Inter midfielder Davide Frattesi revealed he would have liked to be a lawyer, if he hadn’t have had a career in football. The Nerazzurri new boy spoke with DAZN about his first few months with the club, his beginnings in football, and what he brings to Inter on the pitch:
“I began when I was 4 and a half years old, it was my mum who took me to play because I was too hot-headed (laughs, ed.). She asked the pediatrician if there was a sport that could help calm me down. In the early days I cried because I remember getting tired, but it worked for her. Eventually it became my passion. If I hadn’t become a footballer? I would have been a tennis player, probably. But I would have liked to be a lawyer.
“First stadium? The Curi (Perugia, ed.), we did a tournament when we were really young. At the time we were all super happy. The first as a Pro In the Coppa Italia, in 2017, there too it was a great emotion. By the way, on the pitch, in Atalanta, there was Bastoni.”
“Being a keeper? Yes, when I was a child I played goalkeeper, then going on I played striker. Franceschini changed my role by putting me in at midfield, even there I didn’t agree and in fact I complained. Today I have to say thank you to him.”
“When I finished the youth sector and went to Sassuolo, where I didn’t play, I broke my fifth metatarsal. It was a bit of an odd year, but these things have to be taken into account. It’s difficult for everything to go well’.
“When I want something, I try to get it by trying until the end: that’s a merit. The defect is that I’m sometimes touchy. On the pitch I’m a worker, a tireless player, the final third is something I need to improve on, which is ball handling”.
