Samp-Juve, Giovinco the ex poisoned – La Gazzetta dello Sport

A story of love and misunderstanding. A past that comes back tomorrow, surprisingly, against the backdrop of Marassi. Even if it is not known if and how much he will play, but in the meantime he will be there, seven years later. The implied subject is Sebastian Giovinco, born in Turin of Calabrian parents 35 years ago. A football globetrotter who has won championships in three different continents and the equivalent of the Champions in Asia and America, after starting from the Juve youth teams.

From origins to breakup

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With the black and white jersey he made his professional debut in the year of his return to Serie A (2006-2007). After a season on loan in Empoli and his debut in Serie A, Giovinco, renamed the “Atomic Ant” for a physicist who is certainly not statuesque, but gifted with great technique, sprint and skill in the strait, is recalled to the parent company in 2008- 2010: 34 appearances and 3 goals do not convince the top management, it will be in the two years following Parma that Giovinco explodes (66 appearances and 22 goals), inducing Juve to redeem his co-ownership. And we are at Juve-ter, the last phase in Juventus for him, interrupted after two and a half championships thanks to a relationship with Allegri who, euphemistically, does not take off.

World Tour

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Meanwhile Giovinco, between 2008 and 2015, played 89 games and scored 12 goals in Serie A with the Juventus shirt and also won two Italian Super Cups (2012 and 2013) and two Scudetti (2013 and 2014), graduating Vice-champion of Europe with Prandelli’s national team in 2012. Tired of always having to prove to be up to someone and something, the good opportunity comes from across the ocean, when he is 28 years old: in 2015 he doesn’t think twice and flies in Toronto, in 2019 he will widen his tour stopping two years in Saudi Arabia, at Al-Hilal, everywhere winning team and individual trophies, except for “catching the train” which, at the end of the repair market, at the age of 35 brought back to Italy, depositing it in Genoa on the Samp side, the Juventus opponent on Saturday.

Those four former goals

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“With Conte I was renewing my contract with Juventus, then Allegri arrived … But I don’t feel I have failed – explained Giovinco’s decision to move to Canada -. Del Piero? The comparison weighed. The renewal was close, then Silence fell with me while the club let my agents know that the new coach had other ideas. Allegri didn’t tell me anything. Never. He’s a good coach, the results are with him. But everyone has his own methods. ” . From there a not exactly circular world tour (he started from Turin, landed in Genoa, where he found another ex, already his Juve partner, the timeless Fabio Quagliarella) which ended a month ago, on the 9th. February with the signing of a contract until June. And speaking of circularity, tomorrow Giovinco will find himself facing the beloved-hated colors: against his former team he has already scored four goals in six Serie A games, all with the Parma shirt (as against Udinese, but in 13 challenges), so much so that Juve is the team he has most perforated. In his first year in the yellow and blue the Formica Atomica scored a brace in the 4-1 with which Parma won in Turin and also the winning goal in the return, in the following season it was Juve to pass with the result of 4-1, and Giovinco signed the goal of the flag. Will it be a coincidence? If it is, it’s a strange case. Even if time, as we know, dilutes a lot and dilutes a lot …