Juve, Morata became a man in Turin. And with Pirlo

He left Juve because he had done too well in Turin. Twenty-seven goals and 16 assists in two seasons, heavy goals in key moments, in the Champions League and beyond: it is impossible that Real does not exercise the “buy back”, a clause that made us famous with him and that a few years later, It became an instrument of capital gains and the mezzuccio was abolished to close balance sheets. He left Turin without being able to express what he experienced basically as a disappointment: he was going to Real Madrid, it would have been difficult to understand. He left with that message full of love and promises from eternal Juventus. Ok, these are words that are written, sometimes thought, often forgotten. In Álvaro Morata’s case, however, they were real. And now he can feel like a Juventus player again. In that summer of 2016 Chiellini said: “I don’t see how he won’t be able to play for Real for ten years, he has incredible skills.”

IN THE CITY’

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There was only one year left, he lived behind the back, almost in the shadow, of a then untouchable BBC (Bale-Benzema-Cristiano). Yet he scored 20 goals, in less than 2,000 minutes, enough to reignite the market. Then Chelsea and Atlético, without finding the magic again. That was in Turin: the best Morata was Juventus. And Álvaro never, they say, felt comfortable as in that biennium, in which he became a true player (as a reserve of the Real, although awarded with the “Tenth”) and in which he built the foundations of his life ” adult “. He came to Italy as a young bachelor and was located in the center of Turin, for a long time he welcomed a friend with whom he enjoyed riding karts. He made the fortune of a small number of restaurants that fed him, and of an amateur who, seen entering the brewery with his shirt, was invited to dinner and remedied another signed. He became Zaza’s “brother”, who will meet again “cousin”. But in the period under the Mole there was above all the meeting with Alice Campello: he actually met her in Milan at a “fashion” evening and then he married her in Venice, but that was the period. He will return to the city with her, pregnant with her third child (the first two are twins).

IN THE COUNTRYSIDE

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Off the field, well, I was happy. Inside too. His best season is still the first (with Pirlo’s teammate), in which he replaced Llorente and never left him, until the final in Berlin, marked with the momentary tying goal. Allegri threw it and prodded it with some constancy: as soon as he saw it diminish in intensity or concentration, the scream died away. It worked and how, so much so that Álvaro scored 5 goals in Europe, all from the second round, finishing in the ideal team of the tournament. In the second year he started as immovable, and ended up losing ground in favor of the emerging Dybala. However, two of Juventus’ Morata’s highest moments are from 2015-16: the first is linked to a painful elimination, against Guardiola’s Bayern. Álvaro played a great game: the 2-0 action saw him start from his front row, jump or dodge Alaba, Benatia, Kimmich, Lahm and Vidal and give Cuadrado the outside assistance. He started in the 72nd minute, from 73 ‘Bayern scored two goals, four including the extra 30’. In extra time he scored instead in the Italian Cup final (second moment): he started on the bench, he finished with the cup. You can start over from there.