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00:00 In Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States, where he was born, Polisic has always breathed football.
00:06 Christian grew up in a house strongly influenced by football.
00:10 Football, between those walls, was absolutely normal for his mother Kelly, for his father Mark, and also for him, since he was a child.
00:17 His life and his inclinations have brought him to this sport in a total "descanso", his natural outlet.
00:24 Family of football fans and sportsmen, Polisic was nicknamed "LeBron James of football" in his homeland.
00:30 But his world varies from the silent and focused climate that reigns around the chess games, in which he loves to immerse himself,
00:38 to the spanish football arenas, in the years of great tensions between Madrid fans and Catalan fans for Luis Figo, a player who was among his idols of youth.
00:48 Christian Polisic is a true American boy, but one of those of today, one of those who with soccer did not feel the lack of alternatives,
00:56 but one of those who plays football, football, not soccer, because he always wanted it and always dreamed of it.
01:02 He is a citizen of the world who knows well to be American, Christian Polisic.
01:06 At the end of his career he could live anywhere, in London where he played with Chelsea, in Milan where he moved with Milan, but also in one of the great metropolises of the USA.
01:15 A harmonious boy with respect to the news, attentive to the evolved and innovative, which carries on the field the same dutility that he has in life.
01:23 A feature that another Milanese citizen of the world like Marco Simone, immediately recognized in him.
01:30 Christian Polisic is certainly a player of great dutility in the whole line of the three quarters,
01:38 so he can miss from the left, behind the points, as well as on the right, as a player who likes to find spaces between the lines,
01:51 so for this he adapts very well in the offensive phase, as a three-quarter player, as a second point.
01:58 Certainly his technical skills are evident, because both on the left and right, he is able to serve in any situation on the teammates.
02:11 He is very skilled, naturally, to move between the lines, and this is a great advantage for all offensive players who can receive his assists.
02:22 There is one fundamental thing that in my opinion can be the positive key for Polisic,
02:29 the fact that he has not played much in the last season at Chelsea,
02:34 can certainly give him an important energy to give everything that Milan needs.
02:42 I think he is a player who will become, even if he is already at this moment, a very important pawn for the whole offensive evolution of Milan this year.
02:58 The energy that Marco Simone is talking about is that of Christian Polisic.
03:04 An energy that is not invasive, but sharp, one of those slopes, of those inertia, that arrive in a moment at the destination, at the target.
03:12 In Milan-Torino he should have been on the right, but on the ball put in the middle by Ruben Loftus-Chic,
03:18 and not immediately deflected by the Reds, there was that moment of inexpression.
03:23 They also noticed the suspension points on the sides.
03:27 And now what happens?
03:29 Everything is spoiled and crumbled by Polisic's sharp insertion into the penalty area.
03:34 Goal and hugs.
03:36 So Christian knows how to stay on the ropes, speed, dribbling,
03:39 but as a striker he is convinced that he knows how to move at the right time and with the right time.
03:43 His game has been compared in the past to that of the South American,
03:46 of the former Argentine national Pablo Aymar,
03:49 who played as a central attacker, as a creative midfielder for River Plate and Valencia.
03:54 But the more time passes and the more Polisic's talent gives way to the wider spaces, to the narrower ones.
04:00 If the captain of the South American recognizes the space,
04:03 his first touch is the decisive one and he leaves.
04:06 As in Bologna, from a medium distance, as from a few steps with Torino.
04:09 Goals that have awakened the enthusiasm of the star and striker people towards their captain,
04:13 as Marco Messina tells the voice of Italian football at CBS.
04:18 I didn't know how strong and famous Polisic was, even here in America.
04:24 Because when I go around with the Americans,
04:27 those who are fans of Real Madrid, Barcelona, but are Americans,
04:32 they say, "I have to see Milan. Where can I buy a Milan shirt?
04:36 Where can I see the game? Because Polisic is now in Serie A."
04:41 And this is the affection outside the field that Polisic has.
04:47 And he is incredible on the pitch.
04:49 At Dortmund, Christian Polisic was a prodigious boy.
04:52 Handsome, agile, lucky, able to play football.
04:56 The ideal boy, the footballer of the future.
04:58 The precursor of Bellingham in the same team in which, with other characteristics,
05:03 a certain Haaland made his way.
05:05 Polisic could become, in key 2.0, a sort of Thomas Rosicki.
05:11 A former talent from Prague, loved by Dortmund's yellow-black wall,
05:17 the yellow-black wall of Westphalia.
05:19 More of a Polisic than a Rosicki.
05:21 Less creative, but equally unpredictable.
