The former Italian coach, throughout his career, has been able to highlight the most technical players. The Turk studies as a false 9, while the Portuguese works to score more
Freeing your imagination is the most immediate way to raise the level: Luciano Spalletti knows something about it. Fantasy which, in black and white, revolves around two twenty-year-olds, one, Kenan Yildiz, a member by right of the party of the predestined, the other, Chico Conceiçao, who has become indispensable if the challenge is to be ignited or put back in order. The former Italian coach has built a career on the wings of creativity, without fear of slowing down or getting burned. So at the time when he announced himself as one of the possible coaches of the future: in Udine, not infrequently, Di Michele and Di Natale had the task of triggering or accompanying Iaquinta up front. The Roman adventure, the Giallorossi side, was colored with imagination with Amantino Mancini and Rodrigo Taddei, two of the most used interpreters in Luciano’s first Rome and, in the Capital, among others, El Shaarawy and Salah were used as Romanist arrows when Spalletti was called to the Capitoline encore. Udine, Rome, but also Inter and, above all, Naples: under Vesuvius, Politano on the right and Kvarastkhelia on the left showed plenty of imagination.
juve, conceiçao must score more goals
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The new Juventus has the ambition of moving up the rankings now that the Bologna stage has shown that it can be done: the general slow trend gives the Bianconeri a chance, the circle has also been squared. Yildiz plus Conceiçao are a guarantee of unpredictability and the object of the Tuscan coach’s attention. Kenan is preparing for a role as a false nine: in Spalletti’s past, the fake center forward was a recurring theme (Totti taught, but he wasn’t the only one) and proposed several times. Chico travels in solitary escape on the right and travels at a top five dribbling average around the old continent: what he lacks for praise is his precision when he glimpses the goal. Twenty-five are his shots in twelve championship matches, 44 one-on-one attempts, two goals, in Verona three months ago and in Villarreal last October 1st. Too little? Maybe, but with the judgment on the twenty-three-year-old Portuguese’s way of experiencing the matches with the numbers that must not enter into a collision course: Conceiçao has the courage to never lower the revs of his engine and the ability to target the opponent with impressive continuity if added to the generosity in running backwards. Spalletti, from the first step at Continassa, was convinced that he was freeing Yildiz from defensive tasks: the young Turk as a winger is inclined to chase the opposing full-back once he loses the ball, while in a more central position he doesn’t have to worry about what the person in front of him has in mind: the energy saved means greater clarity in the area. At the same time, the Tuscan coach knows what Conceiçao can give him thanks to his sensitivity in creating numerical superiority: Zhegrova didn’t shine in the first half against Pafos because the Kosovar, if there is traffic on the right flank, struggles a bit to find the right shot, Chico doesn’t have these problems.
juve, yildiz and the commercial with del piero
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Fantasy and youth, in black and white, are the face of the same coin. And speaking of quality, Yildiz, in the last few hours, found himself next to his idol Alessandro Del Piero. “Not bad…”, Kenan’s response to a depiction of Alex portrayed in one of his magical moments. Del Piero asks for an opinion in an art gallery and football, Yildiz gets excited: the Adidas advert for the ADP clothing line brings history together with the present, the captain who still makes the fans dream with the captain – he was at the Santiago Bernabeu – who must make them dream in a future yet to be written. Yildiz and the one-year renewal until 2030 is the story of something that doesn’t take off, but which remains within the dynamics between the parties: next to Pinturicchio, however, there is a boy who loves to feel at the center of the Juve world. Spalletti, in Bologna, saw first-hand what his players can do if they believe in it: the formation is a question of numbers, you either have the imagination or you can’t. Yildiz and Conceiçao have it, and quite a bit: through them passes the fortunes of a team that, on Saturday evening against Roma at the Stadium, seeks a Champions League Christmas. Not an easy mission, but not impossible in a season that seems to wait.
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