When he returned to Trigoria in June, Mario Hermoso seemed destined to remain only temporarily. <\/p>\n
Coming off a loan spell at Bayer Leverkusen, with just 13 appearances this season and four months missed due to a shoulder injury, the Spaniard had been considered surplus to requirements and a sure departure. <\/p>\n
Instead, he quietly changed his story, as reported in Corriere della Sera. <\/p>\n
He approached the training camp with humility, never missing a training session, with the seriousness of someone who knows high-level football and refuses to give up. <\/p>\n
Gasperini observed him closely, appreciating his attitude above all else, even more than his technical ability. <\/p>\n
At the first opportunity, against Bologna, the coach chose him: starting center-right, in an unnatural role, preferring him to the young Ghilardi. <\/p>\n
Hermoso repaid this trust with a mature performance: precise in his passes (36 completed out of 39), clean in his tackles, and capable of leading the build-up from the back. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a serious player, accustomed to playing on the big stage,\u201d Gasperini explained. <\/p>\n
Today, applauded by the same fans who booed him a year ago, Hermoso appears reborn: no longer a redundant player, but a valuable asset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When he returned to Trigoria in June, Mario Hermoso seemed destined to remain only temporarily. Coming off a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-94337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}