Piotr Zielinski he is not just a midfielder, he is something more. Not exactly an added striker, but we’re close. His footballing history starts from Lubin in Poland, but at just 17 years old he is already wearing the shirt ofUdinese. With the Friulians he only spent one year in the Primavera, then his qualities were too evident and he was promoted to the first team. In two seasons he tasted Serie A, showed signs of something, made 19 appearances, but still didn’t blossom and only managed to provide 2 assists in 19 appearances.
It is not little, at all, but for what he will demonstrate later and for what he is today we could imagine even better. From 2014 to 2016 he played on loan atEmpoli with Maurizio Sarri and Marco Giampaolo, two who try to teach football. There are 66 tokens in Tuscany with 5 goals, numbers in hand, another step.
In the summer of 2016 it was purchased by Naples for 15 million euros plus Zuniga’s loan, then transferred to Watford. In Campania he will win an Italian Cup and a historic scudetto, and currently boasts 364 appearances (41 in the Champions League, 21 in the Europa League, 2 in the Champions League preliminaries, 281 in Serie A, 2 in the Italian Super Cup and 17 in the Italian Cup) and 51 goals , to which we must add the 11 centers in 88 matches against Poland. Summing up what Zielinski represented for Aurelio De Laurentiis’s company is complicated, but it is certain that in all these years he has always been at the center of the project, the man capable of guaranteeing numerical superiority by overtaking the man and entering with the headlights off in passages that others can only imagine. At a certain point something breaks, he wants another experience and finds an agreement to move toInter, which in the meantime has dominated the championship and awaits him with open arms. He will not leave in the best possible way because the final job is not what he is used to, but he certainly says goodbye as a champion, as a leader and as a symbol of a cycle that reached his lowest point in 2023-2024. Piotr Zielinski turns 30 today.