Ben Cremaschi became the latest American player to take his talents abroad.
Cremaschi has joined Serie A side Parma on loan for the 2025-26 season, the club announced Monday. The move also includes a purchase option, should Parma decide to exercise it.
Cremaschi, 20, scored eight goals and added nine assists in 107 appearances for Inter Miami in all competitions. He is the first Inter Miami academy product to reach the 100-game milestone for the club.
Cremaschi was part of the Herons’ involvement at the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup.
A former Argentinian U-20 youth national team player, Cremaschi has since earned three senior caps for the U.S. men’s national team.
He joins a Parma squad who fought off relegation last season and is 0-1-1 in the early stages of the current Serie A campaign.
Cremaschi could make his club debut as early as September 13 when Parma faces Cagliari in league play.
maybe i am misunderstanding this and a move to back end serie A is like tessman/busio to venezia. but this same team was shopping reyna who is a superior player.
he is still trying to break into the senior team at all and this move is supposedly motivated by getting more playing time. in which case he should have wanted low risk. austria, scotland, scandinavia, holland, one of the second divisions in germany/england/spain. heck, even a move to a lower budget mexican side.
this just doesn’t feel like you are more likely to start than on miami. this is a loan and presumably he had more control than this.
Inter continue to buy players at his spot. De Paul being an example. If you go back pre-Messi, Benja was their golden goose. They had a teenage star in the making courted by Argentina’s YNT. Then Messi came and the win now campaign began. Over the last couple years IM has brought through young SA talents one after the other, taking minutes from Cremaschi. Now it’s a European league “regular” and Messi friend in DePaul. He rotated with the others he won’t rotate with DePaul. His starts lately have come as 6 which his people don’t feel is his best position either. I think his team was finally tired of having promises not kept. He had “interest/monitoring” from big clubs in the past so I imagine like Busio was feeling that push of I’m missing my window to Europe and so I’m going to take this chance. It worked for Tanner and Busio seems happy in Venice so who’s to say it was a mistake. Looking at the roster I don’t think he’ll start but maybe will have more consistent minutes and actually seems to be a more stylistic fit to Costa’s system than Gio was (even though a healthy Gio is a far better player). They tied Atalanta and played Juventus really tough for 60 minutes so Costa has them doing some good things. I believe the purchase option is rather affordable if he does well.
Cuesta not Costa dang autocorrect.
Good for him. Work hard young man and make the most of your opportunity. More and more Americans are landing in Serie A and fortunately for me CBSSN and TUDN both carry some of that league’s games and they are in my sports package.
Unfortunately when Parma will be on CBSSN it’s usually playing Inter, Juve, Napoli and they are overmatched. I’m not sure how much he’ll play but they’re spending almost as much as they were going to spend on Gio just for a loan. Like Musah pt might be determined by what position they see him as.
if you have paramount + they show every game every week for serie a.
parma is owned by an american from iowa who also owns a USL team in des moines.
If we ever get the stadium built that is. We have a franchise but no players until the stadium is done in Des Moines. But they do also own Des Moines Menace that bring in Sasha Kljestan and friends in every March for the US Open Cup. They used to own a popular Midwest gas station franchise Kum and Go but they sold them all to Maverick. Now they own some wineries and a resort in Italy.
Great move for him.