Feet and instincts of a phenomenon, top football only touched upon in a few fleeting experiences. He played his best football at Fiorentina, paid for pride and inexperience and got lost between drugs and doping. And that time the Juve coach took him aside and told him…
If one, knowing his technical qualities, imagination and dexterity, scrolls through the list of teams in which Adrian Mutu has played, he immediately comes to the conclusion that there must be a mistake. How is it possible that a player with incredible talent, in the end, wore the shirts of great European clubs for only three seasons? Inter, at the beginning of his career, in 2000, Chelsea in 2003-04 and Juventus in 2005-06 (Fiorentina, for which Mutu played from 2006 to 2011, was not at the level of the big continental teams). Where, then, is the mystery? The simplest answer is the following: he had class, his gestures were elegant, he possessed the harmony of champions, but he didn’t have the head to reach the finish line of glory.