the Rosario Angel Di Mariaone of the figures of the Argentine National Team, was officially presented this Monday at the Juventus, his new club after being released from Paris Saint-Germain after seven years in France.
“My head is now at Juve, the national team will come later. I am here to win as many titles as possible, the National Team will have its importance when the time comes”, declared the 34-year-old left-hander after being consulted about the upcoming World Cup.
Juventus will be the sixth club in the career of “Fideo”a specialist in wearing the jerseys of European giants: after a short stay at Rosario Central and his sale to Benfica in Portugal, Di María went through Real Madrid, Manchester United, PSG and now the Vecchia Signora.
The striker admitted that after leaving Paris his “idea was to return to Argentina”, but he could not reject Juventus’ proposal: “When the best Italian team contacts you, you cannot say no. They waited for me when the French championship ended, when I was involved in the National Team and then it took me a while to respond only for family reasons, I wanted to stay for a while on vacation and then dedicate myself to this new adventure. Just before the holidays ended, I communicated my choice.”
“Here comes the same Di María as always, who wants to win at all costs, hates losing and wants to be champion: I think Juventus chose me for this. The most important thing will be to work hard and I will try to do my best,” the Argentine closed at a press conference.
Di María is one of the three Juve reinforcements, who also presented the Frenchman Paul Pogba -free from Manchester United- and the Italian attacker Federico Chiesabought from Fiorentina for 40 million euros.
The Turin club too He let two historical players like Paulo Dybala and Giorgio Chiellini leave, in a renewal process after a couple of weak seasons in which he saw how Inter and Milan were crowned in Serie A and where they did not go beyond the round of 16 in the Champions League.