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A 20-year-old from Vällingby received a ball on the edge of the penalty area in Turin.
A controlled direct left end later, had frozen time and gave the Swedish soccer audience an unforgettable moment of brilliance.
Dejan Kulusevski couldn’t have greeted a demanding new Juventus daily life in a more compelling way than this.
Even before the team had time to step onto the pitch, it was clear that this debut at the great Swedish club was something completely different from anything else we have experienced.
With last season’s “Young Player of the Year” award in his fists, 20-year-old Dejan Kulusevski entered the Allianz Stadium, in his first competitive match with the black and white Juveränder, as the winner even before he had time to play. touch a soccer ball.
An award that he won in the colors of Parma but that he had to present at Juventusskrud.
A new outfit that just hopes you’re a winner. A costume that he also had to wear for the first time as the attacking partner of perhaps the most notorious, stubborn and successful winner in soccer history.
You’ll hear it for yourself – a backdrop that could make any 20-year-old Swede collapse with nervousness and book the best first flight home to colder latitudes and further north.
But Dejan Kulusevski is no ordinary 20-year-old.
So the cold was brought to Turin.
An amazing first piece
In the name of honesty, the Swede had hardly been seen until then when that ball, with not even a quarter played, suddenly rolled forward to the edge of the penalty area after a failed raid by Ronaldo and a rebound on the Sampdoriaback.
Swedish rookie Jude replied coldly. A cold that could have repaired polaris and displaced the impending doom of global warming on Earth a few hundred years from now. A cold that froze time.
And that was luck.
By that time, you, as a spectator of Swedish football, will never want to forget it. As a spectator of Swedish football, you will never forget that moment.
He was a sensitive left winger who in a twisted way looked past the perplexed and frozen Sampdoria defenders in the penalty area, deeper into a vacant spot. It was an amazing first piece about the most exciting and challenging chapter yet in the history of the young Swede’s career.
1-0 to Juventus.
Scorer: Dejan Kulusevski.
Welcome to a new megastar.
Won the first battle royal
Of course, he has done similar things before with the Parma jersey (he was brilliant against Sampdoria even this summer) and that is why an elderly woman slipped a lot of money just over six months ago. Which was remarkable in itself during a senior debut season in one of the best leagues in the world.
However, his dignity is entirely different when he now does so in an environment whose rich history of dominance and high demands presuppose continued brilliance.
When Kulusevski does what he does in the Juventus jersey, he not only builds his own brand and claims his own place in one of the most important football clubs in the world. He gives Andrea Pirlo peace of mind and a breather that he hadn’t tried for the sequel. It showed the way on a fairly smooth and sweeping Juventus night overall which, after all, turned nice and undramatic in the end after Bonucci was well placed (on a Kulusevski corner) and Cristiano Ronaldo finally hit the net. after hitting the goal frame, the goalie and the billboards on the way. But most of all, Dejan Kulusevski showed the way to a questionable new project and, for a Juventus on paper, not very scary, where more dents in the already well-stocked title cabinets is an expectation and not a hope.
– Every day is a battle, Kulusevski himself said in his first Juventus press conference after a lot of dizzying days with everything from the adjustment to the number of training plans and the impact on the bench of the national team .
The first real battle, which lasted just over 80 minutes for him, he won; it may be that Pirlo certainly wanted to see him tour more often than in the debut case.
Dejan Kulusevski is guaranteed to know that more battles need to be won in the future so that that moment remains as timeless and historic as it feels in the here and now.
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