05:24 And here is the emotional and economic burn of the Premier League.
05:27 Emotional, because he went from Dortmund to play in England,
05:31 where in 2005 Christian and the whole family had followed Mamma Kelly,
05:36 who had been offered a scholarship to work abroad in a exchange program
05:41 of teaching in England for a year.
05:44 From Tley, the village where they lived in North Oxford,
05:48 it took an hour and a half to reach the Chelsea stadium,
05:51 Stamford Bridge.
05:53 An hour and a half, 90 minutes.
05:54 The same duration as a football match.
05:56 One of those, which for an impressive rain of millions,
05:59 Polisic could afford to play with the Blues shirt.
06:02 All well at first for Christian, between Cobham and the London district,
06:06 which is part of Kensington district.
06:09 Then, however, alternate events, some misfortune,
06:12 always many appearances, but not always as a protagonist,
06:15 as many predicted.
06:16 That's why in his first celebrations in Milan, in his homeland,
06:20 at CBS Sports Golasso, they read, as confirmed by Marco Messina's voice,
06:25 a sort of outburst, a recharge, a desire to bounce back.
06:29 It's like, "Come on, come on, come on!"
06:32 I think he has this thing, because maybe you don't know in Italy
06:38 how much pressure there is on this guy.
06:41 For the Americans, he's the golden boy.
06:44 He's the out-of-class one in America,
06:47 which has been for years, or perhaps forever,
06:50 that we don't have a player like that.
06:52 Then everything that happened at Chelsea happened,
06:55 where I didn't play much,
06:57 but there was this pressure on him,
07:00 because even at the national team, he didn't always do very well.
07:04 He wasn't always the man.
07:07 I think all of this was part of that outburst of Pulisic,
07:13 because there was so much pressure,
07:15 there were so many people who said,
07:18 "He's always unlucky, he can't play."
07:21 All of these things, so I think it was all of this
07:24 that was inside the "Come on, baby."
07:27 And we're in Milan, with Pulisic's smile,
07:30 inside the Red-Black group.
07:32 In Milan, he found Fik Tomori, Olivier Giroud,
07:36 and he almost arrived in the arms of Ruben Lottus-Chic.
07:39 All the guys he'd already shared conversations with,
07:43 speeches, comparisons, reasoning with,
07:45 because he loves to confront himself in a polite and sensitive way,
07:48 mature, adult, as he did with his former team-mate
07:51 Romelu Lukaku at the Olimpico, after the match between Rome and Milan.
07:54 Opponents during the game, ok,
07:56 but now the referee has whistled three times.
07:58 "Rome, how are you?" "Hey, Christian."
08:00 Away from the clamour and the headlines,
08:02 as happened in the silence of the green Cobham countryside,
08:05 when they confided and exchanged their respective
08:08 technical and human moments, aside from the Chelsea games.
08:12 Lukaku and Pulisic isolated themselves after Rome-Milan
08:15 for a few minutes, all of them,
08:17 and they rekindled their relationship outside the match and the lagoon,
08:20 as it happened with many of his team-mates in Milan,
08:23 to find, among the paths of Milanello,
08:25 the bright and vivid eyes of Pulisic,
08:27 to confront each other during a retreat,
08:29 during a week, or in the immediate wake of a great match.
08:33 Pulisic is there, with and without the ball between his feet.
08:36 He's a striker for football, Christian,
08:38 but Captain America also knows how to be a reference point
08:41 for those who are close to him.
08:43 And it all started in his United States of America,
08:45 where he plays football for you today.
08:47 He's not part of a small group,
08:49 perhaps looked at with suspicion by everyone else,
08:52 but inside, a mass of fans,
08:54 increasingly large and increasingly competitive.
08:57 Pulisic's football is the sign of the times,
08:59 as confirmed by CBS microphones,
09:01 the talent, Marco Messina.
09:03 When I grew up, there were two types of people
09:07 who played football.
09:09 Either you are the son or daughter of an immigrant, like me,
09:14 or you are a strange person,
09:17 a strange boy or girl who plays football,
09:20 who plays football, because everyone here
09:22 plays only baseball, American football, basketball.
09:26 This is how I grew up, 20 years ago.
09:29 But now I always see, always,
09:32 it has become cool to play football now in America,
09:36 which is a very strange thing for me,
09:39 when I talk to the kids in the park,
09:41 and they say, "No, I want to play football.
09:44 I want to play like Messi, like Ronaldo,
09:47 like all these phenomena,
09:49 which is something that in the last 20 years
09:52 is something that didn't exist.
09:54 non c'era.
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