Dušan Vlahović yesterday and today
Dušan Vlahović, from the war in Serbia to Juventus: portrait of the boy who came from Belgrade
Belgrade. Serbia. March 1999. The Born He has decided. He drops the bombs. There Balkan question must be resolved. Slobodan Milošević it must be tamed once and for all. It is in that context, under the bombs and the din of the explosions, that it is conceived Dušan Vlahović. The new star of the Juventus. A god’s wrath. January 28, 2000 sees the light. A little less than a year later, on 5 October 2000 Milošević capitulates. Dušan, “child of war”, is not yet a year old. In the meantime, the country needs to be rebuilt. Integrate into the continent.
Fifteen years pass and in the powder magazine of Europe life has started again. Football? The most followed and practiced sport. Balkans, land of great talents. Between the 90s and 00s many children of Serbia they make their fortune in Europe and in Italy. Dejan Savicevic, Predrag Mijatović, Savo Milosevic, Dejan Stankovic. And that great essay by Vujadin Boškov. Waist trainer and social icon post mortem. “Penalty is when the referee blows the whistle …”, his most viral maxim.
June 2017. It’s time for new promises. An Italian sports manager notices a young man and makes him sign a preliminary contract. The manager is Pantaleo Corvinodg of the Fiorentina. The boy is Dušan Vlahović. The purple vertices draw it in Partizan Belgrade. His balance (he is not yet of age) is only one goal in 21 appearances. On 28 January 2018, at the age of 18 he signs the official contract.
First two lean seasons: 40 appearances and 6 goals. In the Fiesole curve the fear of having taken a package makes its way. But a lightning warm a cold December evening of 2019. Dušan he shows everyone what he is capable of and pulls a spell out of his hat. L’Inter from Antonio Conte is ahead and controls the game. At 93rd the purple full-back Dalbert sweep the ball, Vlahović in midfield he pounces on the ball. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven touches, enter the air, left-handed to cross. Dušan drop the bomb. I shoot in the high corner. Impregnable. Goals.
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