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Report: Dybala leaves Argentina

 

 

 

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Mar 21, 2017

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It’s reported Paulo Dybala will be sent back to the Juventus camp for treatment after tests with the Argentina medical staff.

 

The forward travelled to South America on international duty despite limping off with a muscular problem during the 1-0 win over Sampdoria on Sunday.

 

According to Sky Sport Italia this evening, the Argentina staff ascertained he won’t be able to play either of their two games coming up.

 

Dybala will therefore be sent straight back to Turin for treatment and hopes to be fit in time for the Serie A showdown with Napoli on April 2.

 

Argentina are due to play Chile on Friday and travel to Bolivia on Tuesday evening in their 2018 World Cup qualifiers.

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Argentina keep hold of Dybala

 

 

 

http://www.football-italia.net/100021/argentina-keep-hold-dybala

 

 

Mar 21, 2017

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Paulo Dybala’s hamstring injury is shown to not be serious, so the Juventus striker should stay with Argentina for their World Cup qualifiers.

 

It was reported earlier today that the left thigh problem was bad enough to send him straight back to Turin for treatment.

 

However, it seems the Argentina medical staff are confident they can at least get La Joya on the bench against Chile on Friday and Bolivia next Tuesday.

 

The Seleccion released a statement tonight confirming they would be following his daily progress.

 

Dybala limped off during the first half of Sunday’s 1-0 Serie A victory over Sampdoria.

 

Tests appear to have shown a slight issue in the left thigh, but no lesions.

 

Juventus were hoping to get Dybala back to base for rest and treatment, especially with huge games coming up against Napoli and Barcelona.

 

Argentina have released Pablo Zabaleta from international duty after finding a Grade I lesion in his left thigh.

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Dybala new contract this month

 

 

http://www.football-italia.net/100031/dybala-new-contract-month

 

 

Mar 22, 2017

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Reports suggest that Juventus are ready to announce the signing of a new contract by star player Paulo Dybala.

 

According to Il Messaggero, the Bianconeri are set to reveal the extension by the end of March.

 

La Joya will reportedly receive a deal worth €7m per season, to tie him to the club until 2021, in a move that will make him one of the very top earners at the club.

 

Such an announcement has been subject to several delays, as the player’s agent had to return to Argentina in order to be present at the birth of his son.

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Paulo Dybala to stay on international duty with Argentina — for now

 

 

Dybala didn’t train with the rest of the squad on Tuesday, but the

national team announced his injury isn’t serious. Okay...

 

http://www.blackwhitereadallover.com/2017/3/22/15019852/paulo-dybala-

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Mar 22, 2017

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The second we saw Paulo Dybala hit the turf at the Marassi, not immediately get up and instead signal that a substitution was the right plan of action, the same question popped into each one of our heads: “How long is he going to be out for?”

We’ve become conditioned to think that way whenever a Juventus player gets injured over the last few years. And when you throw in what Juve’s schedule is like coming out of the international break — two games in four days against Napoli, the Champions League quarterfinal showdown against Barcelona — any potential timetable when it comes to recovery time is that much more important.

After Tuesday, we still don’t really know.

Dybala, as expected, has gone off and honored his inclusion in Argentina’s squad for its upcoming games against Chile and Bolivia in World Cup qualifying. And, as expected, he has undergo medical examinations with Argentina’s doctors. The results were not really anything bad. He’s not out for two months. He doesn’t have a torn hamstring or anything like that. But, as Argentinian football federation announced on its website Tuesday evening, Dybala has basically been deemed as something we’ve heard from the Juventus camp in previous short-term injury cases — he’s been given a “day-to-day” diagnosis where he will be evaluated as the week goes on.

Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?

Reports out of Italy were going back and forth as to what Dybala’s status is even before the actual medical examination was announced by the Argentina camp. Would he stay? Would he go back to Turin? Was he just going to sit on Instagram all day and plug his new website and personal logo? (That last one is meant as a joke. Dybala is a nice young man who obviously has a social media team that is pushing this new branding.)

 

But because it’s day-to-day, we’re left to play the waiting game. I guess if we see Dybala taking the field in an Argentina jersey in the next few days, we could probably assume he’s okay and healthy. But Max Allegri did say that Dybala might not have been 100 percent when he took the field against Sampdoria this past weekend, so who truly knows what Dybala’s health status is at this exact moment.

It sure would be a little more reassuring if he was back in Turin resting and hanging out with his girlfriend rather than being on international duty. The last thing Dybala, Juventus and all of us need to see happen is his injury-related absence be drawn out like the last time he was injured this season. That, yeah, that wasn’t good.

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Paulo Dybala set to miss crucial
Argentina-Chile qualifier with injury

 

 

 

http://www.espnfc.co.uk/argentina/story/3087617/paulo-dybala-

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Mar 22, 2017

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Paulo Dybala is set to miss Argentina's potentially crucial World Cup qualifier against Chile on Thursday, but the injury he suffered while playing for Juventus against Sampdoria last weekend is not thought to be serious.

Dybala was called up for international duty despite the knock, but Argentina's FA has announced that he is training individually and unlikely to be considered for selection.

"Paulo Dybala trained separately from the rest of the team today [Tuesday] and the minor injury to his left thigh has shown improvement," a statement said.

"Based on the evaluation done by our kinesiologist, his progress is to be monitored day-to-day."

Dybala is likely to be only a spectator in Buenos Aires, where a win for Argentina would see them climb above Chile into the final automatic qualifying spot for the 2018 finals.

 

 

Chile currently have 20 points, one more than Argentina, so a win for them would be equally significant -- but their recent history against Argentina does not bode well.

Of their five previous meetings, Argentina have won three while Chile have won two in penalty shootouts.

Dybala has scored eight Serie A goals this season, and the Bianconeri will be hoping the 23-year-old will be available for the first leg of their UEFA Champions League quarterfinal against Barcelona on April 11.

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It’s Done ! Dybala and Juventus reach an agreement on renewal

 

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http://www.juvefc.com/done-dybala-juventus-reach-agreement-renewal/

 

 

Mar 24, 2017

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Juventus have finally agreed a contract renewal with Paulo Dybala which will keep him at the club until 2021.

As mentioned yesterday, Juventus are in the process of renewing a number players’ contracts, however Dybala’s contract talks have rumbled on for months, leading to some speculation that the player may yet leave the club in the summer with Barcelona the likely destination.

