Already a European champion with Italy, goalkeeper Donnarumma joined PSG inside the summer time after being named the quality participant at Euro 2020, and he's supporting PSG's push to eventually conquer the Champions League in advance of the second one leg of their ultimate-sixteen conflict in the Spanish capital.
It has been a great upward thrust for the 23-12 months-antique wood worker's son, who is already a veteran between the sticks with over 250 appearances for AC Milan and forty for Italy after starting his senior profession in 2015, on the gentle age of 16.
The youngest goalkeeper in the history of the Italian countrywide team, Donnarumma's abilties are such that he overcame Italy's traditional reticence to throw young players into the mixture.
Donnarumma took his first tentative steps as a shot stopper returned in 2003 in his domestic city of Castellammare di Stabia, which sits at the bay of Naples and lies just south of Vesuvius, an active volcano.
"He started out right here on this pitch. He came to watch his big brother (Antonio, presently goalkeeper with Serie C facet Padova) train and he also positioned himself inside the goal to show off", Ciro Amore, the top of football faculty ASD Napoli, tells AFP.
"He turned into best four-and-a-half of years old and wasn't allowed to be in a team, but we started bringing him to education. He turned into in no way frightened of all of us, he already had an imposing body and he was quite huge. We may want to see that he had all of the characteristics of a extremely good goalkeeper."
Donnarumma stayed with ASD Napoli for 10 years until he became snapped up by means of Milan's youth set up, and while his former train Ernesto Ferraro died five years later the now Italy goalkeeper paid an emotional tribute to the person who helped him emerge as the successor to World Cup winner and Italian icon Gianluigi Buffon.
"Thank you for being a manual, a father, a pal," he wrote on Instagram.
- Rapid upward thrust -
Donnarumma's arrival at Milan got here after a flurry of hobby in the already big goalkeeper, a phenomenon who Ferraro had long pegged as a future Azzurri keeper.
