The Blaugrana winger will meet again this Tuesday with Club Atlético Osasuna, the team for which he scored his first goal in the elite
The Spanish-Bisauguinean soccer player will never forget that afternoon at the end of August 2019 with which he confirmed that he had come to stay
if last weekend Ansu Fati he reunited with the team against which he made his debut with the FC Barcelona first team, Real Betis, and celebrated with the play that closed the culé rout (4-0), this Tuesday he will with his first victim in the elite, Club Atlético Osasuna. Days of strong emotions for the youth player, who he will never forget that afternoon at the end of August 2019 in which he scored his first goal with the Blaugrana shirt and gave the first signs of his devouring goal-scoring instinct.
12 minutes had been enough for the Spanish-Bisa-Guinean winger to show, on the second day of the 2019/20 League, in Betis’s visit to the Camp Nou (5-2), that he was a special footballer. Ernesto Valverde had given him the opportunity to debut and he had responded wonderfully. A week later, at El Sadar, Barça traveled to Pamplona with the aim of assaulting Osasuna. Ansu was a substitute, but the bad first half of the Barcelona team (1-0 in favor of the locals at half-time) invited the ‘Txingurri’ to once again trust the baby-faced teenager who was surprising them so much in training.
With the ’31’ on the back, the jewel of La Masia replaced Nélson Semedo before the referee Juan Martínez Munuera signaled the start of the restart. Ansu only took six minutes in thank Valverde for his confidence and tie the game with a unappealable big head which made him, at 16 years and 304 days, the youngest player in the history of Barça to score a goal in the League. The match did not end with a win for the visitors (2-2), but the ‘confirmation’ of the winger generated extreme enthusiasm in the club and in the fans.
Uncertain future
A lot has changed since then. Ansu Fati’s career has been a roller coaster of emotions. He shone in his first year, frustration accompanied him for the next two years due to injuries and, this season, the fierce competitiveness in attack has relegated him to the background. In a very short time he has gone from inheriting Leo Messi’s ’10’ to being part of the culé wardrobe and even having options to change scenery next summer. In a very difficult financial context, the Hispanic-Bisa-Guinean could become one of the ‘levers’ of sports management to undertake the desired incorporations.
Ansu, for the moment, only thinks about the ball. He already showed against Betis that, for him, the final stretch of the season is very important to recover the best version of him. In the event that Xavi Hernández grants him minutes against Osasuna, his first victim, he will try to take advantage of them as much as that second half in El Sadar than the one he confirmed that had come to stay.