Despite the rumours, Dybala insisted that the talks were at an advanced stage and that the renewal was an inevitability, a sentiment echoed by Bianconeri Director Beppe Marotta who stated “Dybala’s entourage is in Argentina right now. They will arrive at the end of the month and that is the moment we’ll sign the contract. There’s no reason to worry.”

Now Gazetta Dello Sport report that a deal has been agreed upon, leading with the headline: “Now is really done: Dybala and Juventus have reached an agreement for the renewal until 2021.

According to the report, a tug-of-war took place between the club and Dybala over image rights management, with Juventus wanting 100% control which was rejected in the first instance. It seems this this has now been resolved with Dybala compromising and agreeing to a joint-operation of sorts with at least some portion of image rights being controlled by the club. 

An agreement in principle has been reached which will extend La Joya’s contract by another year, taking him up to 2021, while earning €7.5 million per season, putting him on par with Gonzalo Higuain as one of the top earners at the club. The official announcement is expected to come in early April, soon after the players return from the international break.

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Mixed messages over Dybala future

 

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http://www.football-italia.net/100118/mixed-messages-over-dybala-future

 

 

Mar 24, 2017

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There have been mixed reports in the Italian and Spanish press regarding the future of Paulo Dybala.

 

Whilst one story links him with a move to Barcelona, another insists he is set to sign a new contract with Juventus.

 

According to Mundo Deportivo, the Blaugrana have identified the Argentinian striker as a firm target this summer, impressed with his performances in the Champions League this season.

 

However, La Gazzetta dello Sport insist that the impasse of La Joya’s new contract at Juve has finally been overcome, the Bianconeri agreeing to increase his wages to €7.5m per season as Dybala signs on until June 2021.

 

Those talks had been on-going for a number of months, but the Italian newspaper believe that there will be an official announcement after the Serie A clash with Napoli later this month.

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MD: 'Barca to go for Dybala if...'

 

 

 

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Mar 25, 2017

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Reports in Spain claim Barcelona will attempt to sign Paulo Dybala from Juventus if Neymar leaves.

 

Brazilian forward Neymar is currently the subject of a move away from the Camp Nou, with reports Chelsea agreed a world record transfer fee for the player only for manager Antonio Conte to block the transfer.

 

Although Conte does not appear to view the 25-year-old as a priority signing, Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain are also rumoured to be interested in his signature and have the financial resources to match Chelsea's offer.

 

Should this come to pass, Mundo Deportivo states the Spanish champions could look at Juve's Dybala as a possible replacement.

 

The 23-year-old is approaching the end of his second season with the Old Lady, having joined from Palermo in 2015. He has 14 goals and seven assists from 32 appearances this campaign.

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Paulo Dybala targeted by Barcelona as replacement for Neymar?

 

 

 

http://www.sportsmole.co.uk/football/barcelona/transfer-talk/news+/

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Mar 25, 2017

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Juventus striker Paulo Dybala is reportedly on the radar of Barcelona as a replacement for Neymar should the Brazilian depart in the summer.

The Catalan giants are said to be concerned about the long-term future of one of their star performers after he admitted to harbouring hopes of playing in the Premier League.

Manchester United and Manchester City have been tipped to make a bid for the 25-year-old, while Ligue 1 outfit Paris Saint-Germain could also afford a deal.

According to Spanish outlet Mundo Deportivo, Dybala is seen as a replacement for Neymar and he would jump at the chance to link up with Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez in a three-pronged Barca attack.

Dybala has seen talks over a new deal in Turin put on hold in recent weeks, but he remains adamant that he wants to stay at the club beyond the end of the season.

The 23-year-old, also linked with Man City and Real Madrid in the past, has 14 goals and five assists in 31 appearances for Juve this term.

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Barca admit 'its complicated' for Dybala

 

 

 

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Mar 27, 2017

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Barcelona technical director Roberto Fernandez admits 'it would be complicated' to sign Paulo Dybala or Marco Verratti.

 

The former Spain international also spoke about the search for a new Coach once Luis Enrique steps down at the end of the season, and reveals his side 'believes in the final' of the Champions League.

 

This is despite a quarter-final tie with Juventus, but can Barca improve from their current standing?

 

"It’s not easy to improve this team because we are already at a very high level," the technical director told Mundo Deportivo.

 

"We always try to improve it, we are attentive to what is happening on the market.

 

"There are many voices right now, but Verratti and Dybala are two players who have long contracts with their respective teams. It is very complicated to get them here.

 

"The Coach issue is important, but we'll think about the decision and notify you when it is convenient to do so.

 

"Now we are focused on La Liga, we have a lot of desire to try to win these last few games.

 

"Then we will have the Champions League against Juventus, to eliminate them will be complicated and difficult but we believe in the final.

 

"And finally we have the Copa del Rey. We may think it's the lesser competition, but even there we want to be in the best position to win.

 

"Right now it is not worth giving too much away in terms of technical information."

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Barcelona will monitor Dybala but deal very difficult - Fernandez

 

 

The technical secretary has discussed the challenge of trying to recruit

targets like the Juventus striker and midfielder Marco Verratti.

 

 

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/683/main/2017/03/27/34049542/-

 

 

Mar 27, 2017

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Barcelona are tracking Paulo Dybala but the Liga title-holders expect the Juventus forward will prove difficult to sign if they make a move for him.

 

Dybala is yet to sign a new Juve contract amid lengthy negotiations, but is still tied to the Italian champions until 2020.

 

Barca have been linked with a move for the 23-year-old as a potential replacement for Neymar if he were to leave Camp Nou, with reports suggesting Manchester United would be willing to trigger the Brazil international's €200 million release clause.

 

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Dybala has also been linked with Real Madrid, and Barca technical secretary Robert Fernandez confirmed any potential movement involving the former Palermo star would be closely watched.

 

"He is a good player and I cannot say more," Robert said to El Mundo Deportivo when asked about Dybala.

 

"At Barca we are attentive to all market movements and we have the obligation to be on guard if there is movement of a good player who is also wanted by others.

 

"Therefore, we will be prepared for any situation. But it is also true what a player is worth and what we have here."

 

Dybala, Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Marco Verratti and Arsenal defender Hector Bellerin have been among the biggest names linked with a move to Camp Nou once the season is over.

 

"Those players are under contract with their respective clubs and especially when a player has a long-term contract, it is very difficult," added Robert.

