The French striker: “I was Nerazzurri as a child. Thanks to my prosecutor I fell in love with the songs of Ornella. He has such a French voice …”
“Accepting this strange appointment (not) was a madness”, Sing Ange-Yoan Bonny, the new Inter star, 21 years old with head and thirty-year-old flavors. Chivu is the father who wanted him after time together with Parma and is now ready to launch him on the stage of San Siro: the two Nerazzurri goals in the pre -season are only the initial notes of the Frenchman.
Bonny, are the friendlies ended: ready for the championship?
“We prepared as it should. The friendlies used me to start understanding how the play team, what I can be more useful and what the companions expect from me. Much of the group had been known for years, but we too are also adapting well: the preparation has been hard, but the legs begin to turn …”.
So is it true that you struggled so much?
“Yes, it was beautiful toasted: the intensity of training is the thing that struck me most, but it is necessary. You realize that you are putting petrol in the tank and that you will need you after. Seen the objectives in front, a team like Inter must be ready to play many games and leave behind anything”.
How do you evaluate this first Nerazzurri month?
“It was adaptation, discovered, also effort, but everything really beautiful. I arrived in a completely new world, but the companions welcomed me how I was one of them … brother. I should list them all because, together, they make an almost familiar atmosphere heard”.
The head of the family is Chivu: happy to find it?
“The relationship with him has not changed, is the same Mister of Parma, at a higher level, but with equal qualities. It is direct, demanding, honest. I am very happy to have crossed it at the right time of his career: I owe him a lot, if I am here it is also thanks to him. Now I am very loaded and I will try to take my space because this is only the beginning. But I like this beginning …”.
Is it true that he refused other big names for Inter?
“Different teams wanted me but I had no doubts: when Inter look for you, you don’t think twice. This team was what I asked, here I wanted to live my dream as a child. Just signed, I put on social media a photo taken as a child in the Nerazzurri: it was destiny … that was the first football shirt bought by mom at six years old, I am linked to life. And then this is a very French club, given the champions he had”.
Speaking of French, is that 14 he wears a quote from Henry?
“No, it is that the 13th was busy and I slipped from one. The 13th is the number I have always had because I all say, my family was born that day: father, mother, brother, sister …”.
Do you feel the weight of having been paid 23 million with a single true year of a shoulders?
“They are just numbers, they don’t have to weigh. It is not my job to think about the price, but sweat because I have a lot to improve. In all, but in two things in particular: the coldness in the door, because I have to score more, and also the air game”.
With Thuram and Lautaro in the team, the teachers are not lacking.
“I study them, I try to understand the nuances, the way they move, with or without the ball, I do it to try one day to get closer to their level: now I am very far away. Both Lautaro and Thuram have told me two simple things, from older brothers: the first, ‘amused’. The second, ‘always looks for the door’, because we are attackers and we are also evaluated on the goals we make”.
Do you like being called the “new thuram”?
“Of course, but I only know for the physical similarity …”.
In such an attack, where would you prefer to play?
“Here we can all play with everyone. Even all together, why not? I like to do the second tip and I can also do the center forward, if it served. But I also feel good starting from behind. The fact of having done for years the midfielder in the youth team helps me to read the situations on the trocar and understand the movements of others”.
Do you feel a special affection of the fans for you and Pio?
“I feel attention and love, I noticed it in the friendlies and now I just wait for the scream to San Siro. Between me and Pio there was immediate feeling and not only because we are young, but because we look like each other. He is too polite, he has clear ideas, feet on the ground and we did not mount our heads. We had played against U21 and even then he had impressed me: he has incredible physical strength, can he say that he is a beast?”
But she too grew up quickly in Parma …
“I arrived at 17, alone. At the beginning it was not easy in a new country and with a different language, but in Parma I spent wonderful years”.
What remains of the judo practiced by a child?
“Everything is needed to build a mentality and a physique. My mom had enrolled me at Judo a little at random, but I have many good memories, even if in the end it was not enough to get tired: for me the tatami was too small and I preferred to run on the pitch. I love many other sports, from basketball to the Padel, then to Ping Pong I am strong, even if I have not challenged anyone here”.
What boy is Ange-Yoan off the pitch?
“A normal 21 year old, who likes to be in the family, go out with friends, play the play and see some nice series: the last one is called Mobland. I am very religious and, for this reason, I am committed to being respectful with everyone: being players do not make us superior … My mother made me passionate about music, soul and jazz. Before entering the field I listen to the same song, Everything in ITS RIGHT PLACE of Radiohead “.
Surprising tastes also in Italy?
“Yes, Ornella Vanoni, my favorite. The first time I listened to her at my prosecutor’s house struck me that voice, it was so French …”.
But do you know that Vanoni is Milanist?
“What does it matter when I listen The appointment I feel something magical. It’s like scoring a goal. “
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