his goal extinguished the Napoli-Corriere.it party

Like the villain from children’s fairy tales, Boulaye Dia entered the history of Naples that was about to win the third championship in front of its fans. He did it his way, scoring a goal that was as beautiful as it was difficult. Return on the left, Osimhen jumped with a tunnel and shot that goes into the far corner, where Meret cannot reach. Not new: Dia has already scored 12 goals (and 6 assists) in the league. Equaled the record for goals with the grenade in Serie A, set at 12 by Marco Di Vaio.

Salerno, I will be your light, he had said in the summer, landed in Italy from Villarreal, on a onerous loan (1 million euro) with a redemption right set at 12 million in favor of the Campania club. speech state. To say that, for him, nothing was easy. Born in Oyannax, near the French Alps, to a family of Senegalese origin, Boulaye was the sixth of seven siblings. Destiny seemed to have prepared a different life for him. At the age of 12, his father, a gruff man who didn’t trust football, accompanied him to a tryout with Saint-Etienne, 160 kilometers from home. On the way to the machine suffers a breakdown, the sample is skipped.

Dia then finds an agreement with Lyon: every Wednesday he goes to train at their sports center. But, another problem, Boulaye didn’t grow: the OL doctors took an x-ray of his wrist, then discarded it. We have to fall back on something else. Dia graduates and becomes an electrician. He works and continues to play, with the Jura Sud Amateurs. And he continues to score: 15 goals in 21 games in 2017/18, in the fourth division. He calls it Reims. Executives look him up on FaceTime: Come here for a tryout, if it goes well you’ll play in the reserve team. He scores three goals in six games, they immediately take him to the first team, in Ligue 1, the top French championship. He made his debut in October 2018, in a month he found his first goal, at Guingamp. He takes off. He calls it the Villarreal, with whom he won the Europa League last season (with goal in the semi-final against Liverpool). In the same year he became African champion with Senegal. In the national team he plays with Koulibaly, a former Napoli totem. Who knows, maybe today the only blue fan happy with the goal that postpones the Scudetto.