Icardi, the stigmatized goalscorer: he earns half a million euros a month in Turkey, but people try to get information on Google

Mauro Icardi is an atypical player. He has the prerequisites to be present in every call-up for the national team, but his connection with the blue-and-whites is sporadic. That relationship was also born out of convenience: when the forward wanted to represent both Spain and Italy, Alexander Sabella called him up for the 2014 World Cup qualifiers in Brazil. He had already participated in the youth team, but was not armored for the Major. Then he got the call from George Sampaoli and also that of Lionel Scaloniat the beginning of its cycle, but always dropper.

Despite the number of goals and millionaire passes, this striker, just 30 years old, is not recognized on a popular level. This is confirmed by Google, which knows everything and registers. The appearance of him in master chefopen Argentine television cooking program, sparked a series of questions related to the typing of his surname: “Who is Icardi?”, “Icardi goal”, “Icardi is back with Wanda” and “Where is Mauro Icardi from”.

Is it from Rosario and how Lionel Messi He arrived in Europe by decision of his family, who left Argentina at the height of the crisis that broke out in 2001. Settled in the Canary Islands, Icardi began his journey in Neighborhood Sports Union, a club that no longer exists but where he left forever 500 goals distributed among the different training divisions. By the time he turned 12, the family had already turned down the offers for Valencia, Deportivo La Coruna, Liverpool, Arsenal AND Seville: signed for him Barcelona with a six-year contract.

THE Royal Spanish Federation he attempted it for one of his young men. The teenager’s response was negative, despite the fact that she had not received a call from her country. He was waiting for the summons Argentine Football Federationfinally arrived in 2008, when Joseph Louis Brown drove the under 17 years old. At first, Icardi seemed to be budding among the European elite. confirmed in the farmhouse then he went to Sub 19 as a promise and slammed the door as if he didn’t want to wait any longer to launch into professional football: he traveled to Italy to join samplewho ended up buying the pass for 400,000 euros.

He got tired of scoring goals. He was promoted and continued to do so in Serie A. Before he turned 19, Marcello Trobbiani He called him up for the Sub 20, but the club didn’t let him go. Then he took his revenge and was the top scorer of the tournament The Alcudia and then Sabella’s call came. At that same point in the timeline there is a passage that has established itself in her biography beyond his goals. Partner of Maximilian Lopez At the Genoese club they made friends despite the age difference. In fact, they had met in Barcelona when the former River wore the number 11 of Barça and Icardi, just 12 years old, had gone up to ask him for an autograph.

Wanda Nara He stopped being López’s partner and became Icardi’s. A turning point that is a stigma. A love story interpreted by the betrayal between friends by a woman, who -from that perspective- remains in a sort of passive role in the middle of a handrail between two men.

“Icardi is a traitor… a traitor. You can’t go to a friend’s house for dinner and then marry his wife.”synthesized Diego Maradona In an interview. “He will be a great player, I’m not saying no. But what he did to Maxi López is a traitor and that comes at a price in football and in life.”Maradona added, this time with the moralistic finger – which he accused him many times – indicating an alleged offense, of a private nature, which has nothing to do with football.

And there is the stigma. Popularly his surname is conjugated as a verb, Dear, to depict the act of “taking” the couple away from a third party, as if it were possession, something that could be stolen. Someone icardia if the partner – or ex-partner – of a close person formalizes a bond. Pure machirulism or lack of sisterhood, depending on who is judging. But then the surname Icardi was not only on the lips of the Argentine coach or in the amount of puritanical news that enhanced that relationship with Nara. The powerful Inter wanted the Rosario who, like Messi, dreams of one day returning to his homeland to play for Newell’s.

This is how the Milanese club paid 13 million euros for his file. He was captain, he continued to score goals -124 in 219 games- and when his cycle was over he went to paris saint germain Of 60 million! of the common European currency. There he scored 38 goals in 92 games. He has never been able to replicate the potential of him in the few calls. The stigma? Perhaps, even if none of his companions has ever made public considerations like Maradona.

Answering the questions users ask Google is easy. Today Icardi wears the 99 at Galatasaray in Turkey, where he arrived after PSG coach Christophe Galtier dropped his thumb. He earns 562,500 euros a month -not counting advertising contracts-, has nine goals in 15 games and, yes, he was Wanda Nara’s partner again, who has never stopped being his agent and is already negotiating the next step for Rosario for the second semester of 2023.

It is difficult to predict his next years. The last chance of a World Cup will be in 2026 and by then he will be 34 years old. On the nearer horizon is a return to PSG after overcoming Galatasaray, recently knocked out of the Turkish Cup by Basaksehir. After that match, he criticized the referee for his performance – by the way he canceled a bit – and the local federation fined him 7,500 euros.

Perhaps 2024 will see him battling Galatasaray for entry into the group zone of the Champions League, a championship he is about to qualify for. Icardi has quickly won the hearts of fans and the club hopes to keep the Argentine striker for a long time. So much so that although PSG’s loan is without a purchase option, they hope to negotiate the entire file.

How much will they have to pay? “Icardi is now worth 250 million euros”, Wanda Nara rushed in 2018. The Parisian club, in principle, hopes to recover the 60 it gave to Inter and the Turkish would offer just over 10, given that in the middle 2024 is free. The only certainty is that in Istanbul nobody searches Google for their idol’s surname.