Can I be your first cheerleader?
This was written by a Juventus "fan" under the posted picture with Vasilij Adžić and published on the X social network.
The 17-year-old, super-talented midfielder of Budućnosti spent the previous days in Turin - where he got to know his future club. Everything is ready for a historic transfer, the biggest ever from Montenegro, which will be definitively made official in the first days of February.
"Adžić arrived in Turin. He visited the club's facilities, he watched the game against Sassuolo", announced the journalist of the Italian edition of Goal.com, which has almost half a million followers on the X network.
The management of Budućnosti accepted the offer of Juventus, according to which the "old lady" will pay the Podgorica club two million euros as the basis for the transfer, with the fact that the final figure can grow up to, for Montenegrin football conditions, an incredible five million. Everything depends on the so-called "bonuses" - what the young Montenegrin representative fulfills in the following years in one of the biggest Italian and European clubs.
During his two-day stay in the city at the foot of the Alps, Adžić visited the Juventus camp, the Juventus hotel, but also a special camp that uses Juve's latest invention "Next Gen", a team under the age of 23, which competes in the third Italian league (Serie C) and in which they develop Juventus talents.
One of them - 18-year-old Turkish Kenan Yildiz, in recent days often a stater in the first team, three times and a scorer, is a player who is talked about and is the first big product of Juventus NG.
Adžić, who will try to follow in his footsteps, was welcomed in Turin by Giovanni Mana, head of the "Next Gen" project, for which he received the manager of the year award in Italy just 30 days ago.
In 2018, the Juventus "Nex Generation" project was created - a team under the age of 23 that competes in the third league (Serie C), in which Juve's talents are developed, and for which Giovanni Mana, the project manager, recently received the award - manager of the year in Italy. Juve "Nex Gen", will initially be Adžić's home in Turin, from where he will try to impose himself on the first team
"In recent years, we have been reaping the fruits of the project started in 2018, which we are very proud of. The goal of the 'Next Gen' project is sporting, but also financial - let's not forget, for example, the numerous young people who play in various Italian teams. We are happy and satisfied, we know that this is the right path and we must continue like this. Over the years, there have been ups and downs, and due to the fact that we have accelerated the transition of some 'Next Gen' guys to the first team, so I am convinced that we will achieve our goals on the field, with peace and confidence", said Mana while receiving prestigious award.
The "Next Gen" project was also presented to Adžić, his family members, the agent - the team that plays its home matches in Alessandria, about 100 kilometers from Turin, will be the center from which the most talented Montenegrin footballer will knock on the door of the first team. He will also train with the first team, and will immediately compete for Serie A matches...
Juventus sports director Cristiano Giuntoli, the creator of the champion Napoli, who took over the position at the Turin giant at the beginning of this season, also welcomed Adžić. And he is doing well - the "old lady", although with a reconstructed, rejuvenated team, is the only one following Inter in Serie A.
The highlight of the two-day stay in Turin for Vasilij was the Juventus - Sassuolo match, which he watched from the box of Alessandro del Piero, one of the greatest legends of the "old lady", and then meeting the guy who marked the match with two goals, the Serbian striker Dušan Vlahović. .
Adžić and Vlahović will soon be teammates. Then, until June (when, after turning 18, he will be eligible to play abroad), the biggest pearl of Montenegrin football will try to help Budućnost in their quest for the double crown. And the preparations of the Podgorica team for the spring battles will be briefly abandoned in ten days - in order to undergo medical examinations and put the initials on the contract with Juventus.
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