Halilovic assures that at Barça he believed more than Iniesta and Xavi

The footballer of 27 years Alen Halilovic reviewed his path in a talk with the English newspaper 'The Athletic'. The Croat arrived to the FC Barcelona in the summer of 2014 with hardly 17 years like one of the 'perlas' of the Balkan football. However, hardly it played 29 parties with the filial in his season debut (added 4 goals and 1 assistance). From his exit like yielded in 2015 to the Sporting of Gijón, the career of the of Dubrovnik was in hammered.

Still like this, the mediapunta saves good memories of his go through Catalonia. "The two first years were perfect in the Barça, but expected to have an opportunity in the first team in the third; it was then when I darse that Luis Enrique did not want there", said Halilovic. At the end, the Barça opted for selling him to the Hamburg by 5 million euros in the summer of 2016, recovering the mount that it cost his traspaso pertinent of the Dinamo Zagreb two years before.

Halilovic desvela The why of his failure in the Barça

In this sense, the player of 27 years remembered how produced his signing by the Barça. "It believed in me same, but they also had a plan for me. That was the error that committed: I did not follow the plan. The Tottenham wanted to buy me, but the Barcelona was of my style. It treated of possession and of the balloon in the feet. The first year went to play in the Barça B, afterwards would yield me to LaLiga and to the third year decided", remembered the mediapunta.

However, Halilovic did not want to expect by his opportunity in the first team culé, since it considered that, after his first season in the filial, was smart to give the jump to the elite. "When you are young think that you do not have time and I had to be by in front of Iniesta and Xavi. Looking now, only needed to be patient. It trains and wait. It will come", reflexionó the Croat. In spite of his step frustrated by Can Barça, Alen ensured to feel happy to having been able to "learn a lot and play with Messi, that was my idol".

After fichar by the Hamburg, the one of Dubrovnik arrived free to the AC Milan in 2018. A semester for the forget in Italy cost him a cession to the Standard Lieja and, later, to the Heerenven, without greater success. The Milan left him free in 2020 and afterwards managed without penalty neither glory by Birmingham and Reading in the second English division. In 2022 it returned to his country with the HNK Rijeka, where neither attained to settle. The summer happen fichó by Fortuna Sittard Dutch, where this great season 3 goals and 2 assistances in 19 parties (1.579 minutes).