Moise Keanstriker of Florentinehe recalled in the interview given to New York Times some stages of his career, including the most important of all, the one at Juventus: “You get to my age, I’m 24, and there are moments when I talk to my teammates and say: ‘I’ve already done everything’. Not necessarily in football, but in life compared to other guys in their 25s. Juventus taught me a lot of discipline. They took me from nothing and they taught me a lot a family for me. They threw me into the first team at 16 and it was a dream.”
It didn’t go as expected at Everton.
“Of all the experiences I’ve had, you’ll never hear me say I’ve had a bad one. I find positives in all of them. If I hadn’t spent that year at Everton, I wouldn’t have learned the things I learned there. I am I was a bit unlucky. I went there thinking of playing a bit more, I was 19 years old and I thought I would make sparks. Unfortunately, it didn’t go that way. We changed three coaches that year and mentally… It was all new to me. I was in England, it was a new environment.”
The experience at PSG, however, was also positive on a numerical level, the best of his career so far.
“You can only learn by being around champions like Mbappe and Neymar. Even if you don’t want to learn, just by watching them, you learn. Even if you think, ‘There’s nothing I can take from them’. You look at them and you see things that they’re not normal and you think to yourself: ‘I want to try to do it’. I was really lucky to play with them and they taught me a lot, especially Mbappé and Ney were just them. Marquinhos and Presnel Kimpembe. They knew it hadn’t gone well for me at Everton and they helped me. I swear they were great, heartfelt people. I felt the love around me and I did well for it. 80 percent of what they did every day made me want to do well. When you have people around you who care about you and believe in you, it means a lot.”
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