The Turk has earned himself a starting place with class and personality. With that number on their shoulders, in the past, history was made in Turin by Platini (the greatest), Sivori, Del Piero… But it can also be inspired by other phenomena such as Baggio and Zidane
“Yildiz is a 10 like me, a creative, one of those who invents. Take inspiration from Bellingham, Messi, Zidane, I can’t say why he didn’t see me play, he wasn’t born… And stay at the center.” For some, Michel Platini was a do-gooder version when, a year ago, speaking to the Gazzetta, he thus ‘welcomed’ Yildiz finally starting in Thiago Motta’s new Juve. Exaggerated? The prophecy about the coach (“He will open a cycle”) did not come true, the one about the young colleague did. Today Yildiz, thanks above all to Tudor’s shock, can apply to the gallery of the greatest 10 Juventus players of all time. The young Turkish-German has taken over Juve and is playing with personality, class and physique. He invents and sacrifices himself in coverage, marks and sees “highways where others don’t see paths”, to put it like Vujadin Boskov. A driving force who would benefit from having a midfielder next to him, to free him from defensive construction tasks that risk exhausting him. It’s too early to say where he will arrive, but at twenty years old Kenan has already climbed many hierarchies. Platini became Juventus at 27, a complete champion with two World Cups played, one as a protagonist in Spain: but at Juve he ennobled his greatness with a shirt that has welcomed many champions of all eras in Juventus (and even some who had little or even nothing of 10).