Di Rodrigo assists Di Maria in the final against Brazil. The diez in the coming days will bind to Atletico Madrid
UDINE. He chose the best way Rodrigo De Paul to finally leave Udinese: winning the America’s Cup. He did it in his last days as a Juventus player as his move to Atletico Madrid could even be a matter of hours.
Argentina did not win in a trivial way. First of all because he did it in the home of Brazil, at the Maracana, where Messi and his teammates had lost the 2014 world final to Germany. And De Paul’s game was not trivial either, judged by many to be the best of the Albiceleste and not only for the tracer with which he sent Di Maria into the goal, able to mock the Seleçao goalkeeper with a measured lob.
The ten Juventus played a total match, the mix of quantity and quality that he has always put in his last two years at Udinese. The action in which, like any midfielder, he went after Neymar tackling him almost as Pinzi did in Liverpool on Downing is eloquent.
A total player, we said, who will love his new coach, Cholo Simeone. If De Paul today has become a player of this level he owes it to his skills, his intelligence, but also to Udinese who knew how to wait for him. Because, it should be remembered, Rodrigo’s first three years under the Rizzi team were not the same as the last two in terms of performance and personality on the pitch, when the Argentine often and willingly took the team on his shoulders. In his growth, a bit of credit must certainly also be given to Luca Gotti who worked on the head and on the technical qualities of Don Rodrigo.
Udinese are celebrating Argentina’s victory in the America’s Cup because in the team of coach Scaloni there were two other bianconeri, or rather one and a half to be precise. Juan Musso, in the stands on the night between Saturday and Sunday, he had started the America’s Cup as a goalkeeper for Udinese, he finished it as number 1 of Atalanta.
And then there is Molina. The national team did not even know what it was before arriving in Friuli a year ago. It was in black and white that he caught the attention of Scaloni and his collaborators. He earned a starting place almost immediately in this America’s Cup, was replaced after 45 ‘in the semifinal won on penalties with Colombia (the boy still has some defects in the defensive phase) and remained on the bench for 90’ with Brazil , but this victory is also very much his.
Unless there are sensational twists, Molina will stay in Udine and therefore in the next season Gotti will be able to count on a stronger player because he has grown in terms of experience and self-esteem.
Leo Messi deserves a last quote, who has little to do with Udinese but who is still the best player on the planet today. He won his first “real” title with Argentina, after the 2008 Beijing Olympics, erasing what until two days ago was the only black hole of his extraordinary career. Right so. How right it is that De Paul goes to play the Champions League. In Friuli they will continue to cheer for him.
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