The young Inter striker broke the ice: the first goal in Serie A and an increasingly important presence in Chivu’s choices. The stages are burning: in a month debut in the Champions League and in the national team
Pio Esposito found the way of the goal, his first in Serie A with the Inter shirt and the most awaited by the Inter people who adopted this 2005 class striker who grew up in the youth sector and now inserted on a stable basis in the Rosa di Chivu. The Rompigiaccio goal arrived in Cagliari at the minute number 82 of a game first dominated and then complicated. Heavy goal, which confirms the goodness of the choice of managers to remove Esposito from the market after having aggregated it for the Club World Championship in the United States obtaining a center against River Plate.
The start of the season of the young talent was positive. The signature on the scoreboard was missing, only that. Now there is. Third presence in the championship, a total fourth, also counting the debut in the Champions League on the Night of Amsterdam, in the home of the Ajax. And also the satisfaction of the first time with the blue shirt of the greats, because Gattuso has set his eyes on Pio and has already included it in the group that the world championship of next summer has to pursue.
Third of three brothers all grown with the Inter shirt, the others are Salvatore and Sebastiano. The last vintage in Serie B with La Spezia scored his definitive explosion: 19 goals and title of top scorer. They were not enough for the promotion, vanished in the final playoff against the Cremonese, but Esposito in the maximum division has still arrived with his strength. And to stay there for a long time.
Pio Esposito, the physical and technical characteristics
Born in 2005, originally from Castellammare di Stabia and equipped with a statuary physique, Pio Esposito only apparently is a classic ‘9’ number. It is true that he loves physical contact and struggle, the field descends to look for the ball and often cleans him with sides that allow his companions to attack en masse, but his technical characteristics tell of a player who also has great qualities in his feet.
193 centimeters tall for 83 kilos, has great skills as a blowing head And it creates almost all of its markings within the penalty area. It is very rapid in getting rid of and turning in narrow spaces as done in the heart of the defense of the River Plate in Seattle when with his razor heat Armani by erasing the fears of Inter for a qualification for the second phase of the Club World Championship that was complicating.
To fly to the United States aggregated to the rose back from the defeat in the Champions League final, brought together with his brother Sebastiano, Pio Esposito renounced the call in Italy under 21 that the category European Championship has been played ending up beaten by Germany in the quarterfinals. A shame for the coach of the Azzurrini Nunziata, but also an obligatory choice of Inter who wanted to weigh their progress made in the spice also in consideration of market decisions.