 

"We are open to bringing reinforcements, to sign a player, and always have in mind the idea of improving the team, but to improve Barcelona's team, especially our first team, it's very difficult because we have a magnificent side.

 

"We have to give value to what we have – that has always been a great concern of mine. I do not like to say which positions to improve because we have a great team and that also creates a situation that I do not like."

 

And Robert believes PSG would be unwilling to sell Italy midfielder Verratti.

 

He said: "With these players it is always a matter of money, and apart from wanting to pay the amount you want, there is PSG not wanting to sell him to you.

 

"That decision is with the club, not the player. Do you remember what happened to Thiago Silva? PSG would not negotiate with Barca."

 

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Madrid break record for Dybala?

 

 

 

http://www.football-italia.net/100261/madrid-break-record-dybala

 

 

Mar 27, 2017

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Reports in Spain claim Real Madrid could break the world transfer record for Paulo Dybala of Juventus.

 

The forward is expected to sign a new contract in the coming weeks, and it’s unlikely the Bianconeri will include a release clause.

 

Despite that, Diario Gol is claiming that Los Merengues are very interested in the Argentinian international, and are prepared to break the world transfer record.

 

It’s reported that Madrid would offer an €80m transfer fee, with another €45m in bonuses taking the total cost up to €125m.

 

These reports should be taken with a pinch of salt, however, as Juve have repeatedly stated that Dybala is not for sale.

 

The current record transfer is Paul Pogba's move from the Old Lady to Manchester United, with the midfielder costing €105m.

 

Prior to that move though, Real Madrid had broken the record on five consecutive occasions, with their deals for Luis Figo, Zinedine Zidane, Kaka, Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale.

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Bauza: ‘Dybala is fit’

 

 

 

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Mar 27, 2017

 

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Argentina Coach Edgardo Bauza confirms Juventus’ Paulo Dybala will be fit for the bench tomorrow.

 

The forward was struggling with a slight muscular injury, and didn’t feature in the 1-0 win over Chile.

 

“Juventus have been informed,” Bauza said in his Press conference ahead of the Bolivia game.

 

“His recovery has been positive and tomorrow Dybala will be available off the bench.”

 

Lucas Pratto will play with Lionel Messi in attack, as Dybala’s Juve teammate Gonzalo Higuain is suspended.

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Dybala to start for Argentina?

 

 

 

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Mar 28, 2017

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Juventus’ Paulo Dybala may start for Argentina against Bolivia, as Lionel Messi has been suspended for four games.

 

Albiceleste Coach Edgardo Bauza revealed yesterday that the Bianconeri forward would be on the bench after a muscular niggle which kept him out of the Chile game.

 

However, he may have to start in place of Messi, as the Barcelona forward has been given a four-game ban for hurling abuse at an assistant referee.

 

“Footballer Lionel Messi has been found guilty of violating art. 57 of the FDC for having directed insulting words at an assistant referee,” a statement from world football’s governing body reads.

 

“As a result, Lionel Messi will be suspended for four official matches and sanctioned with a fine of CHF 10,000.

 

“The first match for which the sanction will apply is the next fixture in the preliminary competition of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia between Bolivia and Argentina, which will be played today, 28 March.

 

“The remainder of the sanction will be served over Argentina’s subsequent FIFA World Cup qualifying matches.

 

“This decision is in line with the FIFA Disciplinary Committee’s previous rulings in similar cases. Both the player and the Argentinian Football Association have been informed of the decision today.”

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REAL MADRID TRANSFER NEWS: PAULO DYBALA
OFFER RUMOURED TO INCLUDE ALVARO MORATA

 

 

 

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2700588-real-madrid-transfer-

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Mar 29, 2017

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Real Madrid will reportedly focus their attention on signing Juventus forward Paulo Dybala this summer and are willing to use Alvaro Morata as a makeweight to get a transfer over the line.

According to Leggo (h/t Calciomercato), Madrid are set to put together a package worth around €125 million (£108.5 million) in an attempt to land Dybala, with Chelsea said to be reluctant to part ways with Eden Hazard at the moment.

That would reportedly include Morata making a return to his former club Juventus, where he spent a couple of years before he was re-signed by Madrid ahead of the current campaign.

 

In the report, it's suggested Los Blancos would need Dybala to agitate for a transfer for the deal to come off. The Argentina international forward is said to be close to agreeing a new contract with the Italian champions, who would reportedly not sell the 23-year-old for any price unless he wanted out.

That's no shock, as the forward has blossomed into one of the most exciting players in world football. As Squawka Football relayed here, Dybala has been a tough man to pin down in the final third this season in Serie A:

Although there are still inconsistencies in the striker's game, once his raw talent is harnessed completely, Dybala can go to the very top.

There aren't many forwards around who are so varied in their attributes, too. Dybala is dynamic in his movement and shooting, understatedly powerful in his running and capable of conjuring spectacular moments in the final third of the field.

 

Morata has been on the fringes of the Madrid team this season.
Morata has been on the fringes of the Madrid team this season.Francesco Pecoraro/Getty Images

He's a fine foil for other strikers, something Morata will be aware of following their time together at Juventus in the 2015-16 season. 

The Spaniard has since returned to Madrid and, unsurprisingly, with Karim Benzema, Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale in the squad, has found starts difficult to come by, with just nine in La Liga so far this term. 

But as noted by Bleacher Report's Karl Matchett, he tends to make the most of his opportunities:

Indeed, in the 2016-17 season, only Ronaldo can better Morata's goal tally of eight for Real; per WhoScored, the Spaniard is on the same amount of goals as Benzema, although he's played 505 minutes less than the Madrid No. 9.

Morata may not be as easy on the eye as a player like Dybala, but he's effective. The 24-year-old works hard, battles for every ball and has developed a reputation for popping up with crucial goals.

For Madrid manager Zidane, having a player like Morata in the squad is such an asset, although the man himself will surely be keen to play a more significant role. If he was to trade places with Dybala, he would potentially be able to earn more minutes at Juventus.

However, deals that involve a player-plus-cash are rare in the modern game given the intricacies of transfers, especially when it comes to big players. As a result, if Los Blancos do want to make Dybala their latest Galactico, a world-record fee will likely be the only way, as was the case when Juve sold Paul Pogba to Manchester United last summer.  

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Maradona: ‘Dybala a phenomenon’

 

 

 

http://www.football-italia.net/100399/maradona-‘dybala-phenomenon’

 

 

Mar 30, 2017

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Argentinian legend Diego Maradona describes Juventus forward Paulo Dybala as “a phenomenon”.

