Where did Simone Verdi end? The two goals on punishment and the free yellow

Simone Verdi in 2017 ended up on the sites around the world for the ambidestra brace, curious ballistic practice forbidden to humans: two goals on punishment in the same game, one right and one left. Half of colleagues kicked the last punishment with the weak foot in a training of the very young national teams. He was one of the Italian players of the moment. The Guardian in 2016 had dedicated an articles to him, in which he wondered why Milan could have sold him for one and a half million: “That money, in today’s football, are peanuts”. In recent years, Verdi has given a great hand to save Salernitana and Verona, scored 8 goals for the promotion of Como in A but was not the footballer who hoped to become. He was in the national team with Ventura, but for months he has lived in the aquarium. Zero noises: nobody talks about him anymore. Indeed, when you talk about it … you are wrong.

green (it is not) free

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Simone Verdi in recent weeks has entered into reasoning about the free players, as if it were free from commitments with Como. False: the promotion in A a year and a half ago triggered the option on his contract for 2025-26. It remains to be understood what will happen in the next nine months. Verdi last season played 108 minutes of Serie A with Como, then he went to Sassuolo: two games as a starter, two goals and goodbye. He did not work, so the judgment on him, at 33 years old, risks becoming definitive: a footballer with great qualities, so strong as to score 16 goals in A in two seasons with Bologna but always a little unfinished. Not determined enough to become a protagonist of today’s football.

Serie Ba January

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Como did not include it in the project for 2025-26 and, in the eternal debate if Verdi is a midfielder or a striker, he excluded it from both lists: on the official website of the club, Simone is not in the list of first team players. It is out of the list and it is clear that he will have to wait, reprogram himself and find motivations to start again in January. In the summer he had offers from Türkiye, Greece and Iran, none came to a signature on a contract. And now? The desire to start and return to play is and the Serie B seems the most natural destination. The problem does not seem the money (“in my career I gave up several money to chase the dreams,” he said one day to the province of Como) but if anything the wait, the push to work every morning for something that does not even imagine. The January market, in early September, is a distant horizon.