Rome (AP) – David Beckham and Cristiano Ronaldo They came to Serie A in the year 2018 of their careers.
This year, the list of famous veterans that are falling into Italy has been longer than usual. Included Luka Modric (People who joined AC Milan at the age of 39); Kevin de Bruin (Napolitan, 34); nemanja mat (Sassuolo, 37); Raul Albiol (Pisa, 40); Edin Zeko (Fiorentina, 39).
And when 38-year-old Jamie Birdie The Italian league stereotypes are known for older players, signing with Cremonese, which was promoted on the deadline this week. Posing next to the Stradivari violin It was created in the city of his new club centuries ago.
“From dreams to reality: Stradivardy is here!” Cremonese said on Instagram that she is quickly coating Vardy’s new nickname.
Vardy doesn’t have Beckham’s star power (he was 33 when he was first loaned to AC Milan in 2009) or Ronaldo (he was 33 when he joined Juventus in 2018), but he’s still the biggest thing that’s happened to Cremonese in recent memory. Thousands of fans greeted the British as they arrived on Monday. There is one supporter who already had a tattoo of Vardy’s image on his legs.
Cremonase’s perfect start
Cremona’s enthusiasm, less than an hour’s drive from Milan, coincided with an incredibly strong start for Cremonese.
After winning the Serie B playoffs, return to top flight two years later Cremonese surprised Milan In that serie, the opener was then kept perfect A dramatic late victory over Sassuolo In the second round.
Simply avoiding demobilization would be a misuse of Cremonese. Therefore, the clubs are achieving excessively at this rate.
And Vardy is no stranger to reaching the excess as he led Leicester to an unlikely Premier League title in 2016. He scored Record 11 straight game Leicester’s historic campaign is remembered as one of the great underdog stories in football history. The title ignored the preseason odds of 5,000-1.
The current odds for Cremonese to score the Serie A range from 1,000-1 to 2,500-1 for the record.
Season candidate goals
As the first two rounds showed, there are more in Cremonese than in Vardy.
Newly hired coach David Nicola is an expert in helping his team avoid demobilization and has a lot of experience with local clubs on top flights. In 2017, he effectively cycled the cycle to his home in Italy to maintain his promise after maintaining the crotone in Serie A.
Forward Federico Bonazzoli, who began his career at Inter Milan, scored early. Candidate season goals To determine the match against Milan – connected with an acrobatic overhead kick, silenced Sanshiro.
Mussolini’s great grandson
Romano Floriani Mussolini, great grandson of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, also set goals resolved by VAR in his Serie A debut before winning a foul that led to a decisive penalty kick against Sassolo.
Floriani Mussolini, 22, who was loaned to Cremonese by Lazio, said he added that upon arrival in July that “my last name bothers others more than me.”
However, Mussolini’s name does not appear on his Cremonese shirt. Instead, his name, “Romano,” is printed on top of No. 22.
Holdover from Serie B
Club captain defender Matteo Biancetti has been with Cremonese since 2019 and was the starter for six seasons in the second division after appearing through the Inter Youth System.
Tough centre back Federico Bas Kirotto, who won the opener against Milan after first signing with the club’s youth team in 2014, returned to Cremonese for this season.
Then there’s 36-year-old midfielder Franco Vazquez, who played for Italy and Argentina. He led Cremonese with nine goals last season, scoring against Sassoro.
Another holdover for the second division winner, forward Manuel Delca, changed the winning penalty to a stop time against Sassoro.
Vardy can make a debut with Verona
Next up after Cremonese is a match against two more regional rivals: Hellas Verona and Parma. There will then be a visit to Como for massive spending and another trip to Sanshiro to play against Inter in early October. Before he turns 39 in January, there are plenty of opportunities for Vardy to make an impact.
“We need to keep working hard,” Nicola said. “Not being seized by the current sense of happiness.”
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