 

La Joya has been one of the Bianconeri’s star men since signing from Palermo in the summer of 2015, and has won the approval of one of history’s greatest players.

 

“I’ve been following him since he was at Instituto,” Maradona told TyC Sports.

 

“He just needs to play as many games as possible, but he’ll make it because he’s a phenomenon.

 

“Sometimes he tries to do things which are too quick for Italian football, he’s yet to get used to a certain way of playing but give him time and he’ll keep improving.

 

“He’s on the level of players like Messi, Higuain and Aguero.

 

“Messi is by far the best, but the other three are great players, each with his own characteristics. Messi and Dybala, for example, have feet Higuain doesn’t have.

 

“Therefore I’ll say that Higuain will keep scoring, but Dybala will keep growing.”

 

Maradona also took the time to criticise FIFA for the four-game ban given to Messi for insulting an assistant referee.

 

“I think his insults were a reflexive act. Compare it to [Zinedine] Zidane’s headbutt on [Marco] Materazzi…

 

“Messi is a sensational lad who doesn’t complain about anything. He’s a teddy bear with his teammates.”

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The Beautiful Reduction: A discussion of grace,
loss, being a fan of sport and Paulo Dybala

 

 

 

http://www.blackwhitereadallover.com/2017/3/30/14813760/

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Mar 30, 2017

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Fourteen people occupy a patch of grass that takes up about five percent of the entire pitch — six attackers, six defenders, a referee, and the Juventus manager Massimiliano Allegri, whose customary combustion have drawn him just a few feet away from live play. It’s the Derby della Mole, and the green field is covered with maroon and black and white. The ball trundles along the right sideline to the feet of Paulo Dybala — all five feet, nine inches of the 23-year-old Argentine — and the scene looks like the iguana in Planet Earth II, caught in a skein of snakes, bordered by rock and ocean with no discernible route of escape. Dybala is facing backward, toward his own goal. A defender is draped on his back, grabbing at La Joya’s arm.

But then he taps the ball forward. It rolls, and he steps beside it. He pirouettes, throwing his left arm in the air as he reverses direction, the ball moving with him. Two and a half seconds later, he’s darting into the right corner of the field. The significant reduction of defenders has come at the expense of space; to Dybala’s right the touchline, and quickly approaching the end line. But instead of using his speed to circumvent the defense — how does he generate that much speed with those short legs! — he stops. The two maroon shirts who had been trailing him respond quickly and begin closing in, and a third, who had been trailing, gains ground from behind. But there’s just enough open space for three touches—seemingly awkward at first; the first one almost gets away, and his body weight looks unevenly distributed. He feints right, into two defenders, hops left into a gap, and then sends a sublimely weighted through ball to Gonzalo Higuaín.

I could write a 10,000-word syntactic pastiche of what Paulo Dybala can do, and I don’t think the sentences could approach the grace he demonstrates. Dybala on the pitch is Proust on the page — the madeleine cookie, the hawthorn tree, the chiaroscuro view of a ballet stage.

“Beauty,” wrote David Foster Wallace, meditating on the grace of Roger Federer, “is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. The relation is roughly that of courage to war.”

There’s something unsettling about this sort of beauty. There’s something about watching Dybala do the things he does that makes me experience something for which people have a number of rehearsed phrases: “out of body,” “religious.” Maybe “epiphany.”

In the Washington Post last year Marco Iacoboni, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at UCLA, wrote an article in a series of posts that describe, or attempt to describe, the reasons people watch sport. His focus was on something termed the “mirror neuron.” In Iacoboni’s words, these neurons, which everyone has, allow an individual to, in a myriad of ways, “connect emotionally with others.” For the viewer of sport, he explains, it means the spectator feels what the athlete feels, experiences what the athlete experiences, to a mitigated degree, and in a translated manner.

I think that’s what happens. Watching Paulo Dybala takes me away from me.


Somewhere in the middle of Arizona, sometime in the middle of the night, the car idles in a hotel parking lot. My dad walks into a hotel to check us in. I’m fifteen years old, and my two brothers and I, caught in the bleary-eyed obfuscation of a road trip, know very little. We know we’re going to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. We know we’ll watch a precocious sophomore quarterback named Vince Young, and we’ll know he’ll probably do something beyond our ability to imagine. We know we’ll be nervous; we already are.

But at the moment, we wait in the car. We’re subject to my dad’s absolutely insane nighttime driving abilities.

This was a trope of my childhood. From Dallas, Texas, we drove to Disney World and back multiple times; we drove to North Carolina and back; we drove to California and back. We drove and drove and drove, and most of the time it was my dad driving. Sometimes my mom. But most of the time it was my dad, driving deep into the hours of the night while the rest of us slept, my mom’s short legs propped up above the glove compartment, my youngest brother in the way back, crammed impossibly between duffels and suitcases, my middle brother and I in the middle seat, a space between us. Once, we hit a deer; it was one of the only times, as a child, I heard my dad curse.

I think this is what it means to be a child; to be subjected to the authority and agency of someone else. A child sort of make decisions, but mostly he has no idea what the hell is going on — he’s forced to acquiesce, to be along for the ride.

When my dad comes back to the car, we ask if there’s a room, if we should get our bags. With the door partially open, the bright parking lots behind my dad, silhouetting him against the night sky, my dad looks confused. He says there was someone in the lobby whistling “Dixie,” someone else speaking French, and also a guy banging on a hand drum in the corner. For a moment, we wonder: what the hell is going on in there? But before we can realize he’s kidding, he smiles and tells us to grab our bags.

This piece is, of course, not journalism. I’m not breaking news, or reporting something, or even offering much of an opinion. But I do want to suggest something, to make a sort of claim.

Here’s the main and first suggestion: Sport reduces the spectator to a child.

A child is dependent on others in every way. A child lacks what I want to call bureaucratic agency: the agency to choose what to eat, how to spend money, even what to wear. Virtually all decisions are made on behalf of the child, not by the child himself. Sport has the same effect to the spectator. The spectator controls nothing; he or she is merely at the behest of the players involved.

Suggestion No. 2: Being reduced to a childlike dependency is a good thing, because being reduced to childlike dependency means one experiences a sort of de-centering.

Let me try to explain.

