Better than the Netherlands? And Lachowicz is the real thing

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December 2019, just before we even knew what a corona was. Inter are trailing 0-1 in Artemio Franki en route to a win over Fiorentina, and Vicenza Montella, the Viola coach, was at a loss after the injury of his star, Federico Keiza, in the 59th minute. He looks left and right at the bench and pulls out a 19-year-old Serbian boy, Dusan Valahovic by name. It is doubtful whether the coach himself imagined that 32 minutes later, the same tall boy would save him a dramatic point against the second best team in the boot country.

And Ahovitch was pretty anonymous in those days, but you could say that moment was a turning point in his career. The goal he scored signaled what the football world would see from the Serbian talent, who for every 190 centimeters, took a lost ball from the halfway line, galloped towards the extension, took one-on-one Milan Shakinarier, one of the best, most physical and fastest stoppers in Serie A, all the way to a huge missile On the left foot to the far corner and a celebration with the fingers on the ears, as if he has already scored dozens of such goals throughout his career. And he’s only 19 years old.

Fiorentina and Dusan Valachovic players in a frenzy (Reuters)

Two years later, it can be said that Volakhovich met all expectations and even beyond. 46 goals in 103 appearances in the Fiorentina uniform made all the giants of Europe stare at him. Christian Vieri, Gabriel Batistuta, another goal and another goal, and the comparisons are only gaining momentum. But the truth is that the reason for the striker’s high demand across the continent stems mainly from its uniqueness. How many pioneers do you already know who rise to a height of 190 centimeters who are also fast with the ball, also have a tremendous exit from the place, a formidable head game and a fine left foot? Probably very little, if any.

Valachovic managed to finish his full debut season in the Fiorentina seniors with six goals and two assists, but the leap came last year. Federico Casa, who mainly staffed the central striker position at Fiorentina, left Juventus. The viola started the season badly under coach Yakini, replacing veteran Cesare Farandelli, who believed in his Serbian AS from the start. Valachovic, who scored one league goal in the first 12 rounds, became the goal man at the edge of the viola and exploded with 20 goals in the remaining 26 rounds. With 15 more he has scored in 17 appearances this season, he is ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo, Leo Messi, Killian Ambape and Arling Holland on the list of scorers in the major leagues in a calendar year, seeing the back of how not, Robert Lewandowski, and Patrick Schick with one goal ahead of him.

Duchamp and Lachowicz (Reuters)Duchamp and Lachowicz (Reuters)

Last season, as mentioned, made Valowicz one of the hottest goods on the continent. Atletico Madrid and Tottenham have already been mentioned as being in touch with the signing of the player Fiorentina demanded 70 million euros, but eventually the Spaniards signed Brazilian Mathews Konya and Harry Kane finally stayed with the English. And yet, if Velachovic had really wanted to, he would probably have found himself upgrading professionally as early as last summer. He probably still maintains loyalty and appreciation for the team that signed him when he was 18, the one that recognized the tremendous potential that lies in him despite a single goal he scored in 21 appearances in the partisan Belgrade uniform.

“I decided to stay because of the team that was built here,” he said And to AhowitzIn September, “We will see at the end of the season if it was a good decision, I think it is because I pressed my heart,” the striker added, and he was right. In Fiorentina a fantastic team was built, standing at the center as the main executor, just as we saw in the mighty 3: 4 over AC Milan that reminded oblivion to the crowd of Artemio Franki, who has experienced mostly disappointments in the last decade.

