The desire to do well inside inflames him and the comparison that Spalletti made between him and Sinner exalts him. Federico Chiesa is ready to experience a European Championship as a protagonist to redeem a 2023-24 season that was certainly not exciting. The Italian striker spoke to Uefa.com and, although without talking about the transfer market and the situation that concerns him (contract expires in 2025; his stay at Juventus is far from certain) he also sent a message to his friend Morata.
REASONS
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Enrico’s son started with his motivations: “I’m 26 years old, there’s time and I’d like to demonstrate already in this European Championship what I’m made of. At the last European Championship I scored in the semi-final against Spain and the emotions of that goal wonderful, I still carry them inside. Now we start a new tournament, with new challenges and a tough group: we only have to think about this. We no longer have two champions like Chiellini and Bonucci, but there are future absolute champions in our team good group, a good national team and we will try to show the football that the coach wants and to go as far as possible.”
me and sinner
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Then he spoke about the comparison with Sinner: “After Euro 2020 I wanted to try to enter among the top of world football, but unfortunately I broke my cruciate and had a long rehabilitation process. My goal is always to return among the top : I’m twenty-six, there’s time and I’d like to show already in this European Championship what I’m made of. The comparison with Sinner pleased me but he plays an individual sport: it’s a bit different to be number 1 there, it’s different. an incredible thing… Tennis is a sport that I admire so much and Sinner, seen from the outside, seems like a good guy, with a good head on his shoulders who only had one thing in mind, to be first. He did it and we have to do it the compliments”.
MESSAGE TO MORATA
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Then on his ex-teammate Morata: “Unfortunately we no longer speak but when we played together at Juve we got on well together. He is a great person and a top player.” A perhaps non-causal phrase, to be read from a market perspective, even if Chiesa’s Juventus future is in the balance.
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TRUST IN ITALY
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Final with the objectives for Euro 2024: “We want to demonstrate our value, just like in the last European Championship which we then won. Afterwards we will have to try to return to playing in a World Cup after the last two failed qualifiers. This is something that for our people , for the Italian football movement, isn’t it good. Scamacca? I get along well with him and we also talk often off the pitch. The doubts that there are now about the team were also there in the last European Championship Albania we will have Spain and Croatia and we know what it means to play against them. Now let’s focus on Albania who knows us and knows what Italian football means: it will be a really tough challenge and we will have to be very focused.
