More Dzeko than Ibra It will be the golden year of the blue giant

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A little cross, very delight. Gianluca Scamacca spent most of his young career with a suitcase in hand and around the province: loans, good words and the perennial feeling that something great could happen to him.

It will happen to him because everything suggests that the current season will be his last season with Sassuolo as home and that from here to the finish line of the championship, the interest of Juve and Inter will be joined by top-tier foreign clubs.

The striker who will try, on Sunday, to put the elegant, and almost insurmountable, Gleison Bremer in difficulty in the close duel of the Grande Torino is the most classic expression of what the blue “cantera” means: from the Under 15 to the Under 15 team. 21, Scamacca did not jump a step to get to the national team from the main goal. “The future is his, if we go to the World Cup as I think, Gianluca (Scamacca, ed) will help us win it …”, one of the latest reflections of our coach Roberto Mancini who, next Wednesday, will open the doors of Coverciano for the three-day internship in view of the play-offs at the end of March.

The expression of the blue «cantera» is a nice business card given that colleagues like Donnarumma, Barella or Locatelli, European champions on the night of Wembley last 11 July experienced the same fate. Scamacca has chosen 2022 as his golden year and will do everything to never go off the radar: in the last nine games he has scored seven goals, including goals at San Siro in front of Milan and inside Diego Armando Maradona of Naples. With Berardi and Raspadori he has found the right harmony, in Sassuolo he has conquered the degrees of owner after a slightly uphill start: when we talk about him we think of Ibrahimovic for physicality, attitude and movements, but, remaining in the world of comparisons, the characteristics bring it closer to Dzeko or Benzema. Football awaits him and perceives him as predestined. Italy needs it because Immobile, in blue, shines less and Belotti is lost: Scamacca likes to take part in the action, retreat, talk to his teammates and do it with the sensitivity that shouldn’t belong to a boy of almost two meters and on the pitch to score.

Up to now, Bremer has extinguished the ambitions of anyone who has presented himself in his part: to ask the king of the goal Vlahovic, forced to raise the white flag in the Fiorentina poker grenade ten days ago. The face to face with Scamacca announces itself as one of the Sunday themes and as the point where the confrontation can be decided: Toro dreams of Europe, Sassuolo another magic of the boy with the suitcase ready. –