Kean, World Cup dream: "For football you do everything. As a child I would climb over to play at the Oratory"

Florence, 3 April 2025 - He is the character of the moment in Italian football. If the Fiorentina he clings to his goals for a dream end to the season, the national team also needs him to chase that World Cup that has been missing (even just in terms of participation) for too long. Moise Kean he has a dream and he talked about it during a long interview given to the official channel of the Italian national team.

"When I was little I went to the oratory, we played until late challenging each other in five-on-five tournaments. At a certain point the parish priest had to close and made us go out, we waited for him to leave and climbed over to go back to play. For football you do anything". There are obviously some fundamental figures in Moise's life. Starting with his mother Buckskin. “He has often been a father to me, he has never given up and is a great example”. And then the older brother John, born in '93, with whom he shares the first 'transfer' from the Don Bosco oratory pitch to the Asti youth sector.

The relationship with the blue jersey is full of passion and feeling: "I remember the 2006 World Cup, I was 6 years old and the bar in the square was always full - says Moise -. I saw how much people cared and I said to myself: one day I want to wear the Italy jersey because I want people to experience these emotions for me and for my team. I have always dreamed of wearing the national team jersey”.

Kean, reborn in Florence, has scored twenty-four goals this season. Twenty-one with the Fiorentina jersey. Three with the national team, including the last two in Dortmund against Germany. They were not enough to advance in the Nations League, but they were enough to make everyone understand that the challenge with Retegui he wants to win it to lead the assault on the World Cup. He who, despite being born in 2000, already has a lot of history. Like the one at Everton in the Premier League: "A great experience, even if in England it didn't go as I would have liked. But you can learn from everything and you can always get out of difficult moments. Abroad has opened my eyes, I feel lucky to have played in France with so many champions like Mbappé, Neymar and Cristiano Ronaldo".

And then the music, Moise's other great passion. "I've always liked music - explains Kean - in my family there have always been sports and music. It was my dream to make music and release my music. With my album (last December he gave birth to 'Chosen', the Chosen, the first album of his career as a (t)rapper) I wanted to send a message to today's youth: if you're good at doing more things, why not do them? I write at home after training or when I'm away. It's something that calms me down and makes me happy".

Alessandro Latini