Dean Huijsen will spend the second part of the 2023/2024 season with AS Roma, joining the capital club on a dry loan deal, without right of redemption, until 30 June 2024.
Having arrived at Juventus from Malaga in the summer of 2021, the Dutch defender born in 2005 had an immediate impact in black and white, starting from the Under 17s where he concluded the 2021/2022 season with 20 appearances and eight goals to his name, receiving a call-up to the Under-19 side despite being well under age.
Huijsen has always played beyond his years, and did so the following season as well, making 40 appearances between the Under-19 and Next Gen sides, netting 10 goals: 4 in the Primavera 1 championship, 3 in the UEFA Youth League, 2 in the Coppa Italia Serie C and 1 in the Serie C championship. He also featured in two friendlies with the First Team in December 2022, against Standard Liege and Rijeka.
Those two friendly tests were his first taste of senior football, and since that December he has grown in leaps and bounds. Dean has increasingly become a leader of the Next Gen side and since the beginning of the 2023/2024 season - together with Kenan Yildiz and Joseph Nonge - he has trained regularly with the First Team, making his official senior debut at San Siro against Milan. That very match against the Rossoneri, on 22 October 2023, was in fact the last step before his official move to the First Team, dated 7 November.
Now a new opportunity awaits in Rome, where he will continue his growth with the Giallorossi.
Good luck, Dean!