On a team full of top attacking talent, Giulianna Gianino is ever-steady in midfield. (Evan Scales/New England Soccer Journal)
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Serious recruiting conversations likely won’t roll around for another six months for Giulianna Gianino (Norwell, Mass.), but South Shore Select academy director Katie Schoepfer (New London, Conn.) already has a sense of how those talks will go.
Gianino, a holding midfielder who often captains the club’s U-16 Development Academy team, is bound to draw plenty of attention as a Class of 2022 player.