DFB-Pokal | Europe | Other | Total | ||||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Borussia Dortmund II | 2025–26 | Regionalliga West | 4 | 1 | — | — | 5[a] | 1 | 9 | 2 | ||
| Borussia Dortmund | 2025–26 | Bundesliga | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 7 | 1 | |
| 2026–27 | Bundesliga | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1[b] | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | ||
| Career total | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 17 | 3 | ||
- ↑ Appearances in Premier League International Cup
- ↑ Appearance in Franz Beckenbauer Supercup
International
- As of match played 3 June 2026[8]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy | 2026 | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 1 | 0 | |
Honours
Italy U17
- FIFA U-17 World Cup third place: 2025[9]
Individual
- UEFA European Under-17 Championship top scorer: 2025[10]
- UEFA European Under-17 Championship Team of the Tournament: 2025[11]
References
- ↑ "Samuele Inacio, il figlio d'arte italo-brasiliano dell'Atalanta che segna anche in Nazionale". sprintesport.it. 25 November 2022.
- ↑ "Chi è Inacio, figlio di Jô Pià: prossima sfida il Borussia". gianlucadimarzio.com. 29 June 2024.
- ↑ "Kimmichs Volley als krönender Abschluss: FC Bayern dreht rasantes Topspiel in Dortmund" (in German). Kicker. 28 February 2026.
- ↑ "Samuele Inácio and Nico Schlotterbeck fire BVB to victory in an emotional farewell night". Bundesliga. 8 May 2026.
- ↑ "I 20 convocati di Favo per la fase finale. Il 21 maggio l'esordio con la Polonia". FIGC (in Italian). 16 May 2024.
- ↑ "Baldini punta sulla linea verde per le amichevoli con Lussemburgo e Grecia: Donnarumma guida il gruppo" (in Italian). Italian Football Federation. 25 May 2026. Retrieved 25 May 2026.
- ↑ "Samuele Inacio macht erste Schritte beim BVB: So plant Dortmund mit dem italienischen Toptalent". ruhrnachrichten.de. 12 July 2024.
- ↑ "Samuele Inácio". EU-Football.info. Retrieved 3 June 2026.
- ↑ "Longoni saves bag Italy bronze". fifa.com. 27 November 2025. Retrieved 28 November 2025.
- ↑ "2025 Under-17 EURO top scorer: Inacio finishes out in front". UEFA. 30 May 2025. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
- ↑ "2025 U17 EURO Team of the Tournament". UEFA. 3 June 2025. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
External links
- Samuele Inácio at Soccerway
- 2008 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Bergamo
- Italian men's footballers
- Italy men's international footballers
- Italy men's youth international footballers
- Men's association football forwards
- Italian people of Brazilian descent
- Expatriate men's footballers in Germany
- Italian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
- 21st-century Italian sportsmen
- Borussia Dortmund players