The happy note, perhaps the only one, but definitely positive. Fiorentina has discovered Amir Richardsonexcellent in his debut against Venezia, in a match where the Viola played badly and were also contested by the Artemio Franchi fans after the final 0-0. Moroccan midfielder, he landed in Florence for around 10 million euros: born in 2002, bronze with Morocco at the last Olympics, he is the son of an artist (his father ‘Sugar Ray’ is a historic NBA basketball player and also in Italy).
Who is Amir Richardson?
The twenty-two year old Moroccan is a central midfielder with a very tall stature: a good one hundred and ninety-seven centimeters, he is slim (estimates speak of about eighty kilograms). A cuirassier, with a basketball player’s physique, a modern player who can still structure himself and can be modeled and shaped by Raffaele Palladino’s staff to become different types of footballers. Very long levers, he is a box to box player who has few equals in our football. Great skill and vision of the game with the ball at his feet, he is tactically and technically skilled. Very elegant, he knows how to propose and intercept the opponent’s actions. In the two he is a perfect screen, a player who seems designed for Raffaele Palladino’s scheme.
Who with him?
The knot tied to the future of Sofyan Amrabat will have to be definitively untied in Florence. Then there is Rolando Mandragora but a fourth player is still missing in the department if we consider the young Alessandro Bianco who is leaving and the others who have only adapted to the position. A very short department for the Viola who, however, immediately discovered a new protagonist in the Moroccan Amir Richardson.