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Borini keeps on running
Ahead of Fabio Borini's Italy bow, Scott Fleming recounts the tireless youngster's journey from West London to the Welsh Coast to the banks of the Tiber, with a knife between his teeth.
He never stops running. Watch the eight goals Fabio Borini has scored for Roma this season and you'll find almost all of them are the culmination of lung bursting runs. But he doesn't stop there. He doesn't catch his breath or accept the congratulations of his teammates, he keeps on running, as if he doesn't understand the game and isn't aware he's scored, like a little moustachioed Forrest Gump. He gallops off towards the sidelines, a big smile on his face, his right hand thrust between his teeth.
As celebrations go it's fairly naff, not quite as cool as Francesco Totti's thumb sucking or Pablo Osvaldo's machine gun routine, but it does provide us with some important insight if you're wondering what made Chelsea sign Borini when he was just 16 “ or what has compelled Cesare Prandelli to give the now 20-year-old his first international call-up for Italy's friendly against the USA in Genoa.
"I've been planning that celebration for a long time," he said after scoring his first senior goals in March last year, a brace for Swansea versus Nottingham Forest. "In Italy it means you've got the knife between your teeth “ it's when you want to achieve something so badly that you are angry to reach your goals."
Borini, who is a full three years younger than anyone else in the Azzurri squad for tomorrow's game, has had the good fortune to work with a bevy of respected Coaches in his short career to date, from Carlo Ancelotti to Brendan Rogers, Ciro Ferrara, Luis Enrique and now Prandelli, and not one of them has a bad thing to say about the boy from Bentivoglio.
If there's a theme to the praise lavished upon Borini by bosses past and present it's this “ his mental qualities, hunger, passion, the 'knife between his teeth', distinguish him and promote him above more naturally gifted teammates. "I was left very impressed by his determination," says Prandelli.
"Fabio lives for goals, first and foremost he expects to score in every game he plays," commented Rodgers, whose Swansea side have been adulated for their attractive football in the Premier League, but might still be in the Championship if it wasn't for Borini, so influential was the young Italian in his two months on loan at the Welsh club. Rodgers, who had previously worked with Borini in his capacity as reserve team Coach at Chelsea, attempted to bring the Azzurrini forward back to the Liberty Stadium even after Parma's summer swoop, but the Roma deal was already done. Borini headed for the Eternal City before he'd made a single competitive appearance for the Gialloblu.
Signing for such a big club seemed premature, and the Bologna youth product was little more than a bit part player until Osvaldo was struck down by injury in January. Enrique could have drafted in former Barcelona colleague Bojan Krkic as a replacement. If it was just a matter of God given ability he would have. "Enrique can no longer do without the tireless running of Borini," declared the Gazzetta dello Sport after the Giallorossi's 4-0 victory over Inter at the start of the month. "He ran himself into the ground and did the work of two players." That game was Borini's breakthrough, he scored two splendid goals and left Inter's defenders Lucio and Walter Samuel wheezing and reaching for their zimmer frames.
His style of play is old fashioned, as is his hair, his moustache, even his position “ not quite a winger, not quite a forward, more of a wing forward. But while Borini may lack Bojan's sophistication he more than makes up for it with good old-fashioned graft. And that's what makes him arguably the most exciting player Italy have produced since the man whose place he has took in Prandelli's squad, Mario Balotelli.
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