Savva’s is a story of timing and learning, no rush, but everything happened when it was supposed to
Zanos Savva or the importance of scouting. Turin he made his debut the second Cypriot in the history of Serie A (the first was Kastanos) and the boy, who started from the Granata Under 18 team, scored a very important goal, crowning a journey that started from afar and began with an intuition. In the summer of 2022 Gianmario Specchia receives a report: a very interesting 17-year-old has made his first team debut at Olympiacos Nicosia. Message to Ruggero Ludergnani and then off to the observation. Timing had been everything. Savva had ended up in the sights of many teams, in particular Sporting. The manager of the Granata youth team convinced the boy first of all and from there the rest is history.
Turin and Savva: the Granata story
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The route in grenade then says a lot about Zanos. In these situations we tend to talk about a boy who has jumped ahead, but this is not the case with him. Savva took it one step at a time. Scurto’s retirement with the Primavera in 2022, the training period with Antonino Asta’s Under 18 team and his return to the Primavera, until his retirement to the first team in 2023 complete with goals against FeralpiSalò. The Cypriot’s secret is his ability to learn. Juric himself had underlined this in the past, explaining that it was the feature he likes most about Zanos. On the other hand, in football, knowing how to learn quickly is fundamental. Savva is like this. It is no coincidence that he played a role that was not his to play well on his debut in Serie A and that he made a movement that has hardly been seen this year from the Granata wingers. At the first opportunity, however, he did it and scored.
His ability to learn cannot be seen from these details alone. Another example? After less than two years in Italy he speaks fluent Italian. Something not to be underestimated. The linguistic knowledge, then, will have helped him even more in understanding the advice she received during this period. Now it is being completed, but in three years of Toro he has already played three different roles: the high winger on the right, the second striker and now the full winger on the left. The credit for the growth goes to everyone. We praised those who brought him and the boy himself, but there is also hidden work on the part of the technical staff who followed him. An example? This year at the beginning of the season, to teach him to exploit certain situations more, Scurto positioned him as a second striker, also a way to bring him closer to the attacking midfielder role used by Juric. In the goal scored in Verona there is also this: knowing how to read the insertion times and take a position in the area. Now, over time, it must be made to grow. He has shown that he knows how to learn quickly.
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