Magnificent Mr. Matteo Tramoni. France celebrates our "11" on L'Equipe

Take a player from Pisa and put him alongside people who are starting players for Liverpool, which is leading the Premier League, or he is among the starters of a certain Carletto Ancelotti in the Real Madrid chessboard in Spain. Even better: think that this Nerazzurri player has ousted players of the calibre of Kylian Mbappè or Theo Hernandez from the ideal Top 11 of the past weekend. Don't think we're crazy, the rarefied air of the very high altitude at which Pippo Inzaghi's team is travelling hasn't led us to hallucinate. This is what emerges from the French newspaper "L'Équipe", which at the beginning of each week publishes the lineup with the best interpreters from beyond the Alps involved in the championships during the past weekend: well, in the lineup made official a few hours ago there is a certain Matteo Tramoni from Ajaccio. What can we say: in our parts we had already understood that the number 11 was literally out of category.

How else to define a footballer who, with his presence on the pitch, pushes the rest of his teammates to earn over 2,5 points per game on average? Or again: what words to use for a striker who, returning from a tricky and annoying muscle injury, despite the understandable need to find the rhythm of the game, managed to score two very important goals in two consecutive big matches? Matteo Tramoni represents for Sporting Club, but more generally for Serie B, the face capable of capturing the front row of the most prestigious showcases at a national and international level. In short: there can be no better advert for the club on via Battisti, but also for the so-called "minor" football movement, at this time. This is where the investiture of the French sports newspaper comes from, which has placed Tramoni in an ideal 3-4-1-2 in which, as we have already underlined, there are no real "big shots" places. And so the Pisa crest – and here, like brave Davids, we "knock down" the French Goliath: "L'Équipe" used the scudetto from the Battini era, confusing it with the one used for seven years now – is proudly displayed next to the logos of Bayern Munich and Liverpool.

Our Matteo was deployed in an ideal formation that sees Thomas Didillon (Willem II, Dutch team) between the posts; in defense Ibrahima Konatè (Liverpool), Dayot Upamecano (Bayern Munich) and Olivier Boscagli (PSV Eindhoven); in midfield together with Tramoni there are Eduardo Camavinga (Real Madrid), Anthony Caci (Mainz, Bundeslinga) and David Douline (Servette, Switzerland); in attack there are Allan Saint-Maximin (Fenerbahce), Hugo Ekitike of Eintracht Frankfurt and Rayan Philippe (playing for Braumschwieg, second German division). Incidentally: it is the second time that Tramoni ends up in this selection of excellence. "Well done (with the accent on the "o"), Matteo!".

MA