When Isaac Cuenca was ascendio to the filial of the FC Barcelona in the summer of 2011, the fans and the Catalan press auguraban the beginning of a big career for another of the 'jewels' of The Masia. It was the golden age of the Barça of Pep Guardiola and the extreme did not take in going in in dynamics with the first team. In the 2011/12 contested 30 parties in which it added 4 goals and 12 assistances, but in the following season was losing leadership and left yielded to the Ajax in January of 2013.
A decade afterwards, with 32 years, the one of Reus has decided to hang the booties after suffering multiple relapses in his injuries in the right knee that prevented him play in the last two years. In an interview with 'RAC1', the canterano culé reviewed his stage in the Barça and explained how the injuries precipitated his goodbye to the fields, although it sees with optimism his future in the benches like trainer.
Cuenca, satisfied with his career in spite of the injuries
In spite of his bad fortune with the injuries, Isaac does a positive balance of his career, mainly of his stage in the Barça. "I know what have happened and what have worked. All the world had some expectations of me to play in the Barça of Guardiola, but arrived the first operation and twisted ", commented the ex Catalan footballer. In this sense, valued the learnt in the first team culé.
"Pep Guardiola and Tito Vilanova helped me a lot. They did me learn movements that have used during the course of my career. I am very happy to having shared changing room with Pep. The same without him it would not have been able to debut in the Barça", said Cuenca. On his decision to withdraw so prompt, based his goodbye in the impossibility to play.
"I carry six operations of knee, all of the same. I tried to do an optimum recovery to go back to the terrains of game, but the sixth operation was very difficult, suffered a lot and said suffices", sentenced the one of Reus. His útlimo team was the Vegalta Sendai of Japan, where only played 15 parties between January of 2020 and April of 2021.
The council of Isaac Cuenca for the extremes of the Barça
On the actuality of the Barça and of the Spanish football, Isaac Cuenca considers that "the extremes have to risk, so much if they fail as if no. The figure of the extreme has lost leadership and now centre in controlling and happen. The football needs a bit more than magic", said the canterano blaugrana. In this regard, it spoke on Lamine Yamal, to the one who considers like "a very good youngster".
"I the only that can say him is that it do case to the trainers and to the people that surrounds him. I am convinced that it will be key in the Barça", added on the player of 16 years. Regarding the actuality culé, Cuenca thinks that the key goes through "to try that the new players and the more youngsters take confidence", although it shows satisfied by the current moment of the ones of Xavi Hernández.