The Olympico in Rome took a heavy toll on the promising career of Nicolo Zaniolo and smells demiral

• Demiral gets treatment. An unpleasant injury

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• Federico and Lavarda. Does what he knows

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The offense. As Federico Valverde chased Albero Murata this week in the 115th minute of the Spanish box office final, he was presided over by sentences he heard as a child from his ancestors. "My son, us Uruguayans go through either the ball or the player, but never both of them together"; "Honey, we Uruguayans are sacrificing ourselves for the team."

Against those sounds, and without thinking too much, Valverde trimmed the athlete's striker, got a red card and saved Real for the game and retrospectively won the trophy. What has been interpreted by others as a dirty or dangerous act, and rightly so, is tantamount to education from Valverde's point of view. Just as Brazilian does Pedaldella and Spaniard accurately strip, so the Uruguayans cut without thinking about the consequences.

Their football folklore is full of stories of players who have done an extreme act for the sergeant - prevented golf by hand, hit the grass-high ball, stopped attacks on their bodies and bones - and Federico did just what he learned in the crib. It is precisely this cut, which seems to contradict the tremendous talent of the midfielder, that has made him a symbol of Real Madrid and the new hero.
Many players know how to conquer and cook, but few are the ones who know what to do, whatever the price.

The injury. All injuries are severe, this is important to emphasize, but there are injuries that become cruel due to a combination of the injured person's identity, the time point, and the severity of the injury. For example - that of Brazilian Ronaldo in April of 2000.

At 24, at his peak, Inter's star tore the cross lap in front of Lazio, causing the soccer world to shed a metaphorical tear on a promising career that veered off track. Ronaldo did return to win the World Cup in 2002 and provided a few more good seasons after that, but he always had the question "What would have happened if he hadn't been injured like that?"

At the same stadium where Ronaldo fell in 2000 - the Olympico in Rome - two collapsed the other day: Niccolo Zaniolo and the smell of Demirel. The 20-year-old Rome star crossed the entire field in a spectacular slalom - as if telling the good news and then the bad - before bumping into Rivio and De Licht and tearing the knee ligaments.

Juventus's 21-year-old got into the ball a minute after he conquered one, and also tore the straps at his landing. Thus, in the space of 17 minutes, two serious injuries became brutal. Two young talents, the present and the future of Italy and Turkey fell at a career high and there is no telling how and when they will rise. They were supposed to meet each other at the Euro 2020 opening match at the Olympico in Rome, but a brutal injury would probably prevent them, and us.

Aguero. Not trying to be like Henry // Photo: IP

The actor. The most common sentence heard in the second that Sergio Aguero passed Thierry Henry in the Premier League foreign title standings with 177 goals versus 175 was: "Aguero is good, but he is not Thierry Henry." That is, people do not want to give in to numbers, they want to express their opinion based on eyes and memory, and it is difficult to argue with anyone who claims that the French has sprinkled more magic powder than the Argentine.

Henry really was a phenomenal, juggler, magician, but in Aguaro's defense it would be said that his greatest charm was that there was nothing magical about him. He had never breathed admirably, omitted jaws, pulled out rabbits - just wanted to conquer and lead the group to degrees.

Mika Richards, who was in Citi the day Aguero landed for the senior training, said this week that the solid Argentine was nothing special. No wow effect, no Abra Cadra, nothing. "I didn't think he was a good player at all," the defender said, admitting to having committed suicide. Because at first glance and second Aguero really seems ordinary, endearing and sympathetic, but looking at the most important thing for him - the conqueror's table - is the most special of all the foreign players.