At the beginning of the past campaign, Ansu Fati arrived to the international panorama like an authentic lightning. It does some months, few knew to this born forward in Guinea Bissau does just 18 years but, to day of today, all the planet football speaks of him like one of the futures cracks world-wide. The FC Barcelona even saw forced to armour him with a new agreement with a clause 'anti-sheiks'.
With alone 16 years and taking advantage of a plague of injuries in the first team of the FC Barcelona, arrived his debut in First Division. A year later, already is an important piece of the FC Barcelona of Ronald Koeman, as well as international absolute with the Spanish selection. All this cost him to be one of the youngsters nominated to the Golden Boy, the award that rewards to the player sub-21 with more future.
The past year, this prize was for Joao Félix, that has not had a first simple season in the Athletic of Madrid. In this 2020, Ansu Fati splits like one of the favourites beside other cracks of the size of Alphonse Davies (Bayern Munich), Ferrán Torres (Manchester City), Jadon Sancho and Erling-Braut Haaland (Borussia Dortmund), or Vinicius Junior (Real Madrid).
This month of October knew the list of the 20 finalists of the Golden Boy, remaining Ansu Fati between them and showing very ilusionado in front of the possibility to win. "I am very thrilled. At the end, be nominated to a so important prize is something that thrills us to all. But it is necessary to follow working each day so that sucedan beautiful things like this", said in an interview to 'TuttoSport'.
Ansu Fati Is conscious of the complicated that it will be to carry the prize by the hard competition. "It suffices with reading the list of the twenty finalists to darse immediately that all the players nominated are very good. All had a big championship with his clubs and his respective national selections. All are winning by the simple fact to be in the final list", sentenced.
Sergiño Dest, also in the list
Ansu Fati Is not the only player of the FC Barcelona in the list of the Golden Boy, but also it is it Sergiño Dest. The international American did a big season in the rows of the Ajax and the Barcelona club decided to bet by his signing, to what he has answered with good ways in his starts in the Camp Nou. The presence of both like applicants to the prize shows that the club has players of a lot of future by in front.