[Sport] Weston McKinney ... a new fighter in Juventus, to surprise everyone

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Juventus club announced its contract with the young American Weston McKinney on loan, with a clause to buy the player at the end of the next season from his German club Schalke at 18 million euros, to be the first deal that the administration offers to its new coach Andrea Pirlo, considering that the contract with Brazilian Arthur Melo came during the coach's era Ex-mauricio sari.

McKinney became the first American player to wear a Juventus shirt and the third player in the history of the United States to wear the shirt of one of the major European teams, as their stars only played in second-row clubs, only to be preceded by veteran goalkeeper Tim Howard for the Manchester United shirt and his current friend in the national team Christan Polsic for the Chelsea shirt.

Fans of the Italian club were amazed at the arrival of the 22-year-old American to the team at a time when expectations and ambitions were higher, at a time when the team needed a process of replacement and renewal in the midfield with a desire to get rid of high-age people such as Sami Khedira and Blazy Matiodi and with him the unhelpful in his first season with Club Aaron Ramsey.

But the ambitions rose a little with the fans' knowledge of the American player, who seems to have been working in the shadows with his team Schalke in the German League, especially this season in which he was the star of the club, despite the disastrous end of the season and not achieving any victory in the last nine matches in the league.

As for McKinney, he was the most prominent star who drew attention throughout the season, with the presence of the American coach David Wagner, who decided to rely entirely on his American citizen in all the midfield positions that the player is good at, with attempts to develop him in all aspects on the field.

If you open the player's page on many sites, you will find his birthplace is Little Elm, Texas, but he was in fact born in the capital, Washington, where his father, an officer in the US Army, was there due to his work conditions before moving to Texas a few months later.

The player's family moved to Germany at the age of six, where he lived there for three years in Kaiserslautern, before returning to the United States of America again, to begin his football career at the local Phoenix club youth club before joining the Dallas youth club, active in the Major League Soccer.

In 2016, the player had a choice either to continue his education with an athletic excellence grant at the University of Virginia or to continue in professional football to choose the latter, and a few months later the player decides to refuse to sign a professional contract with the American club Dallas to travel with American birds migrating to German lands to achieve their football dreams.

The departure of McKinney from Dallas in this way to Germany was one of the main reasons that prompted the American club's management to form a reserve team affiliated with them to participate in the American First Division to give the club's youth the opportunity to appear and play in the club's jersey to keep them for the longest possible period and not to lose talent early and for free abroad.

McKinney waited a year in order to get a first-team call-up as he participated for a few minutes in front of Inglushtad in the last round of the 2016/2017 season before continuing with the team in the following season, as coach Dominic Tedesco decided to rely on him as one of the important names in the coach's lineup, which the coach continued to do Next is Hope Stephens and finally David Wagner.

Over the course of those three seasons, McKinney participated in 91 matches, scoring 5 goals, in addition to making 7 other goals for his teammates, in addition to his participation in seven different positions on the field, most notably his main position as a "Box to Box" midfielder, a defensive midfielder, a playmaker, a defense center, and even participated. As a striker in two games previously.

"Weston is a very fast and strong player and always gives everything he has to the team on the pitch. He can play in all midfield positions, whether in front of the defenders or behind the attackers or on the sides. He can also play as a central defense, whether with four or three defenders in the back line."

This is an important feature that may have facilitated the decision to contract Juventus with him. The old lady searches for every transfer market for players who are able to play in more than one place in order to give the team's list the technical and tactical flexibility needed for its coaches.

But McKinney does not seem happy with this. The player, in previous statements quoted by The Athletic newspaper, said, "I may be able to play well in more than one position, but I want to be distinguished in only one. I want to play because I am the best in this place."

McKinney told ESPN in previous statements how to make the most of its potential, saying, "I don't want to be told to just attack or defend. I just want to be free to move around the field and come back to get the ball and advance with it."

"I am not the player who scores or scores a lot, but I feel that I can connect my team-mates to each other everywhere on the field and not just in defense or only offense."

"My weakness is to stick to one place on the field. I want to move everywhere, but smartly, of course, I do not need to run 80 yards if I can move the ball by running for 20 or 40 yards only."