It’s called Tino in homage to the former Parma striker, and after many stops in Empoli he proved to be a total midfielder
The number 8 on the Empoli shirt was no coincidence, for Tino Anjorin. Because he really feels like this, a number 8, “a central midfielder who can go up and down the field, attack, invent, be creative, but also go back, defend and do all the dirty work”, as he defined himself in an interview with the BBC. A man who moves in front of the median and asserts his physicality, his step, his vision, even his strong and precise right. The 23 -year -old English talent is a beautiful gift to discard, for Marco Baroni’s Turin. Because he can do so many things together and, when he got to prove it, he did them all well.
Talent and bad luck
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Faustino Adebola Rasheed Anjorin – It is so called in honor of Asprilla; The younger brother was baptized Zico – he arrived in the grenade from Empoli, where he concluded a positive season despite the relegation. At the end of the last summer market he had come to Tuscany from Chelsea, the club that had formed it. Nigerian dad and English mother, Anjorin was born in Poole, three hours by car from London. Since the eldest son is 7 years old, Dad Sheriff has made his way back and forth hundreds of times to lead him to train in the Blues youth sector. The boy soon enters the radar of the English national teams, begins as a defender but then forms he is as a central midfielder. At the age of 18 he hears the scent of the first team, on March 8, 2020 he also made his debut in the Premier League, against Everton. When it is time to take flight, the pandemic arrives. And a series of misfortune begins: during the Lockdown He loses 10 kilos, “because of a wrong diet and training program” and suffers a serious muscle problem with the quadriceps. He returns, he made his debut in the Champions League, then in the summer of 2021 Chelsea sends him on loan to the Lokomotiv Moscow. Just when it seems to find continuity in the band, Tino fractures a metatarsal. He returns to England, finds space first in the Huddersfield and then in Portsmouth. It goes down in the category but its value is evident, it has the step and touch of a premier player. Other injuries – ankle, a knee tendon – force him every time to leave from the bottom and work hard, on the physique and on trust.
Anjorin restart
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Until last summer, when Empoli bets on him. In Tuscany, Anjorin lived the most continuous season of his career, playing 1118 minutes within 22 games, with two goals and three assists. Roberto D’Aversa sided him above all Mezzala, giving him a lot of freedom. The nets arrived at the end of the tournament, both beautiful, against Venice for the 2-2-return from the left and right on the second post-and against Parma for the 2-1-Gran Botta at the intersection from outside. From the beginning, however, English had impressed by physical presence, rhythm, variety of blows, reading of the game. Now he wants to confirm himself in A with the stature that belongs to him, that of the great player.
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