Champions of Italy: Emanuele Giaccherini
Emanuele Giaccherini is so good! And Conte immediately understood this lad’s skills when he first said: “If his name was Giaccherinho, perhaps he’d be more popular.”
Instead, Emanuele’s origins aren’t exotic and the midfielder from Talla came up through the ranks thereby reaching the top-class football, but now he’s a permanent, fundamental element.
Giaccherini had a very strong impact on Juve, bringing freshness and the ability of dribbling his opponents to put wonderful assists. These qualities are proved by his 27 useful dribbles and 17 targeted crosses, thus being the fourth Bianconero on both lists.
Moreover, two decisive assists and a wonderful goal against Atalanta embellished his amazing season. Emanuele was able to find his space especially thanks to his tactical versatility: external striker or midfielder in a 4-4-3 system, outside in the 3-5-2, he has always shown great performances in every position assigned by manager Conte. He kept it over 23 games, 1290 minutes on the pitch in his first year at Juve: simply a great record!
