Gatti-Juve, who is Frosinone’s defender-goalscorer and why he was chosen

Juve like fairy tales, but above all they look to the substance. The story of the former carpenter and former Juventus player Moreno Torricelli docet, now the lights have shifted to Ludovico Gatti, born in 1998, former bricklayer and former window-maker chosen in January to reinforce the defense from next season onwards. As a kid he played in attack, he had hung posters of Gerrard and Lampard in his room, five years ago he played in Promotion. And now his role is that of central defender. With Allegri who has already publicly “promoted” him talking about him recently: “He is the best defender in Serie B and has characteristics that in the future may allow him to stay at Juve”.

The previous life

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In his home the family supports Turin. He got up at 4 to go to work at the market, in the evening he played football: years in which the boy has tempered himself, forging himself on the mold of sacrifice and ferocious determination. And in the end that “hunger” led him, at the first opportunity and in just over 6 months, to become the revelation player in Serie B and to place a signature that will change his life, the one on the contract that will bind him to Juve until to 2026, he who, having abandoned his studies, said he was willing to even go “to America or Malta in order to continue to cultivate the dream of becoming a footballer”.

The new Chiellini?

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Numerically he took the place of Demiral, waiting to know what Chiellini’s decision will be at the end of the season. And in the meantime he builds valuable experience (so far he has played 2,396 minutes) on the Serie B fields, continuing to wear the Frosinone shirt until June: his team is now seventh, 8 points behind the leading pair formed by Cremonese and Lecce. His contribution is of absolute importance: employed 26 times in the league, always as a starter and once in the Italian cup, he has already produced 4 goals and an assist in the league. His goals earned him 9 points, thanks to victories with Ascoli, Spal (brace) and Vicenza. Disqualified against Monza, he did not miss any match due to injury. He has a good right, vision and personality. So much so that comparisons with Chiellini were not long in coming …