The Argentine purchased on Thursday immediately on the pitch. The captain enters the final: he was out of October 5th
The first races of Giovanni da Buenos Aires began from the Valencian land, on a warm summer night. In the house of a club founded in 1919 in a bar of the wonderful city center that named – at that time – Bar Torino (today there is a stumbled stone to remember it). And this would already seem also a sign of fate. Giovanni Simeone undermined his Torinist adventure from here, from the Mestalla, the Casa del Valencia where the Club Granata played and lost 3-0. Everything immediately, without wasting a moment of time because – after all – there is no time to waste now. The desire, temperament and determination of the Cholito were stronger than any other evaluation: he immediately wanted the bull and, in the end, Toro was.
That half hour
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A single true training carried out at Philadelphia was able to be enough (Friday). The Cholito showed up in Turin, Thursday, with a solid preparation carried out, between Dimaro and Castel di Sangro, with Napoli. It was a decisive factor, because it meant that it could immediately join the group. On Friday he left with the team for the retreat of Valencia, last night here he is – immediately – in the fray. Baroni raised him shortly after the beginning of the second half, sending him on the field in the 14th minute of the second half. He gave Adams change, playing abundant half an hour. Of course, it took over at a time when the road had already become uphill for the bull, with the less man and the tiredness that increased. But this half hour of Cholito leaves a trace: he can become the manifesto of the desire that this boy has to become the protagonist in the grenade adventure.
Finally Duvan
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Despite the defeat, which in the end is still football in August and therefore the result is marginal, the trip to Valencia gives an extra smile and, also, unexpected. It is the one served by the menu in the final, when Baroni decided to bring Captain Duvan Zapata back to the field in an official game. The last time of the Colombian had been that terrible night of October 5, in San Siro, in the House of Inter. Which is now very far away. Baroni is not a coach who packs gifts, so if he decided that Duvan on the pitch could be there it is because the Colombian has earned these minutes. For a month and a half he has been working very hard to recover the condition. A sign of great hope was born from yesterday.
Israel and Cobra
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Then there are two other news to report. The first: Baroni launches for the first time in a true test Franco Israel between the posts, after his debut in the second training match in Munich. The second is perhaps the most interesting, and concerns the use of Aboukhlal (the cobra) as an attack outside on the left. The goalkeeper has no faults on the three goals, in the end the feeling is that Israel has saved as possible even without making miracles. Abukhlal, very expected on the eve, turned on some flash. The first indication that jumps to the eye is how its propensity continues to launch, vertically, in the void. In the first part of the evening of Valencia he did it with a discreet continuity, finding an excellent assist for Adams (24 ‘: the grenade undergoing did not hook), then he even scored a goal on the 1-0 but was already in an offside position.
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