First goal in Serie A for Francesco Camarda on the same day as Pio Esposito’s first time. The two talents of Milan and Inter are the future of Italian football as long as they let them grow calmly
Let’s imagine the weekend of Rino Gattuso, who suddenly felt rich. First Pio Esposito and the Network brewed in Cagliari, to silence the debate of those who “Bravo is good, but never pulls”. Then, almost from nothing, the angry head of Francesco Camarda who gave Lecce an unexpected point and to the very young striker Made in Milan the first scoring goal with the greats.
A dream weekend for the technical commissioner of a national team to the perennial search for the number ‘9’ of the present and the future. Who cannot be in the immediate Camarda, of which it must be remembered to be a 2008 class, and perhaps not even Esposito who compared to his colleague is three years older on the identity card and a story already started and who has already given him the title of top scorer of Serie B.
It means that Camarda and Esposito will not solve the urgency of the national team, but for this reason the double event must pass in silence. It has a huge symbolic value, it tells of talent that there is also from us and not only elsewhere and also overturns an metropolitan legend according to which in Italy there is space only for the old, with the boys to station on the bench.
This is not the case, at least not always. When young people are good, they play: even in a big name like Inter where Esposito at the dawn of the season has already put together 6 appearances and 349 minutes on the pitch. And the very young strong young people, such as Camarda who drew in Lecce to accelerate a growth path to which the amateur championship of the future Milan was too close, spring with the other boys and the first team of Max Allegri was too close. Not for lack of courage, but by objective need to put on the physicist, experience and errors that at 17 must give themselves to everyone.
Esposito and Camarda are the future of Italian football, come from the Milan of the ball that pampers them with some excess. Mistake. Both should be allowed to grow with the right calm, which does not mean taking space but adding injections of trust. And they must be kept away from the cloying game of that open sports bar (telephone) for which the success of one is the failure of the other. You don’t need to remove, just add. At least for this time.
