Dejan Kulusveski: "I had a hard time putting on my shoes"

Dejan Kulusevski, 20, had an incredible autumn and took Serie A by storm in Parma. On January 2, Atalanta, which he owned, sold him to the big club Juventus and after that the goal delivery ended.

Of the eight matches that followed before the corona break, he started only five and scored only one goal. Now he says that a groin injury was the cause of the deformity.

- Incredibly tough, really. I could not train, but I played matches on painkillers. Nobody knew about this. I did not score much points during these matches because I was maybe 30 percent healthy and had a hard time putting on my shoes before the match, he says and continues:

- It really became chaos. It felt like the body was laying down. I could not lift my legs and it hurt when I slept.

How nervous did you become during this time?

- If there is something that does not work in the body, you get nervous, because you have no answers. The help I received was not enough and it did not work. If you can not run, it will be difficult to play. You play in Serie A, but can not accelerate and then it is very difficult to be good, says Kulusevski.

After the corona break, a healthy Kulusevski shone again and scored five goals and two assists in 13 games.

- There was a lot of talk that I had stopped playing when I had signed for Juventus. I wonder what they are saying now, after the corona, he says.

See a longer report with Dejan Kulusevski tomorrow Sunday and in Sportspegeln 19.00.