The fall of Gai Assulin: From being Barça's 'new Messi' to the Italian Serie D

No a lot of players can coexist with the pressure to be compared with one of the best of the world and of the history. Infinity of young footballers carry years lidiando with the tension to be in the same sentence that Leo Messi. The '10' carries more than a decade being the best in the his and since have gone out infinity of "new Messis" in Spain and all over the world.

One of the footballers to which arrived to compare very directly with the rosarino was to Gai Assulin, ex canterano of the FC Barcelona. The Israeli was in his moment the greater promise of the quarry of the group barcelonista and expected that it triumphed in the first team. After showing his talent in the Masia, his physicist, his quality and his style of game caused that it spoke of him like "the new Messi" or Leo of Israel".

With this type of comparisons, expected big things of the habilidoso extreme, but his career has been in the Antipodes to be able to arrive to the expectations that generated in his day. The one of Nahariya debuted with the greater and Pep Guardiola​ gave him an opportunity, but an important injury and the pressure that supposed that it compared him with the best, finish commanding to the fret his options to triumph in the Camp Nou.

After seeing that in the Barça did not go to have the opportunities that wished, the impatient Gai Assulin, with so alone 19 years, hartó and went to the Manchester City. The Israeli thought that in the Etihad went to have more options, but in any moment gave him the alternative. Since, with so alone 20 years, chained cessions and traspasos to teams of Spain, Israel or Romania, but in any has triumphed.

Assulin, of the Barça to the fourth Division

In the Spanish country, the extreme has played in the Racing of Santander, in Hercules, in the Mallorca or more recently, in the Sabadell, where was in 2018. After going without penalty neither glory of all the clubs, now, in 2021, and with already 29 years, Gai has gone back to be news because it has fichado by the Cream, group of the modest Series D Italian. It treats of the fourth division in Italy, by what is evident that the career of the of Israel no longer gives more than himself.

It is painful to see like a player that in his moment was one of the greater promises of the world and of the Barcelona, has happened more than ten years afterwards to be a footballer of fourth Division. The Israeli had talent to having arrived far, but no all the players can bear the pressure that supposes to play in the elite. In his case, the already ex Barcelona jewel has finished turning into a 'toy broken', as so many others in the world of the football.