Genoese and Genoano has always been, Lorenzo is not yet 19 years old and has amazed by scoring two goals in Bologna
Lorenzo Venturino also repeats it on Instagram: “I wear the Genoa shirt since I was 7 years old”. He writes it under more than one post. A look at his profile is sufficient to understand that in the heart he possesses, as De André teaches, sacred love and profane love: the vast majority of photos is dedicated to the second, the ball. But there is no lack of space for the sacred one. Which is named Carolina. Lorenzo Venturino da Arenzano, 19 years old on June 22, feeds on passion and gratitude: if I bleed in rossoblù, it is inevitable that at the time of your first goal the emotion takes over. Imagine two minutes in a few minutes …
Other than chill match
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Who knows how many times he will concern Bologna-Genoa, Lorenzo, who has tasted him in the retreat of not even a year ago. Gilardino pointed us out, he didn’t forget. For one raised in the shade of the North it is a dream come true: “I remember a 2014 Genoa-Milan won with Antonelli’s goals: I was at the stadium …”. Historical memory that only those who live in football can possess. Eleven years later he will also have planted his debut as a starter at the Bolognese house. They call them “chill match”, those typical of the season finale, without (real) points up for grabs. But Venturino, a student at the last year of the scientific high school, will hardly have slept the night before the Dall’Ara exam. Also because the brace marked in Ravaglia even approaches him to … Yamal: the phenomenon of Barcelona and the Nigerian of Monaco Ilenikhena (born a couple of months after him) are the only younger ones in the rossoblù Jolly to have scored at least two goals in the top European championships, this year.
In the spotlight
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Venturino belongs to the breed (in the end of the extinction) of the fan rained from the curve to become a footballer: thanks to the mother, also with the griffin in the heart, and of the dad former amateur player. For Genoa he played everywhere: he left center forward, then he gradually moved further back. Vieira, who made him make his debut in January against Roma, in the last with Bologna he placed him on the left, driven by the foot of the opposite Martin and encouraged by the scafate Vitinha. In the first goal with Bologna he won a half dozen of contrasts as only those who are hungry can do. And then? Inevitable hands in his hair, while Mattia Bani, of thirteen years older, raised him in weight to give him that little show of visibility that Lorenzo, if he depended on him, would gladly avoid. It is also Genoese in the character: I work a lot, possibly far away. But under the magnifying glass alive for at least a year. Since June last year, when he won the Under 18 Scudetto with the rossoblù devastating the defenses of Inter (in the semifinal) and Rome (in the final). A goal per game, the vote on the report card who splashed up to 9: “He is the Scudetto man, he does what he wants”, the local newspapers wrote about him. On the evenings that crowned Italian champion galloped on the right: “They never take him, he and Ahanor are two tractors”, they sentenced to the stands. Today they have already evolved in the columns of the Genoa that will come.
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