2023-10-07 14:31:58
He plays for Barça Atlètic, but belongs to Girona. He is the number nine who has convinced Rafa Márquez with extraordinary numbers in the reserve team: six games, four goals and one assist. Now, this young man born in Sant Cugat del Valles has become the big news on the list of 20 called up that Xavi Hernández has provided for the trip to Granada, where this Sunday he must defend his pursuit of Madrid. His name is Pau Víctor and he takes advantage of Lewandowski’s injury to sneak into the first team, just like the youth Marc Guiu (17 years)
Pau Víctor is 21 years old (he will turn 22 on November 21) and his career has always involved Catalan clubs. First at Junior de Sant Cugat (I was 6 years old), then at Sabadell (he spent three seasons, two as a cadet and the first year as a youth player) until Girona detected quality in that young man who shone with the harlequinade shirt.
He played as a forward and also as a winger. He took him to the youth team (2018), where he began to complete the path of promotion to Montilivi. But just two years later, the attacker was already making his debut with Girona’s first team in the Second Division.
He debuted with the Girona first team
Pau Víctor alternates between the reserve team and the team then led by Francisco, which makes his debut against Alcorcón. He was 18 years old then. The forward played eight League games and three Copa del Rey games in those two seasons: one in 19-20 and seven in the following season. And after four seasons at Girona, with promotion already consolidated to First Division, the forward understands that the best thing for him is to have minutes. Where? At Sabadell, the club he left.
He completed a season in the Nova Creu Alta, 22-23, a really good season in the First RFEF, with 36 games, seven goals and six assists, attracting the attention of Márquez, the coach of the Barça reserve team, who demanded his loan. And he gets it in an operation totally independent of the signing of Oriol Romeu
Before releasing him on the way to the Estadi Johan Criyff, Girona renews him beforehand until 2025. It also has nothing to do with the Pablo Torre and Eric García, both on loan to the Montilivi club. Márquez needed a scorer and thought of Pau Víctor.
Marc Guiu, 17, from Juvenil A, also goes to Granada
Necessity has led Xavi to the same thought, forced to look down to find offensive resources that he has lost above. “It’s not that we have a plague of injuries,” said the coach. “But the squad is rather short than long and then it seems like it is a plague,” he confessed. He has 19 first team players. Now there are 15 because Pedri, Frenkie de Jong, Raphinha and Lewandowski are in the infirmary. “For That’s why we took forwards Pau Víctor and Marc Guiu,” added the coach.
Pau Víctor (21 years old), the ninth player of Barça Atlètic, and Marc Guiu (17), the batter of Juvenil A, who has been international in all the lower categories of the Spanish team, travel to Granada because Xavi has run out of options at the top. He only has three forwards to visit Nuevo Los Cármenes: Lamine Yamal, Ferran Torres and João Félix.
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Marc Guiu, born in Granollers, He scored in the Barça youth team’s victory in Porto this past week (0-2). And he is an atypical striker at La Masia, almost 1.90 m tall, gifted with an excellent aerial game. He already made his appearance with the first team in the friendly farewell to Iniesta in Tokyo last summer and has even made his debut with Rafa Márquez’s reserve team.
Xavi, meanwhile, even considered the option of calling up Marc Cassadó, a midfielder who fits perfectly into his plans. Although, in the end, he decided to leave him in the reserve team because Márquez is not short on pieces either.
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