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Gavi Goes on doing history! It turned into the youngest headline of the Barça in 80 years
Published:24/10/2021 - 17:20h
Updated:24/10/2021 - 17:20h
With 17 years and 80 days, Ronald Koeman has chosen to Pablo Páez Gavira, as it did the past year with Pedri González in front of the Real Madrid before reaching the 18 years
Pablo Páez Gavira 'Gavi' no for to make history. The young midfield player, chosen by Ronald Koeman to confront his first Classical in front of the Real Madrid, turned into the youngest headline of the FC Barcelona in the history of the Classical in the last 80 years, surpassing even to Ansu Fati, the one who also split like titling.
With 17 years and 80 days, Gavi is the sixth younger headline in the history of the Classical, only is surpassed by of Alfonso Albéniz (1902), Arming Giralt (1902), René Petit (1916), José Bayo (1936) and Vicente Martínez (1941). Of this way detailed it Alexis Martín Tamayo, better known as 'Mister Chip', in Twitter.
With the titularity of the young sevillano, Koeman shows once again that it does not fear to range to youngsters in front of the Real Madrid. The past campaign followed suit when including in the training title to
Pedri González, that still had 17 years, and Ansu, that had 18.
Records beaten
It is important to highlight that Gavi comes to having beaten the record of precocity like international absolute with the Spanish selection, with 17 years and 62 days in the semifinal of the Nations League in front of Italy with the confidence of Luis Enrique. Today it went back to stamp his name in the books of history in the Camp Nou, and at all less than in the stage of a Classical.
Like this then , Gavi follows winning an important place in the international plane. The recognition that has won , thanks to the confidence of Koeman, have cost him to live what up to now has attained: turn into an indisputable for Luis Enrique in the Nations League and for the Barcelona of Koeman in the Classical.