Maybe they haven’t told him yet – after all he just arrived, why overload him… -, but sooner or later someone in Füllkrug will certainly mention it: Niclas, do you know that you took the worst number for someone who is a center forward at Milan for a living? He will ask why and it will be explained to him that after His Majesty’s Inzaghi goal, the number 9 shirt was like a laser in a force 9 sea: tossed here and there, water on all sides, ungovernable. Many argue that it was SuperPippo who launched an anathema: after me, no one will have the same luck with that number on their back. Since Inzaghi said goodbye, the situation has actually been embarrassing: 12 players have taken the number 9 and, with the exception of Giroud (and, in part, André Silva), almost no one has escaped the curse.
