Charles De Ketelaere walks on water. With a second half of the season as convincing as the first, the Red Devil will undoubtedly be in the running for the best player of the season award in Serie A.
As soon as he steps onto a pitch, he proves to Domenico Tedesco that he is wrong not to use it more. This weekend, Charles De Ketelaere distinguished himself once again by scoring a new double with Atalanta, allowing the Dea to win in the final moments against Empoli and maintain its place as leader of Serie A.
Author of five goals and five assists in the league, three goals and four assists in the Champions League, but above all a huge impact in the game, the Red Devil is widely considered one of the best players in the first part of this edition of Series A.
La Gazzetta dello Sport, the leading sports media in Italy, paid him a vibrant tribute this week. “He is the symbol of Atalanta's supremacy, one of the stars of the championship. His two exploits allowed Gasperini and Atalanta to have a magical Christmas in the lead.”
In Serie A, the best player in the first round is perhaps Charles De Ketelaere
Naturally, the Italian daily does not fail to return to his missed time at AC Milan. “Football is strange. De Ketelaere cost Maldini his job as sports director. This Fantasista (editor's note: Japanese manga on the theme of football) à la Kaka had been paid dearly, but no one understood it. This choice has used as a weapon for the owner to get the bulky Maldini fired.”
With Atalanta, De Ketelaere is two points ahead of Napoli at the top of the championship. “He's another player with the Dea. He scores, assists, invents football with every action. A permanent spectacle of a boy who no longer has the shy face of his Milan years. His look reflects absolute concentration and a hunger to win”, concluded the editorialist of Gazzetta dello Sport. A beautiful tribute.
