Carlos Tevez visited the training session of Inter Milan, current Serie A champion, as part of his stay in Italy where he will join the Senior football of Juventus. After having witnessed last Sunday the classic Juventus lost to Inter (1-0) in Turin, Apache moved this Thursday to the Neroazzurro training center in the town of Appiano Gentile.
Tevez watched the practice of the squad led by Simone Inzaghi and greeted with Javier Zanetti, vice president of the club and former teammate in the Argentine national team, Argentines Lautaro Martínez and Joaquín Correa, and Chilean Arturo Vidal, with whom he played for Juve. According to the article published on the portal of the sports newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport, Tevez will continue his tour of other Italian clubs as he intends to be a coach after disassociating himself as a footballer from Boca Juniors in June last year.
In addition, the official Juventus account shared an interview with Carlos Tevez, who made several revelations about his time in the Turin cast. Among them, he gave a particular definition of Juventus as an institution and how was the reception given to it by a historical such as Gianluigi Buffon. In addition, he recalled the debut and the first talk with Antonio Conte, the coach. His gratitude to President Agnelli and the goal he remembers most with the shirt of the Turin cast.
“When I arrived at Juve, I thought I was coming to a totally different club than I imagined. Then I realized that it is a very big club, but a neighborhood club. In a Juve fan, you see the street reflected. In the institution I left a little bit of my heart. Wearing your club shirt is very nice... Wearing the 10 of Del Piero was an extra for me,” Carlitos acknowledged.
And he told an anecdote with the experienced archer: “On the first day Gigi (Buffon) receives me: he grabs my head and says 'how are you, big one? ' For me it was very strong and, from day one, the commitment was totally different.”
Tevez reviewed his career and also talked about his debut. At this point, he remembered the first words that the coach gave him. “In the first game, Conte knew how much I wanted and said: 'The first ball you go, go with all your strength, because that's how people are going to get up. ' Said and done, in the first one-on-one I went to dispute, people got up and it was another environment.”
“I always tried to do what was best for Juventus. It was the club that understood me when I said I wanted to go back to my home (for Boca Juniors), close to my parents and siblings. At no time did he oppose my decision, which is why I am grateful, to the people, to President Andrea (Agnelli),” he said of that decision to return to Argentina in 2015 and after losing the Champions League final to Barcelona.
And he highlighted the attitude of the top Juventus leader: “One of the presidents who touched me and kept his word on the day he told me that he would accompany me to the plane if we reached the Champions League final. I will always be grateful to Juventus, because they understood me at all times. They are my heart too, they took me to be a big one. And when I decided to go home, they hugged me tight and understood me at all times.”
To finish, Carlitos chose his favorite goal with the jacket of Vecchia Signora, which hides an emotional choice. “It's hard to choose a goal. As I said before, I've always played with my heart at Juve. That's why it's hard to find one. I take the one from Borussia, one of the most important, and with the one in Parma, because my dad was in the stadium. I've always played for him. So, when he was coming, he was my first fan. I came and became the child who played in the neighborhood, with him watching me play. That night was very special, I had just scored a spectacular goal.”
“The love that the fan has for me, the one he gave me every day, was what I needed to later give him what I gave him: my heart. Returning to Juve brought very nice sensations, which I had kept in my heart. It's hard to explain... I've left a little bit of my heart here,” concluded Carlos Tevez, who left a very pleasant memory at Juventus.
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