Being the second scorer of any team, whatever it may be, is not easy at all. Duván Zapata has rubbed shoulders in the history of Atalanta de Bergamo with 79 goals in 162 games played with the Italian team. He has been a fundamental piece under the orders of the technical director, Gian Piero Gasperini.
The rumors are huge that put Duván Zapata in the sights of the Premier League with Newcastle United. However, in Italy they want the ‘Toro’ to stay because of his great presentations, although during this season he had several absences due to an injury that reduced him in a large part of Serie A.
Without international competitions at the club level in the following season, Duván Zapata will be the fundamental card to achieve that desire to return to those tournaments. Luca Percassi, general director of Atalanta, commented at an event on how fundamental Duván is for the club.
‘Duván Zapata represents one of the most emblematic players. With Dad we had decided to make a significant investment at that time, focusing on a player who, in our opinion, had unique characteristics. It will be a coincidence that then that year we went to the Champions League’, commented Luca Percassi. His father, Antonio, is in charge of transfers at the club.
In addition, he added, ‘he is one of the players we love the most, but I must say that all the players on the squad have their story and I remember all the moments in which we selected them, talked to them and convinced them to be part of the Atalanta project. ‘.
Luca Percassi also spoke about other signings throughout the campaign, ‘in recent years we have invested a lot. Last summer Musso, Zappacosta, Koopmeiners and Boga arrived, who was the most requested player in history to make a difference. But in recent years we have done the same: Muriel, Malinovskyi, Zapata’.
