After the national team, Serie A, Italian Cup and Champions League, the Turk also scored in his first start in the Super Cup
You never forget the first time. For Kenan Yildiz even more: from Türkiye to Juventus, making his debut as a starter in a new competition… he always scored a goal. A fact in which perhaps there is also a hint of destiny (given that the Juventus number 10 against Milan in the semi-final of the Italian Super Cup, had it not been for Francisco Conceiçao’s injury in the warm-up, he would have started from the bench), but which says a lot about his stigmata of being predestined.
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The Turk’s golden streak begins on 18 November 2023: Vincenzo Montella made him his national team debut in a friendly against Germany in Munich and he, then still eighteen, in the second minute of injury time of the first half, he comes back from the left and puts the ball under the crossbar to Trapp’s left with his right foot. Just over a month later, Allegri launched him as a starter in Serie A for Juve in Frosinone: Yildiz took 12 minutes to slip between three defenders and beat Turati at the near post. On January 4, 2024, then, here is the hat trick, in the Italian Cup: another slalom starting from the left, and another shot at the near post that leaves Fiorillo no chance. However, the most prestigious debut is missing: the one in the Champions League, which arrives on September 17th. The Turk, who in the meantime has left the number 15 shirt to wear the number 10, here does even better than his previous ones: he scores a great Del Piero-like goal against PSV and surpasses his predecessor and idol as Juve’s youngest scorer on his debut in Champions League. Yesterday, finally, the poker of dream debuts, with the goal that opened the Super Cup semi-final against Milan. Although here, his won’t be a record: the youngest to score in this competition remains Balotelli at 18 years and 12 days in Inter-Roma in 2008. But his first time, Yildiz (even if it didn’t go against the Rossoneri good to his family as before), he won’t forget her this time either…