A hurricane hit Luciano Spalletti’s Italy and overwhelmed the Azzurri’s right defensive lane. The talent of Nico Williams he revealed himself perhaps definitively in the match two days ago and Spain is pampering the boy from the Athletic Club of Bilbao: “Explosive, strong physically and technically, Nico Williams is the face of Spanish football. A football that is not just suffocating possession ball, but also sudden verticalizations and numerical superiority on the flanks to penetrate the opposing defenses like a knife through butter”, he writes Tuttosport.
The newspaper traces the profile of the outsider starting from his story: “Nico, like his brother Iñaki, who was eight years older and literally raised him when their parents were busy working to give them a better life: they decided to migrate, facing a dramatic journey and crossing much of the Sahara barefoot, with Maria pregnant with Iñaki. Once in Morocco, they were arrested and risked being deported, but a lawyer took their defense and thus obtained the asylum permit declaring that they were being sent. from Liberia”.
The Williams family remained in Spain, choosing to live in Pamplona (Navarre), where Nico was born, while Bilbao was the birthplace of Iñaki. The football careers of the two brothers are similar: Baskonia and Athletic Bilbao, after the youth in the red and whites; Iñaki started with Natacion Pamplona, Nico with Osasuna. Since 2021 they have both played in the first team and this year they won the Copa del Rey together, the 24th for the Basque club. In the national team, however, they wanted to follow in the footsteps of the Boateng brothers. In fact, at the Qatar World Cup, Iñaki went with Ghana, Nico instead with the Red Furies. Anyone wishing to purchase him already knows the price, set by the clause: 58 million. Accessible, a safe investment for a player with crystal-clear talent.