Father’s Day just passed and one Juventus player’s father is not pleased with his lack of a gift.
Bianconeri youngster Moise Kean’s dad says Juventus was supposed to pay him in tractors in addition to his son’s €700,000-per-year contract.
Kean, 17, became the first player born in this millennium to score in the Serie A back in November. It remains his only goal in three league appearances with the first team, though he has 13 goals with Italian youth squads.
Born in Italy to parents from Ivory Coast, Kean’s father, Biorou, is taking exception with the Italian giants’ alleged reneging on what he thought was a contractual obligation.
Additionally, Biorou Kean says Mino Raiola, the agent who represents players such as Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Paul Pogba and Gianluigi Donnarumma, is not actually his son’s agent. Juventus disagrees.
This could become an issue. Because Moise Kean is only 17, he must have parents sign off on any contracts. Biorou has threatened his son will leave as a free agent if pops doesn’t get his tractors.
Dear old dad said he owns land back in Ivory Coast that he dreams of cultivating with rice and corn. He said Juventus promised him tractors (plural), which would mean he would receive more farm equipment than his son supplied goals.
He’s not the first to request a tractor be put into his contract.
In 2005, Houston pitcher Roy Oswalt received a bulldozer for pitching the Astros into the World Series for the first time in franchise history.
12/19/05 The #Astros present Roy Oswalt with a bulldozer for winning the game that clinched the National League championship. pic.twitter.com/vGTMo72cIt
— Mike Acosta (@AstrosTalk) December 20, 2016
There are also two soccer clubs presumably named after tractors: Tractor Sazi FC based in Iran and DVSK Tractor in Latvia.
One imagines a meeting of the two would look something like this:
To be honest, it looks more exciting than Serie A.
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