Alvarito
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00:00Alvaro Morata is a champion who, since he was a child, and then as a boy, until he went up and up in the category,
00:07he has always challenged himself and his destinies, of a city of football among the largest and most prestigious in the world, Madrid.
00:14Morata started his career as a junior at Atletico Madrid.
00:18Then he played for the youth teams of Getafe and Real Madrid, where he started his career as a professional.
00:25Being born in the Spanish capital has many advantages for every child who loves football, both as a promise and as a fan.
00:32Being a passionate fan of both teams, Alvarito, as he was known since he was a child,
00:39he was lucky enough to live nearby the stadiums Santiago Bernabéu and Vicente Calderón, breathing the climate, dreaming of business.
00:48Instead, the Caliente Arena of the Metropolitano would have traced him for the first time as a protagonist,
00:53starting in the summer of 2019, at the beautiful age of a career in bloom, at 27 years old.
00:59The life of Morata is thrilling, since he started his sporting career at the Real Madrid Foundation Academy, when he was only 3 years old.
01:07He was lucky enough to get in touch with legends of the caliber of Raúl, Roberto Carlos, Fernando Morientes.
01:16And all this since he was very young.
01:18This is why his emotion, shown from the smallest details, took effect when he made his entrance in the red-black reality of Milan.
01:26One from Bernabéu, one from Metropolitano, one as a captain of the Spanish national team at the time of lifting the European Cup to the sky of Berlin.
01:36One like this, who shows himself delicate, sensitive, full of social respect, towards a teammate who left him the number 7 jersey, ready for use in Milan.
01:48He could have considered it a due act, or a formality, or something that could stay there without the need for too many words, but no.
01:57First of all, I would like to thank Aldi, because he was an incredible person.
02:02It was a gesture that I would not have expected, honestly.
02:06It is because my favorite number is the number that I have never had the opportunity to wear in the club, for various reasons.
02:14But he gave me a great pleasure and made me the happiest person this summer, certainly.
02:22Once, when he was younger, Morata's parents took him momentarily out of the football fields to force him to concentrate on his homework and school.
02:31According to them, education was an absolute priority and therefore, without any guarantee of knowing how it would end,
02:38with the complex and ambitious dream of a career as a professional footballer,
02:42Morata needed, meanwhile, that Alvarito was guaranteed a stable and certain perspective of life, a future built on studies and learning, on personal growth.
02:52His parents thought that studying medicine and surgery would have been more suitable for him, rather than focus everything on playing football.
03:00The thought of a family with their feet on the ground, a respectful family of all the stages that life proposes, day by day, year by year.
03:08Thoughts without frivolity, thoughts of values, which explain why, in the business football of the second millennium, made of earnings and social,
03:17Alvaro Morata gave so much of himself to the team of his own nation, of his own people, of his own territory,
03:24to that Spanish national that does not represent an endless contract, but a bond with his own people, with his own history and therefore with his own family.
03:34The European of life, that of Berlin in the final with England, the European of a life for Alvarito.
03:40It was an incredible emotion, the end of a journey that begins when we are 12, 13 years old and for the first time you see the national sports city,
03:51you imagine a day of being in a photo with a cup, but also lifting it, being in the center of the photo,
03:58that photo will remain forever, it was like a fairy tale to this European.
04:03Alvaro Morata has arrived in Milan almost from one moment to the next. On July 4, in the heart of the summer of 2024, the first voices.
04:11Ten days later, at the final of the European of Berlin, in the tribune d'honor, there were already the leaders of Milan.
04:17Already practically in the clothes of his fans and around the 19th of July.
04:22It was the official announcement of the acquisition of the captain of Spain and one of the symbols of Atletico Madrid by Club Rosso Nero.
04:30A definitive arrival with a contract until 2028 and with an option also for the season 2028-2029.
04:37It was an outcry to Alvarito for Milan. After many speeches and after many rumored hypotheses of the football market,
04:44a point was clear at all the peaks of Casa Milan. Not only the goals of Olivier Giroud had to be replaced, but also his charisma, his example, his leadership.
04:54And then here is Morata's sensitivity, Morata's stimuli. A player who is not content, who wants to continue to improve.
05:02Moral and human gifts that could not escape an attentive sportsman like Zlatan Ibrahimović,
05:09who on August 9, 2024, presented him with very important words on the third floor of Casa Milan.
05:16I am sure that Alvaro will enter this group easily, because the whole team was in America.
05:24I know that everyone is waiting for him, because they know who he is and are waiting to train with him.
05:32I don't say that I am here and I know him 100%. We have seen each other a few times, but now I know him a little more.
05:45He must be himself and it is not that he will have difficulty. He has already played in Italy, if we speak for the player, he did well.
05:57He is not a player who has to grow or has room to grow even more, because he only has to be well and perform.
06:06Others we have brought have room to grow even more, while Alvaro is already at the top.
06:12In the season 2023-2024, the great Real Madrid, champion of Spain and champion of Europe, lost only two games in a whole season.
06:21Almost an invincible battle. An adverb signed by Morata.
06:27Because the only two defeats of a long, intense and winning season, Real Madrid took them both, both and two, against Atletico Madrid.
06:35And in both occasions, both in the league and in the Copa del Rey, with a goal scored by Alvarito.
06:42The proof that he is a champion who does not stop at appearances, but who has always been constantly hunting for substance.
06:50It is the only thing Morata knows. The only thing he knows is victory.
06:54Trophies, but also important, crucial, heavy matches. Those that are his specialty.
07:01Goals come later. Goals are important, but they are not the foundation of everything.
07:06To score 50 or 60 goals, I don't care about anything.
07:09Because I've seen, and you know, there are players who score millions of goals, but then they don't win anything.
07:17In the end, you have to win, you have to enjoy the journey and above all understand that we are in a team game,
07:25that there are so many great players in this team, that they will give us the opportunity to score so many goals.
07:32I'm here because I want to help this company make more history than it already has.
07:38And above all, because I know that these are the last years of my career, but the best, because I have reached maturity.
07:45From one derby to another, from that of Madrid to that of Milan.
07:48For one like Morata, who has already left his beautiful traces in the derby of the Mole di Torino with the Juventus shirt.
07:54And also beautiful deep ones.
07:56Derbies, hot-blooded challenges, unmeasured matches, events in which the result counts a thousand and a thousand times more than the comments.
08:04As always happens in Italian football.
08:07A dimension well known to Alvarito since the summer of 2014, when he landed in Turin, via Real Madrid.
08:14A theme that the Spanish and European champion, with the number 7 shirt of Milan, speaks about with pleasure.
08:20A continuously growing Italian league, as Morata has been able to note.
08:24With a quick pass on the goal scored against his new rivals, Inter.
08:29With the shirt of Atletico Madrid, in the round of 16 of the Champions League, 2023-2024.
08:35A championship that has grown a lot, a championship that is more beautiful to watch every year.
08:40I remember ten years ago, when I watched the Italian championship, it was very different, much more tactical.
08:47There were fewer goals.
08:49Now every team is well prepared, well trained.
08:53It was a great satisfaction last year, the truth.