Sport can be — and has been for me — a moral education in at least three ways: First, in the knowledge that I am not the center of the universe. I think about David Foster Wallace, and his commencement address to Kenyon College in 2005:

Here’s one example of the utter wrongness of something I tend to be automatically sure of: Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.

The implication, of course, is that this belief of self-centricity is false. And if false, then something it morally behooves me to realize, and be aware of. I think sport harbors the possibility of unseating this false belief.

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What I’m talking about is watching Dybala and the grace he displays with the ball. I’m talking about Iacoboni’s mirror neurons. Both emotionally and even neurally, watching sport actually unseats me from myself. And most of the time when I’m living my life, I’m king. I’m considering my needs and my desires. I’m thinking about the universe affects and revolves around me.

Two corollaries to this: The first is that if am not actually the center of the universe, then I am freed from the burden of self-justification. If I’m not actually the center or main point of the universe, then I don’t need to spend all my time and energy trying to convince other people that I, in fact, am the center of the universe. I don’t have anything to prove. This is a very unpopular idea, and goes against every modernist/postmodernist/hip/American sensibility. (I think self-reliance is a bullshit concept.) But I believe it’s immensely freeing to not bear the burden of having my job, or my morality, or my whatever, be the sole reason why I exist. It’s a heavy life to live that way.

The second corollary is that if these two things are true — I am not the center of the universe; and that seeing I am not the center of the universe frees me from the need of self-justification — then I have a greater capacity to empathize with others, to live freely and generously, to be humble and not a pain in the ass and be capable of actually loving other people.

I probably sound crazy, because when I first mention sport — or sports — the first image that pops into my mind is a hoard of drunk NFL fans wearing ridiculous costumes flicking each other off, or first-fighting, or I’m reminded of the recent brawl at a Brazilian match, or racism and sport.

But this is stuff I believe.


Here is a non-exhaustive list of things that, according to bookmakers, are or were more likely to happen that Leicester City winning the Premier League last year:

  • Fatally slipping in a shower (2,232-1).
  • Simon Cowell becoming prime minister (500-1).
  • Kim Kardashian becoming president (2,000-1).
  • Elvis being alive (2,000-1).
  • Alien life discovered before 2017 (1,000-1).

Of course, the Leicester City odds were grossly inflated. It’s not difficult to come to the inclusion — without reading up on it, as I did — that bookies needed to over-inflate the odds just to get people betting on them, so that they — the bookies — could make money. But even if the odds were “only” 1,000-1, that’s still crazy!

The thing about all this soccer stuff is that I’m from Texas.

Both of my parents graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, and so all my childhood memories are saturated in burnt orange. I remember Ricky Williams breaking the rushing record. I remember going to the 2001 Big XII championship game between Colorado and Texas, in which Major Applewhite (nearly) led a dramatic comeback after the foibles of Chris Simms.

I didn’t hear the name of a soccer team until probably high school, when my eccentric, red-headed, electric-guitar banging, strangely rebellious friend named John told me he was an Arsenal fan. What is an Arsenal?

Then the 2010 World Cup happened, and my friend Andy and I — we stayed in Iowa City that summer; it’s a college town, which means it’s lovely and serene when all the annoying assholes go back home for break — would get up at 7 a.m. to watch Ghana play Serbia, or Cameroon play Japan; we’d make way too many frozen pizzas and drink the terrible coffee that he made out of his single-cup brewer which smelled of stale hazelnut, and that’s when soccer made sense to me.

Trying to stand back from the immediate emotional connection to the sport, there were three immediately identifiable aspects to the game that eventually have convinced me that soccer is the purest expression of one of the two ends of the spectrum of sports, which I see as a blend of live-action fluidity and out-of-play tactics.

  1. With its single official break in play, its lack of timeouts, and its real-time adjustments, soccer is the most fluid major sport. Tactics are of course important, but play nowhere near the role they do in, say, American football, in which there is actually only 10-15 minutes of gameplay with a live ball.
  2. Because of the high numbers of players, the importance of a each individual player is reduced, thus giving the game a more egalitarian feel. In other words, there is room for niche roles in soccer. In the NBA, for example, virtually every player on the court needs to be an athletic aberration. The rare exception—say a sharpshooter who lacks top athleticism—is usually enabled only by the sheer talent of another player who attracts extra attention. There are ten players on a 94 by 50 foot court; a single player can cover the entirety of the court with ease. LeBron James can throw down a ferocious dunk on one end, only to chase down a fool on the other end and send his layup to Mars faster than Elon Musk can say, “I built a hyperloop.” Soccer obviously doesn’t work this way. More players, more space. Of course a player can have a box-to-box effect on a game, but the amount of space and participants mitigates individual impact significantly.
  3. There are fewer scoring chances in soccer, which makes it a more “unfair” sport. There is a larger theme here that I hope to expand on in another piece, but the short version is that a team can play really, really well for an entire game, and just not convert any of the (few) chances they created. In basketball there are 95-100 possessions per game per team, most of which end with a shot (i.e. a scoring chance). In essence, the experiment is repeated many times over compared to a soccer game. The higher number of experiments repeated, the more accurate and reliable the data. This why most leagues use the point system rather than playoffs, because the repetition of the point system offsets (to some degree; but still: Leicester) the individual games. Take a look at the 2016 MLS final: Seattle beat Toronto, despite the fact that Toronto had more shots (19 to 3), more shots on target (7 to 0), and more corners (10 to 5). Basically, soccer is more unfair. I think that’s a good thing. It’s harder to predict than many of the major sports because of the considerably fewer scoring chances.

That’s a truncated version of my soccer manifesto, but the more I watch the game — I still very much consider myself new to soccer — the more each of those elements stand out, and the more I’m convinced in these moral-philosophical elements of sport, and the more I want more.


Only in sport does the spectator have a complete, utter lack of control. In virtually every other form of entertainment, there’s assurance of experience. You go into a movie very aware of the genre and accompanying tropes. You’re quite comfortable, when you walk into the theater, of what you’re getting yourself into. And the degree to which a movie can surprise you — either in disappointment or serendipity — is relatively small; it surprises you in the details only, in the variations. And that can be good and beautiful, but it’s still generally true.

Of course, there are exceptions. I can think of many movies or books that kicked my ass in a way I wasn’t in the least expecting. But if I survey all the entertainment I consume, or experience, the vast, vast majority of it is more or less an echo chamber; i.e. the preconceived idea of an experience is subsequently fulfilled by the experience itself. I watch a suspense-thriller wanting to be thrilled by suspense. I watch a romantic comedy because I want to feel good with a happy ending after the couple goes through some difficult things. It’s only in the details and variations that the degree of surprise is found.

