Juventus: Mario Mandzukic traumatized Moise Kean

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By: Manu Tournoux

His dance moves and his goals had marked PSG supporters during the 2020-2021 season. Author of 17 goals in 41 matches in the Ile-de-France colors, the Italian striker was finally loaned to Juventus Turin, his training club, immediately. In Piedmont, the native of Vercelli alternates between hot and cold and struggles to establish himself as a starter in the eyes of Massimiliano Allegri. Former great hope of the Bianconeri club with whom he started at 16 by replacing Mario Mandzukic against Pescara on November 20, 2016, Kean has never really been able to meet the great expectations placed on him at the moment.

Present on the occasion of a podcast entitled 19Fthe striker, aged only 23, returned to his very special relationship with the Croatian striker: “A person I met who left an impression on me? If I talk about the world of sport, I can say Mandzukic, who played with me. He has more or less the same character as Ibrahimovic. He’s someone who doesn’t talk much. If he sees Zlatan, maybe he talks to him, but he didn’t talk to me. If he spoke to me, it was precisely to insult me. I went to train once, I was 15, with the first team. I was next to him and he said to me: “What are you doing here? I’m trying to become like you.” And he said to me: “But don’t think about it. You’re auditioning and you’ll come back tomorrow.»