Ansu Fati: A star is born

BARCELONA – Ansu Fati. Remember his name. After a summer, and what is missing, talking, speculating, sighing and arguing for (The non-signing of Neymar and the inexplicable assignment of Dembélé) Neymar Camp Nou surrendered to the magic of a kid who has not yet turned 17 years, who became the second (Ansu Fati, second youngest to be a starter with Barcelona) youngest holder in Barcelona's league history and who only needed seven minutes, seven, to erase Ney from the map and become the New sensation of Barcelona.

An hour needed, until Valverde gave entrance to Luis Suarez instead, to earn not respect, but the admiration of a fan who did not hesitate to surrender to his devilish electricity, his sudden impact, his goal and assistance, his hat, his vertigo, his daring and his blow on the table. He hasn't turned 17 but it already smells like a star. The future, is sentenced, is yours.

The alarm by the plague of injuries that has attacked especially to the front has ended up being a blessing for a club in need of recovering the illusion and eager to see one of his boys exploding without dissimulation in the first team. This paper was reserved for Riqui Puig … But the overpopulation of midfielders keeps him waiting, with the door as closed as it is wide open, it has been left for Ansu Fati, as benefited by Messi and Suárez's loneliness as by the Dembélé's bad head.

And, also, for the courage of a Ernesto Valverde often accused of his lack of confidence in young people and deserving of all the credit with his boldness in staging a kid who has not even debuted in the subsidiary, after a summer in which he had a foot outside Barça, troubled as was his father for the offers that multiplied at home.

The coach gave him a while against Betis, which was his debut, on a comfortable afternoon. A simple nod to the gallery? It was shown that not a week later, when he came to him as a savior in Pamplona and responded with an excellent goal. Finally, Rafinha marched and recovered, but not one hundred percent Luis Suarez, the final moment arrived. Headline. And by the big door he took advantage of it.

Valverde, who decided not to risk entry with the Uruguayan, could well have placed up Sergi Roberto or populate the center of the field with Rakitic or Vidal… But he solved keeping the three forward system immovable and gave Ansu that support. A signal to destiny. "Go out and show yourself," the coach told the youngster. Wow if he did …

Ansu Fati Remember the name of a boy who asks for the ball as if there were no tomorrow, which shows a huge hunger and that took seven minutes to make the biggest hatching that has been remembered at the Camp Nou since September 2007, three weeks after turning 17, Bojan Krkic appeared by grace of Frank Rijkaard.

In times of urgency, of unusual rapidity in making definitive analyzes, the young man of Guinean origin already came to be considered as the true heir of Messi, who did not hesitate to sponsor him directly, it is understood that aware of knowing that there is Barça to a rough diamond with a lot to say.

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He needed two minutes to open the scoring by finishing off first, excellent, a measured center of De Jong. Just five more minutes to make a huge play by the left wing, reach the bottom line and return the assistance to the Dutch.

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From there the night was already, already was, his. Two poisoned shots, a possible penalty, a magnificent hat in a rival area … Bold and hungry, Ansu exploded in style. And he left a difficult question in the environment: What will Valverde do with him from this Saturday?

¿Neymar? Ansu Fati, thanks.