For Valowicz, the win over the Rossoneri was really not “another game.” And no, it’s not because of the wonderful duo he won and the cooking he added against the team that had not lost until that evening, but because he defeated his “idol” – Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Since he was a child, Lachowicz sees the Swedish giant as a “model”. At the end of the big evening, in which he also saw up close how a pair of Zlatans were not enough for the Rossoneri’s comeback, and Ahovitch did not miss the opportunity to talk to his hero. “He told me to keep doing what I do and never give up. I did not talk too much, however, it’s hard to talk when you see your childhood hero. This whole game felt like a dream for me, “said Valajovic, who also exchanged shirts with Zlatan, who even wrote a Serbian dedication to the Fiorentina star.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Reuters)Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Reuters)

Velahovic will be 22 in the summer. In 2004, Zlatan made the move from Ajax to Juventus, he was then 23 years old and realized that progress towards the next goal is inevitable. Valahovich, whose contract expires in the summer of 2023, also understands this. Fiorentina have also come to terms with the fact that they will not be able to stand in the way of the striker and although they will try to sell him to a team outside Serie A, it seems that he himself is locked up to do as his hero did, and sign for Juventus. This is not like the great Yuba that Zlatan has reached, but all the reports in Italy in the last month indicate that this is not really a detail that matters to the Serbian. Arsenal, who have already experienced the same story with Manuel Lucatelli who eventually moved to Juventus in the summer, have once again faced a player refusal to come to them, despite being willing to pay Fiorentina the amount they ask for, compared to just € 50 million offered by the old lady to land the star.

If Arsenal were the only ones facing Yuba on the Serbian scorer, then in the ‘Yuba Store’ in Turin they could have already started printing Valachovic’s name with the number ‘9’ on the club’s shirts, but that’s not the case. Manchester City, who urgently need a striker, will not give up the option to sign Valowicz, with Tottenham and Liverpool also in the picture, as well as Paris Saint-Germain, who are already preparing a backup plan for Killian Ambape, who will probably land at Real Madrid this summer.

Duchamp and Lachowicz (Reuters)Duchamp and Lachowicz (Reuters)

In exactly one year, Valowicz is expected to be the starting striker for the Serbian national team at the World Cup in Qatar. The player, who has surpassed in a hierarchy of pioneers like Luca Jovic and Alexander Mitrovic, started the same memorable game in Lisbon, ending with Mitrovic coming off the bench giving the team of Dragan Stojkovic a dramatic 1: 2 that sent the Serbs home and Portugal and Ronaldo to the playoffs. “I came to him after the game, of course he was very nervous,” said Velahovic about the meeting with the Portuguese phenomenon at the end. “He told me it’s all because of his unapproved goal even though he crossed the line in the game between us in the first round, I wished him good luck, but he said they would advance through the playoffs because they have one of the best players in the world.”

Valachovich’s numbers have made him a prospect with all the continent’s lions, but it’s not just about the goals he’s conquering and the cooks he provides. This is a striker who is a constant danger on the goal, one that the brakes are very difficult to deal with as he is very fast in relation to his dimensions, allowing him to play with both face and back to goal, as he cooked the wonderful goal for Ricardo Saponara. Valachovic averages 3.2 kicks per goal per game, which puts him in seventh place in this category in Serie A, with number one Chiro Immobilia already behind him in the table of goalscorers, and needed at least one more chance in the game (4.1) to reach the number of goals.

Dusan Valahovic in Serbia national team uniform (Reuters)Dusan Valahovic in Serbia national team uniform (Reuters)

And Lahovic will not play for Fiorentina next season, with the only question left open being who will win the services of the formidable Serbian scorer. Recently the owners of Fiorentina, Rocco Comiso was asked about it and said that he would do his best to keep the star in Florence against all odds: “We made him a very significant offer, we offered him to be the highest earner in Fiorentina history. We even improved the offer, but despite our efforts, all of these offers were not accepted. “

As mentioned, according to all the reports and despite the publications about the interest of every possible top team in the Premier League, Lachowicz himself expressed interest in moving exclusively to Juventus. If and when that happens, he will do exactly the same professional upgrade that Zlatan did at the time at more or less the same stage of his career, but he comes to a completely different Juventus, one that thirsts for a star who will take her forward all the way to returning the Scudetto to Juventus Stadium. With him and with Kaiza up front, the optimism of Old Lady fans can already see it happening, and the entire league is already on absorption standby.

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