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Date: 02/07/2017 -

Zoff: "Donnarumma isn't calm anymore, he should only focus on playing and growing"

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Dino Zoff gives advice to Donnarumma. In the 82' World Cup champion's opinion, Gigio has been conditioned by the questions regarding his future during the Euro: "This boy isn't calm anymore, you can see that clearly"- he's told to Corriere della Sera- "I think that he's in trouble with all these questions, look at what he's done in the Euro. I expected it though: after this kind of problem I wouldn't have handled it well at 40, so picture it for him that is.. How old is he? 18. At that age he should only think about playing, growing. I said that Allegri also said that the other day, he's right, youngsters must spend most of their time on the field to learn from their mistakes. Because, as everybody, so does he. I will also do other mistakes, especially if that story doesn't go away".

About the Euro: "He didn't take a lot of goals. He's a great player, very great, I've said a few times that he's got a bright future ahead of him but everything depends on him. He didn't do good at Euro as his mind was somewhere else, I don't think you have to be a goalkeeper to understand that. Growing as a man, a player and a professional must be done together. He must stay at Milan, where he's grown; it's the right solution, the only thing that could make him go back on track. Everyone's got their future in their hands, he does even more".

Juventus the right fit: "Gigi is right, it's true that I would see that well. As in every big team. But further in the future, not now. He must understand that he's got his whole life ahead to play for Real Madrid, Barcelona, Juventus, wherever he wants. He's got the means, the character and especially the age. It's exactly what the knot of the problem, he must understand that only being 18 is his chance. Being 18 you don't have to hurry for nothing. At 25 or 30, you may have to make forced choices, with some kind of interest we'll say, because you haven't your career ahead of you anymore. But he's only a boy, he shouldn't think about money. At 18 we were more mature, these of the generation before mine went to Russia, without jokes. Donnarumma must be patient".

Zoff makes a wish in the end of the interview: "In football be the one you show to be every day, not the autographs you sign or the money you make, the value that your agents give. Milan? They may have moved differently, maybe earlier, but with the change of property I guess everything was blocked. But this might be the right way now, we'll see".

Tags: Juventus



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