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Yusuf Demir In his debut with the Barça / Image: Twitter Official FCB

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In Austria surprise with the role of Yusuf Demir in the Barcelona

Published:10/08/2021 - 00:23h

Updated:1/09/2021 - 10:53h

The midfield player of 18 years has been one of the surprises that could see in the pre-season of the Barcelona. Now, they have grown the expectations on him in his country of origin

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The Austrian midfield player of the Barça B, Yusuf Demir, has caused a big surprise by his skill in spite of that only it has a month in the club, but also in Austria where begin to dream with seeing play regularly to the Barcelona youngster and that it is the second Austrian of the history that has gone through the Barça after Hansi Krankl.

With four titularities in five friendly of pre-season that has contested the first team of the Barcelona, the youngster of 18 years yielded by the Rapid of Vienna although originally to play in the filial, has filled of a lot of expectations to his connacionales that has real possibilities to debut next Sunday in the Camp Nou in front of the Real Sociedad and which would be the first party of the next season of LaLiga.

In the media of the country even have ironizado by the exit of Messi and the big football that has showed the youngster. "Messi probably has him fear to Yusuf Demir, therefore it escaped ", suggested.

Up to now, in all the parties in which Demir has been to title the Barcelona has won them. It went it in the appointment with the Nàstic, the Girona, the Stuttgart and the Juventus, with the exception of the Salzburgo and that it was the only defeat that suffered the Barcelona. It is not odd, therefore, that the comments with regard to the weight and importance that the young midfield player of Turkish origin could have in the team of Koeman.

"The vienés of 18 years also was in the eleven initial in the last proof against the Juventus and the Barcelona begins the league the weekend", wrote in the half German Kurier. In front of 2.924 viewers in the Estadi Johan Cruyff, the vienés appeared to alone three minutes to give him the goal to Memphis Depay.

The course Leo Messi of the Barça has been sight like a door so that Demir, to the one who have called "the Messi Austrian", can have a place with the ones of Koeman. "Yusuf Practised repeatedly his tricks of the world-wide star studied in video in Hütteldorf will be good the exit of Leo because it deletes an obstacle sobrehumano on the way to the professional team?", they asked in the Austrian newspaper Die Presse.

The referred half, concluded that "Yusuf Demir is winning value". "It will anger the Rapid in the summer of 2022 winning 'only' ten million euros with his best talent? Yusuf Demir Is a footballer excepcionalmente talentoso", aimed remembering that the cession between the Rapid and the Barça fixed in 10 million euros.

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Kronen Zeitung, another half German, did not overlook the victory of the Barcelona in front of the Juventus led by Cristiano Ronaldo. "The young star of Austria defeated to Cristiano Ronaldo. (…) The youngster of 18 years was again the eleven Barcelona headline".

There is not doubt that Demir has taken out all the benefit of the minutes that has given him Koeman. "Demir Is a talent and it is necessary to look for him his ideal position. In front of the Juve did a good party in the midfield. It is one of the youngsters that are important for us", concluded in Kronen Zeitung.

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