2023-09-21 13:49:56
Alejandro Balde has joined the squad of Araujo, Koundé, Pedri, Gavi, Raphinha, Ferran and Ansu Fati. And also Lamine Yamal, although the signing of his renewal is not yet official. They are the Barça footballers who have a termination clause of one billion. A clause as symbolic of the value that the club gives them as it is useless and useless. Unless the government of Saudi Arabia continues bombing the football planet by doubling its million-dollar investments in the future.
With Balde’s renewal agreement announced on Wednesday, Barça wanted to elevate the signing of the new contract that binds the player to the category of event. left back with the Barcelona team until 2028. An extension that has only been given to Marc André ter Stegen, the vice-captain. Fact that, in this case, does describe the value that the young player has for the coaching staff. Xavi believes he has found a reliable element for a few years. Like Jordi Alba, his predecessor, he appropriated the lane for a decade and a half.
Balde came out onto the Tito Vilanova field, signed the pages with the president, also signed the commemorative canvas and posed with the shirt (without the 3, with the 2028) on the stage reserved for new signings and some renewals. Like this, the one of the “hero of La Verneda”, according to Joan Laporta, to whom “someone from your neighborhood had told” about the popularity of the footballer, who last year established himself in the elite, displacing Jordi Alba at Barça and being called up to the Qatar World Cup with Spain. In football circles they nickname Balde, son of Saliu Balde, Bisauguinean father, and Gledys Martínez, Dominican motheras The plane due to physical power and speed in their offensive bursts.
Balde is 19 years old, of which 13 have been spent playing for Barça. He briefly wore the Espanyol shirt before. And before that, Sant Gabriel, the most popular football school in the neighborhood. He has gone through, due to age, all the steps of grassroots football. All the fields of Sant Joan Despí. Even the main one: the Tito Vilanova that they were stepping on and that the entire Balde Martínez family and all of the young man’s advisors were stepping on, with his agent Jorge Mendes at the head and several members of the team. “I want to personify my gratitude to José Ramón Alesanco [coordinador del fútbol base] on behalf of all the people who work in youth football,” Laporta stressed when he expanded the distribution of congratulations.
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The president wanted to highlight the predisposition of Alejandro Balde Martínez (Barcelona, October 18, 2003) to participate in the activities of the Foundation Marta Segú, the head of the organization, was present at the sports city. “This says a lot about your way of being and your values,” highlighted the president, who mentioned the presence of the soccer player’s grandmother, arriving from the Dominican Republic to enjoy the event with the whole family.
Balde spoke of the long road he had traveled since he dreamed of reaching the Barça first team, of “the hours and the effort and the sacrifices made”, which he considers well spent, of course. “I hope to continue improving, I have many things to learn,” he explained, as a personal goal that he has set for himself. “I’m 19 years old and when the contract ends I’ll be 24,” he said. And it can still continue to improve.
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