(I don’t want to get sidetracked by qualifiers, but this observation of the echo chamber-ness of entertainment is not written as a moral indictment of the entertainment industry. Just an observation.)

But holy mackerel sport is unpredictable. There is no burden of proof, really. Things happen all the time in sport that amaze us, macro things — like Leicester — and micro things — a Leo Messi free kick. Individual athletes amaze us. Teams amaze us. Different sports amaze us in different ways, and I think there’s something amazing and graceful to find about every sport, some admirable skill, some expression of grace under pressure.

Soccer is a microcosm of life itself, not only of life’s most wondrous and beautiful elements — grace, the reconciliation between mind and body (another David Foster Wallace idea from the Federer piece), a flawless dance between tactics and unpredictability, the thrill of victory — but also its shittiest elements — painful loss, unfair loss, loss when everything pointed to winning; in an instant, when everything had been going right, when every moment and little battle had pointed to victory, when every break broke your way, the game’s gone.

Both the beauty and the loss. A Paulo Dybala faint and watching my alma mater decimated in a bowl game. It reminds me there’s something else going on, something at which the center is not me. And that’s good.

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Carlo Ancelotti plays down Paulo Dybala rumours

 

 

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Bayern Munich boss Carlo Ancelotti has called speculation linking Juventus striker Paulo Dybala with a move to the Allianz Arena "a myth".

Recent comments from Bayern chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge suggested that the German champions were interested in bringing the Argentine international to the club at the end of the season.

However, Ancelotti has said that Bayern supporters hoping that the 23-year-old will move to Germany at the end of the season will be left disappointed.

"Dybala is a very good player. But these rumours are a myth. We are focused on our game and the matches that follow it. We have no time to think about these myths," Ancelotti told reporters.

Dybala, who joined Juventus from Palermo in the summer of 2015, has scored 14 times in 32 appearances for the Italian champions this season.

 

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Dybala & Totti lead peace campaign in war-ravaged Syria

 

 

The Argentine wore an anti-war t-shirt and posted a special message

on social media calling for an end to the death and destruction in Syria.

 

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Juventus star Paulo Dybala has joined Roma icon Francesco Totti in the campaign for peace as the war in Syria that has led to millions of displaced refugees rages on.

 

Recent escalations of tension in the Middle East have led to a stand-off between United States and Russia over allegations of a chemical weapon attack.

 

Given the precarious situation, Juventus attacker Dybala has taken to social media to plead for an end to war in the world.

 

“STOP WAR! Every child is my child,” he posted on his official Instagram account, accompanied by a picture of him wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the hashtag #EveryChildIsMyChild.

 

 

Dybala posted his anti-war message just a few days after fellow Serie A stars of past and present such as Totti, Ciro Immobile, Gianluca Zambrotta and Simone Inzaghi shared their own.

 

Dybala's message has proved particularly popular, gaining almost 400,000 likes on Instagram.

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Dybala: 'Don't compare me to Messi'

 

 

 

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Paulo Dybala admits a dislike to comparisons with Lionel Messi, admitting the pair don't enjoy a great relationship.

 

After having revealed that his Juventus side have learned from the mistakes of PSG in the previous round, the 23-year-old talked about a desire to earn a Champions League winners medal of his own.

 

"I really admire and respect Messi," the Argentine told La Repubblica. "He has won the Champions League many times, and I’m only dreaming about the first. I play for Juve and I want to win. On the pitch we are equal and I will do everything to beat him.

 

"In Argentina they only said that if I had not come to Turin, they would not be angry with me. But Barcelona is not just Messi: Neymar is at the top too.

 

"Am I the new Messi? People need to understand that I am Paulo Dybala and I want to continue to be so. I understand the comparisons and expectations on me from the Argentinians, but I do not want to be the new Messi or the Messi of the future.

 

"He is unique, like [Diego] Maradona. It was never said that I am his heir.

 

"But he does not talk so much, he keeps himself to himself, we haven't had a great relationship.

 

"Three years ago I was at Palermo in Serie B and it was hard to imagine this, however tomorrow will the most special game of my career.

 

"When I arrived, I was playing as a striker and [Massimiliano] Allegri has transformed me. But here I also had to change as a person because you have to have a different life beyond training and the games.

 

I have around me people who have won it all, and I'm trying to become one of them."

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Dybala: 'Fine at Juve for now'

 

 

 

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After interest from Real Madrid and Barcelona, Juventus forward Paulo Dybala reveals he's fine in Turin - for now.

 

In a long interview ahead of the Champions League quarter-final with Barcelona on Tuesday, La Joya revealed his dislike to comparisons with Lionel Messi and how his side have learned from the collapse of PSG at Camp Nou.

 

"I have yet to grow, the great champions are others," the 23-tear-old told La Repubblica. "So many players of my age had already won important trophies, I’m still trying to improve.

 

"Words are not enough to make me feel a top player. When I went to Camp Nou to see ‘El Clasico’ a thought popped into my head that one day I would play in that stadium, and I’ll fulfill this on April 19.

 

"I do not know the future, so many things can happen. I am happy, my teammates wish me well, as do the fans and the club. At the moment I'm fine here.

 

"If I scored against Barcelona it would be spoken about around the world. But I’d enjoy it just like the win over Chievo, I’m happy all the same.

 

"Goals give you confidence, but after the assist to [Gonzalo] Higuain I played more calmly, with more serenity and this is what I want to do. To generate the play, to create for the team.

 

"As for tomorrow, first of all I hope that Juve do not concede a goal."

 

The Argentinian then went on to reveal how former Barcelona wing-back Dani Alves has helped with preparations for the match.

 

"With him I've talked a lot about the match, especially on the movement between each other, because he is a player with very good feet. I can help him a lot, as [Lionel] Messi did at Barcelona.

 

"It is a quarter-final against one of the strongest in the world: the atmosphere, the people, and the emotions you feel when arriving at the stadium are not the same as always."

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Why Juventus superstar Dybala has
no interest in becoming Messi's heir

 

 

The Juventus ace is often compared with his compatriot but he is only concerned

with honouring the memory of his dad, who passed away when he was 15.

 

 

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Just like everyone else in Italy, Paulo Dybala was deeply affected by the plight of Edoardo Di Carlo and Samuel Di Michelangelo, two young boys left orphaned by the Rigopiano avalanche on January 18 that claimed the lives of 29 people.

