Manolo Gabbiadini
Who is Manolo Gabbiadini?
“Position: centre striker; other roles: right wing or second striker”. This is what it writes about Manolo Gabbiadini, a well-known specialist website. Who is right? The various coaches who have trained him the last years, or this site? Manolo played with them very often as right wing, sometimes as second striker, rarely as centre striker. But where does the footballer prefer playing?
He is convinced to be a central striker, even though he does not move in this particular way. His major ability is to start from the right and to come in the center, so that he can kick with his left foot, almost magic. We remember him in Sampdoria with Mihajlovic and in the old Napoli of Benitez, when two hands were not enough to count all its goals. That is its natural movement. Yet, we saw against Chievo Gabbiadini who played as attacker, we have noticed his new mentality by striker. In spite of the goal scored (I wonder, what was he doing there an attacker?), we saw him running sure toward the nearest goal post more then one time. In the first half he managed to hit the ball, which Sorrentino has been able to touch. He done the same thing even the second half in order to exploit a Ghoulam‘s launch.
That is what a centre striker usually does, as he used to do “an Argentinian” that we do not name. Particular features are in the DNA of each player, but the way of playing on the pitch, it can change thanks to the training and to the teaching. And Gabbiadini is training and he is learning. He feels as a striker and maybe it will become it.