"It's powerful." "Goal scorer". "He Runs like the father." Valentino López, the eldest of the three children of Maxi López and Wanda Nara, is about to turn 14 and has the dream of being a soccer player
, just as his father did during his 20-year career until his retirement in 2021. The boy breathes football.
It is that his stepfather (ex-stepfather?),
Mauro Icardi,
also had and continues to have an important career in football.
Without going any further, the former PSG is already beginning to show his best attributes at Galatasaray and yesterday he dispatched with a double to turn the game against Ümraniyespor.
Valu, as he is nicknamed in his family, shows his great goalscoring ability game by game: he played in the Under 13 team of
Paris Saint Germain
and came to have an average of one goal per game.
Before, he went through the
Milan
academy and
now a new possibility is opening up for him, this time in Argentine soccer.
The blond-haired boy was on trial for ten days at River Plate
and caught the attention of the youth coaches "because of his tremendous resemblance to his father."
Valentino has just been confirmed in the lower ranks of Millionaire, a club of which he is a fan.
His father, Maxi López, played there between 2001 and 2004, scored 13 goals in 56 games played and had a good performance, despite being marked by a missed penalty against Boca in the semifinals of the 2004 Copa Libertadores.
After returning from Turkey after his fleeting stint in the Galatasaray Under-14s, Valentino shared images on his Instagram account that showed him preparing in Argentina for the upcoming challenges.
"Preseason in Argentina",
said the text of the post that shows him together with Benedicto and Constantino, his two brothers.
Maxi López was the one who managed to get his son tested at River and paid him a personal trainer during this beginning of the year when they were in Argentina, all with the aim of giving a boost to his desire to be a professional soccer player.
"Love you.
Although it hurts me to see you grow and the changes they cause in the family, I am the happiest.
It is so difficult to find a purpose and a passion of the soul in life, ”she wrote two days ago to her mother who was leaving for Turkey with the rest of her children who would meet Mauro Icardi again.
And little Valentino didn't get on the plane because he had to fulfill his commitment to the Millionaire.
Wanda completed the message that pointed to her son's early vocation: “And you have it when you're so little.
May nothing and no one distract you from your goal and may your dreams be the engine of your sacrifice”.
Icardi's double
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