 

After hearing that pair were Juventus fans, the Argentine made video calls to both and invited them to Vinovo in the hope of showing them that they were not alone.

 

Their stories were not the same but Dybala could relate to the sense of loss and loneliness.

 

When he was 15 years of age, he lost his father to pancreatic cancer. The youngest of three brothers, Paulo was kept out of the loop by the rest of the family.

 

"To protect me, they didn't tell me everything," he revealed. "I was hoping that he would recover. Today, I dream about him and I wake up in tears."

 

Paulo Dybala father PS

 

Given the profound impact that his father's death had on him, it seems amazing that Dybala managed to make it this far in the professional game.

 

After all, it was Adolfo who had been the driving force behind his son's fledgling career. When Paulo went for a trail at Newell's Old Boys at eight, his father was unconvinced by the club. "We're staying at home," he told his son. "Trust me."

 

Paulo instead joined Instituto de Cordoba and it was his father who used to drive him to and from every training session.

 

When Adolfo passed, Paulo was left with no other option but to leave his native Laguna Larga for Cordoba, which was an hour away by car, and live at the club's guesthouse, resulting in the nickname 'El pibe de la pensión'.

 

It was a miserable time in the still-grieving youngster's life. "It wasn't easy," the forward admitted. "My family was far away.

 

"I used to lock myself in the bathroom to cry. But I didn't give up."

 

Indeed, Dybala says that the loss of father "strengthened" him and helped him grow.

 

It also made him more determined than ever to make it. "My father had a dream," he explained, "that at least one of his sons would become a footballer.

 

"Gustavo, the eldest, didn't manage it and neither did Mariano, who everyone said was better than me but who suffered from homesickness.

"So, I had to do it in order to honour the memory of my father and realise his dream."

 

He did just that. Less than two years later, at the age of 17, Dybala become Cordoba's youngest ever goalscorer, taking the record away from a certain Mario Kempes.

 

The following season, he netted 17 goals in 38 games, earning him both a new nickname, 'La Joya' (The Jewel), and an €11.8 million move to Palermo.

 

It was in Sicily that he came under the wing of Maurizio Zamparini. Those familiar with the former Palermo president know that his views should be taken with a pinch of salt; that his words carry as much value as the contracts he awarded his coaches.

 

So, when Zamparini claimed Dybala was Lionel Messi's heir during his breakout campaign in 2014-15, few paid him any heed. However, that no longer looks like such a fanciful claim.

 

"When I sold him to Juventus for €32 million plus €8m in bonuses, they were talking about it like it was a scandalous figure," Zamparini reminisced earlier this year.

 

"Now they're saying [Juventus director general Beppe] Marotta is a genius. How much is Dybala worth now? At least €100m; he's the new Messi!"

 

Certainly, as the likes of Gonzalo Higuain have noted, there are similarities: the dribbling skills, the low centre of gravity, the terrific touch and velvet left foot.

 

Perhaps more importantly, Dybala shares the same unwavering belief in his own ability.

 

It was striking that when he arrived at Juve in 2015, he didn't look in the least bit intimidated by his new surroundings.

 

He felt he belonged at one of the biggest clubs in the world, not just comfortable but completely at ease alongside some of the best players in the world.

 

Indeed, with Andrea Pirlo having departed that summer, he sought out the responsibility of taking free-kicks, while he even emulated Messi by getting dismissed on his Argentina debut.

 

However, being constantly compared to arguably the greatest player of all time is a rather large cross to carry.

 

Gerard Deulofeu recently admitted that he found the burden too heavy to carry after breaking into the Barcelona team in 2011.

 

"It was more harmful than beneficial," the Spain international told Forza Milan last month.

 

Paulo Dybala father PS

 

Dybala, though, seems as unperturbed by the comparisons as he was by the furore surrounding his transfer fee - and perhaps we should not be surprised.

 

He probably has the best chance of living up to the hype simply because he is not driven by the desire to be 'The new Messi'.

 

"I am Dybala and I want to be only Dybala, although I understand that there are comparisons," the 23-year-old told La Repubblica on the eve of Juventus' Champions League meeting with Barcelona. "There is only one Messi, as there was only one Maradona."

 

Clearly, the only thing Dybla worries about his honouring the memory of his father.

 

"I dedicate my goals to him," he said. "Football has helped me a lot and I was a player more by his will than my own.

 

"He taught me to fight and never give up. His dream was to see me on the football field.

 

"I know that today my father is proud of me." And that is all Dybala has ever wanted.

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Barcelona better than Real Madrid for
Juventus star Dybala, claims Zambrotta

 

 

The Italian believes his former club would be a better eventual

destination for the Argentine forward than their fierce Spanish rivals.

 

 

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Juventus star Paulo Dybala would be more suited to playing for Barcelona than Real Madrid, according to Gianluca Zambrotta.

 

Dybala is yet to sign a new deal in Turin after lengthy negotiations with Juve, but remains under contract until 2020.

 

That has not stopped speculation linking him with Barca and Real, though, with the 23-year-old already emerging as one of the game's biggest stars since his €40million move to the Italian champions from Palermo in 2015.

 

Dybala will come up against Barca in the first leg of Juve's Champions League quarter-final in Turin on Tuesday and Zambrotta, who previously played for both clubs, thinks Camp Nou would be a better eventual destination than Madrid.

 

Asked who Dybala would be more suited to, Zambrotta told Omnisport: "Barcelona for sure.

 

"He is a young talent with a great character and he is proving it. He could easily play on either side as they are both huge clubs, but being a creative and Argentine number 10 he is closer to Messi than Cristiano Ronaldo. 

 

"He would be suited much better where once Ronaldinho played - on the Blaugrana side."

 

 

 

Zambrotta feels Juve's strikeforce – which also contains Gonzalo Higuain – has a formidable look as Massimiliano Allegri's men prepare to take on Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar.

 

"Dybala will be keen to play and perform in such an important competition," he said.

 

"Both of them [Dybala and Higuain], when they play together, are quality. 

 

"Higuain for his goalscoring rate and reliability in the box and Dybala for his creativity and character. They have gelled very well."

 

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Report: Dybala has new Juve deal

 

 

 

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Apr 12, 2017

 

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Paulo Dybala has already agreed a new contract with Juventus to 2021, earning €7m per year, according to reports.

