2023-10-22 23:55:36
He only needed 33 seconds dressed in the first team shirt to score. Marc Guiu (January 4, 2006) is only 17 years old, but the difference was not noticeable when he had to do the same thing that he is used to doing with the lower divisions of Barcelona and the national team. He is a real center forward and he showed it on the first ball he touched. He controlled with his left and scored with his right. Two touches, no more needed.
«A kid from the house who makes a difference. “Happy for him,” Xavi acknowledged after the game. The Barça coach confessed in Dazn the reasons that had led him to trust Guiu. «He has a goal, he has spark, I like him and I have no problem watching at home, quite the opposite. The way we are we have to look at home and I think we have talent, we just have to give them confidence like they gave me when I was 17 or 18 years old. When we see that a kid is ready, he goes to the field,” added the Barcelona coach.
That this player born in Granollers has a goal is demonstrated by the numbers. He has scored five goals in five games with the Barcelona youth team this season and with the under 17 team, in which Julen Guerrero made his debut, he has scored 8 goals in 12 games. A selection that he has also shared with Lamine Yamal.
But, in addition to the goals, he has more things for Xavi to have trusted in him as he did with Lamine Yamal. A trait that he shares with several of the young footballers who flood the Barça squad. «It surprises me that they are not scared. I see them with desire, they look at me with the feeling of “put me on” and that desire. I see that self-confidence in Gavi, Balde, Fermín and many. There is a very good generation that we have to take advantage of,” adds Xavi. «The look is not one of fright but of “put me now, mister, I’m ready,” he assures.
Guiu agrees with his coach, still not digesting the moment he had just experienced. «I think we are all prepared, we are doing a very good job down and when we go up, [vamos] with everything,” explained the youth player in Dazn. “We are all eager to take advantage of these moments of difficulty for the club,” he added.
Marc told what Xavi told him when he entered the field. “They tell me to go out with everything to press and that I’m sure I’ll have some,” he said. He had it and scored it the first time. “Almost every night I dream about this,” he confessed.
The youth player acknowledged that he had not yet had time to look at his cell phone, but he remembered the goal play with complete clarity: «I saw that Joao controlled very alone and that there was a lot of space behind the center backs. I raise my head, I see Unai Simón leaving and he is already there. That easy. “It was a very quick action that I barely had time to think about,” he added.
When the game ended his teammates went to congratulate him. First the youth players, then the rest. “They told me that congratulations, that I wouldn’t sleep tonight, but to enjoy it.” And he does this with the help of his teammates, who have made it easier for him to integrate into the first team. First the young people, “Yamal, Fermín, who are already here”, but also the veterans. “Araujo above all,” recognizes the new idol of Barcelona fans.
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