This kid is good.
Really good.
It should normally take someone so young, given his chance at being a starter for a club as huge as Juventus, where the pressure is real, some time to adjust and find his feet. But Dybala threw that script straight out the window and has miraculously become Juventus's most valuable player.
Whether you wants goals, dribbles, passes, free-kicks; this kid has it all. He has yet to have a bad game, and is a threat all over the pitch. Just watching what he's doing and how he is linking up with Morata, Pogba and others is great to watch. We are seeing the next superstar unfold before our very eyes and that is an exciting thing for us football fans as the future looks good if Dybala keeps going at the rate he is.
The question must now turn to Argentina, and with Dybala making waves and people waking up to his talents, the obvious name that has to come is the Lionel man himself. I'm not going to draw any comparisons because that would be insulting to Messi who has had so many more years than Dybala whose career is only just starting properly. But we can still talk about Argentina and the future of their national team when Messi eventually will hang up those boots, which could be a lot sooner if he keeps getting spat on at airports.
I've always seent the issue that Messi has had in Argentina is that they don't play like Barcelona. The system is completely different, and he finds it hard to readjust his game. As amazing as Messi is, and he is pretty off the charts, his football is very specific and requires others to make use of the one-twos that he likes to play in order to create space for himself. Dybala comes across in the same way as Tevez, as in he would do what he does in any system and any team. He doesn't have a specific type of play and is not reliant on teammates. The fact that he had a good season on loan at Parma shows that he can succeed in different environments.
You look at Pastore also and other young Argentines coming through, the country has all the talent in the world to win the trophy that matters. But always with these kinds of situations, you can have all the quality in the world, but you need that one player to really kickstart the team. Without Zidane, that French team had players who would easily stroll into any club team in the world. But when Zizou was part of them, it made them that great team that could really win something.
Dybala could be that spark they've been missing in these tight games. You look back at the World Cup and Copa final, maybe Dybala's explosive way of playing, would have created a situation leading to the winning goal. Argentina looked too cagey and afraid to really go for it. Perhaps a young player without fear but energy and youthful exuberance would have given them that extra kick. It's perhaps what Götze had that made Germany win.
The carefree fibre of youth.
There may never be another player in Argentina like Messi. But then how many people in Argentina thought they would produce someone even close to the level of Maradona? Maybe Dybala won't break the kind of records that Messi has managed to achieve for Barcelona. But maybe he will end up succeeding for Argentina where Messi failed.
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