 

La Joya hit the headlines with his brace in last night’s Champions League quarter-final 3-0 win over Barcelona.

 

Of course the 23-year-old’s skills were nothing new to Juve or fans of Serie A football, but that performance will have sparked even more transfer speculation.

 

His current contract is due to expire in 2020, but according to Il Messaggero newspaper, Dybala has already agreed a new deal with Juventus and it was finalised several weeks ago.

 

They are simply waiting for the right moment to announce the extension to June 2021 with a significant pay rise to €7m per year.

 

Juve bought Dybala from Palermo in July 2015 for €33.7m and this season he has contributed 16 goals and eight assists in 36 competitive games.

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Dybala has the ability and work ethic
for Juventus to be built around him

 

 

 

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Apr 12, 2017

 

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Google Earth does a fine job of describing just where La Joya -- the jewel -- was first mined. It shows Paulo Dybala's hometown of Laguna Larga, in Argentina, as a grey-white rectangle surrounded by hundreds of green rectangles.

In the aftermath of World War II, Dybala's grandfather Boleslaw was forced to emigrate from Poland to Argentina. The Nazis had occupied his village and taken him away to work for the German Reich, and he struggled to find work when he returned home. His story, eloquently told in this documentary, was of an immigrant, who arrived penniless and slept rough, before falling in love, getting married and building a new life in the New World.

Laguna Larga is farmland -- flat, plain, soy- and corn-growing farmland. That, perhaps, ought to blow away the first myth about how all No. 10s are nurtured: They don't all play in inner-city crowded alleys. Likewise, a "helicopter dad" driving you to practice, 40 miles there and 40 miles back, doesn't necessarily mean you'll grow up coddled, spoiled and soft.

That's what Boleslaw's son and Dybala's father, Adolfo, did, from the time his son was 9 and joined the youth academy at Instituto Atletico Central Cordoba, until his death from cancer when Paulo was 15. From having nearly two hours a day of father-son highway conversation, all of a sudden there was nothing.

After Adolfo died, Dybala left Instituto for six months but then returned, vowing to continue his pursuit of a pro career. It was with one key difference, though: no more daily commute from Laguna Larga, even if meant being away from his mother and family. Instead, he was going to live in club housing.

The thought of the familiar daily drive without his dad, Dybala revealed in a 2014 interview, was too much to bear. The solitude in his new surroundings was tough -- sometimes he'd lock himself in the bathroom and cry for hours -- but, relative to what his father and grandfather endured, it was nothing.

At 17, he made his debut for Instituto in Argentina's second tier. That's when he became known as "La Joya," going on to start every single league game, plus both playoff matches -- Instituto narrowly missed out on promotion -- and finishing with 17 goals.

In the summer of 2012, Dybala moved to Palermo for €12 million ($15m at the time), quite a fee for a kid who had never played a minute of top-flight football and had never turned out for Argentina at the U17, let alone U20, level. And there was a backstory to his move that was never fully resolved. A portion of his "economic rights" had been earlier sold to a third-party investment fund -- third-party ownership was not illegal at the time -- and Palermo, in Serie A, seemed like a good place for him to develop.

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Paulo Dybala starred for Juventus vs. Barcelona on Tuesday, scoring twice in a 3-0 win.

Initially, though, things were not straightforward, and Dybala's first season in Italy was something of a blur: He started just 11 games and Palermo were relegated. He was also homesick. If the distance from Instituto's club accommodation to Laguna Larga felt huge, you can imagine what more than 5,000 miles felt like. Skype and care packages from home helped a little, but it was a brutal transition. His second campaign was also difficult: Palermo cruised to promotion, but he missed a chunk of the season because of injury.

Boleslaw and Paulo had crossed the same ocean -- half a century apart and going in different directions and in different circumstances. One faced the challenge of building a new life, the other of building a career -- and helping fulfill a father's dream. Paulo needed to adapt. He was La Joya, sure, but the No. 10 role is something that is earned and one which, increasingly, is hard to pin down in the modern game. He hit the gym; he adapted to different roles.

And the breakthrough came in 2014-15. With Palermo back in Serie A, Dybala and another Argentine forward, Franco Vazquez, formed a quasi-telepathic partnership. Vazquez, an Italian international whose mother was born in the country, was nicknamed El Mudo -- the mute -- but he was plenty eloquent on the pitch.

Dybala played at center-forward, with Vazquez in behind, and it was spectacular to watch. The pair found each other effortlessly, combining for 23 goals and 20 assists in league play; not bad for a newly promoted side playing almost exclusively on the counter-attack.

Juventus then spent €32m ($34m), rising to €40m ($42.5m), to make made Dybala part of their post-Carlos Tevez-Andrea Pirlo-Arturo Vidal rebuilding process. He was still just 21, and the plan was to develop slowly. But cream does rise to the top, and he collected 19 goals and nine assists during his first season in Turin. When the club accepted that Paul Pogba would move for a world-record fee last summer, the belief was that they would now build around Dybala.

Given that, it surprised some -- including yours truly -- when Juve signed Gonzalo Higuain for a whopping €90m, even before the Pogba deal was complete. Other than his age, fee and wages, the concern was how Higuain's arrival might affect Dybala. The youngster was Juve's future and had already been shunted all over the attacking front. Wasn't it time to build around him rather than force him to once again adapt to others?

Thus far, Juve have been proved right. Higuain has already scored 27 goals in all competitions this season. That part, perhaps, wasn't surprising. But it's the way Dybala has adapted that has been remarkable. He has played out wide, alongside his fellow countryman and behind him, all without missing a beat and showing the sort of versatility and tactical intelligence you don't expect from a forward his age.

Dybala's awareness and selflessness continue to astound, when juxtaposed with a guy of his talent. Ordinarily teams adapt to individual talent, not the other way around. He has shown a blue-collar ethic not often associated with No. 10s.

After his two-goal performance vs. Barcelona on Tuesday, superlatives flowed, as did comparisons to Lionel Messi, who happened to be Dybala's idol growing up. Getting carried away helps nobody, so let's leave that to one side. For now, the next step is to have a top side built around him, the way Barcelona is for Messi.

Because, thus far, Dybala has shown adaptability and work rate beyond his years, so you wonder what he can achieve when his teammates adapt to him and not the other way around. Then again, given what he has endured, you somehow feel Dybala doesn't mind being -- at once -- the grunt and leading light. This is one jewel that is still being hewn and refined.

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