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Linda Caicedo in a match with her team

LAPORTA WANTS TO SIGN HIM NOW

Barça Femení seeks to close the signing of Linda Caicedo

Published:16/01/2023 - 22:51h

Updated:16/01/2023 - 22:51h

FC Barcelona Femení has ​​activated the 'Linda Caicedo operation'. Joan Laporta does not want to let the Colombian player escape and wants to close his signing as soon as possible as the main reinforcement for 2023/24

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Appointed like the best player of the world in 2022 by the International Federation of History and Statistical of Football (IFFHS, by his acronyms in English), Linda Caicedo is one of the 'jewels' of the feminine football that the main European clubs will try to carry to the world-wide elite this year. The forward will fulfil 18 years the next 22 February and Joan Lapota does not want to lose time to carry him to the FC Barcelona Femení like reinforcement crashes for the 2023/24.

"It does time that likes us Linda Caicedo, if I have to be you sincere, perhaps does three years, she is a very young player, but that besides has stood out and is very good. We, in our department of scouting, yes that we have it in our aim", admitted the president culé in November happened during an event in Bogota. Free to negotiate with any club, the one of Cali comes of a 2022 spectacular with his selection.

Linda shined in the last Glass America and in the world-wide Sub-17 and Sub-20, deploying his skill for gambetear, assist and define. From his go through the Sportive Cali, Caicedo showed all his potential and, the past year, even was in the final list of the Globe Soccer Awards beside the star of the Barça, Alexia Putellas, the one who hoarded the main individual prizes after his big season with the ones of Jonatan Giráldez.

In this sense, Laporta has activated personally the operation for ficharle conversing with the surroundings of the player. Although the priority of the club in this moment are the renewals, the mandator does not want to waste the opportunity of fichar to the forward to 'cost zero' just when it expects finish to explode to international level. For the moment, the one of Valley of the Cauca adds 5 goals in 10 parties in world-wide with Colombia.

The Barça, the best option for Linda

"I said him afterwards of the World-wide in India (the Sub-17, where the 'cafeteras' fell in the final in front of Spain) that was calm that decided she with his family and that ojalá have a very good representative to know to where goes to go. The truth is a very intelligent player, plumbed, serious, humble, a positive leader inside and out of the field, with some conditions tremendas", explained Carlos Paniagua, trainer of the selection Colombia. In this way, the Barça will go to by the one who considers like the player with better projection in the planet in this moment.