Taremi in Inter-Porto, the striker who scores and challenges the regime in Iran - Corriere.it

Taremi in Inter-Porto, the striker who scores and challenges the regime in Iran - Corriere.it


Of Paul Tomaselli

The Iranian center forward condemns the repression in Tehran. Already 5 goals in the Champions League a key player for Sergio Conceicao

Mehdi Taremi isn't afraid of anything, not even the Iranian regime, an opponent he hasn't stopped fighting even after the World Cup lights have gone out. The latest indictment of the best player of Team Melli and Porto, arrived on January 30, through his social profile: As an Iranian, I ask for the release of the prisoners arrested and imprisoned in these recent events.

A few weeks earlier Taremi, who comes from a conservative family and in the past had shown closeness to the government, had already made his voice heard against the terrible repression that began in September: Justice cannot be done with a noose. What society will find peace with bloodshed and executions every day?

Questions in front of which the festive noise of the Champions League seems out of place, but Taremi - an idol at home and a player now solid at certain levels, in the prime of his maturity - used more than others to keeping plans well separated: on the day of he debut in Qatar against England, when the Iranians did not sing the national anthem and took the field crushed by the pressure for the possible consequences of their gesture, he still scored twice in the general defeat. After all, if you are not afraid of the regime, can you be afraid of Maguire, Skriniar or Bonucci?

The main danger for Inter, this year he has already scored 5 goals in the Champions League (with two assists), adding 11 in the league (5 assists): the center of gravity of the Portuguese game is him, not only for his goals, also if those of course weigh. Against Ronaldo's Juve two years ago in the round of 16 it took him 63 seconds to mock Bentancur and Szczesny and in the quarter-finals against Chelsea - then European champions right in the Porto stadium against Manchester City - he scored a bicycle kick that was elected the best of the tournament.

Milan, Liverpool and Atletico are the other excellent victims of this technical forward, with a sense of goal and a taste for assists, a player who can remember Dzeko as capable of tying the offensive game. In the league, Taremi scores more than one goal every two games (65 in 117) and when Conceiao says I don't care if Lukaku or Dzeko plays, I'm interested in Taremi and Martinez, it's not false modesty, because thanks to its forwards, Porto can dominate the game (We like to put pressure, be aggressive) or focus on the counterattack: We cannot distort ourselves – says the coach -. But looking for the right key is exciting. The deck is in Taremi's hand.

February 22, 2023 (change February 22, 2023 | 07:05)



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