Mantova restarts with Gabriele Graziani's guidance, aiming high with an ambitious project to grow the Primavera. The biancorossa team has already left a deep mark in three seasons. Graziani will remain on the bench of the young virgiliani also in the 2026-2027 season, for his fourth consecutive year at the helm of the team. Mantova does not start from zero. It starts from a work, from an idea, from a figure that knows the square, the value of the jersey and the weight of a nursery called to grow again. The name of Gabriele Graziani, in Mantova, inevitably brings with it memory, affection and belonging. For the biancorossa square, he remains the bomber, the flag, one of those profiles that never really pass from the drawer of memories. But today stopping only at the sentimental component would be reductive. His confirmation is not a tribute to the past, but a technical choice based on a very concrete path. From his stable return to the helm of the Primavera, in the 2023-2024 season, Mantova has changed dimension. The first step was the promotion from Primavera 4 to Primavera 3, conquered by overcoming Virtus Verona in the double final. A jump that has not represented only a change of category, but the first true signal of a project with solid bases, clear ideas and a precise direction. From there on, growth has not been interrupted. In the following season, the biancorossi have almost reached the passage in Primavera 2, stopping only at the last obstacle against Lecco. A heavy disappointment, certainly, but also the confirmation that Mantova had already become a credible, competitive team, capable of being in real games and important pressures. Then the strongest response came in the 2025-2026 season, with the first place in their own group of Primavera 3 at 44 points, ahead of Carrarese and Pro Patria. A record that has opened the doors to the playoff final and reiterated a simple concept: this Primavera is no longer an episode of happiness, but a stable reality in the upper zones. In the youth sector, the result cannot be the only yardstick, but when a team arrives at the end with this continuity, it becomes impossible to ignore. In three seasons, Mantova's Graziani has played three finals: one won, that of promotion to Primavera 3, and two lost, first against Lecco and then against Pro Patria. The last wound is still fresh. The biancorossi had arrived at the final act of the playoffs after winning the group and had built a significant advantage, but in the end they were defeated.