The English champion who overwhelmed Italy is a superb all-rounder. With Mbappé and Haaland it will mark an era
I saw a King. “Great discovery – you’ll think – it’s Jude Bellingham! It didn’t take a genius.” It’s true, he is the genius, not the person who celebrates him. Against Italy it certainly wasn’t his first super match and who knows how many will follow in the next 15 years of the new Child King of world football’s career. But even if Bellingham did better this year, the accelerations with which he tore Italy in two, showing part of his enormous repertoire, remain in his memory. Thinking about it, you see them again in slow motion, like the German officer did Pelè’s overhead kick in Escape to Victory.