FERMÍN ARRIVED AT LA MASIA AT THE AGE OF 13
They reveal the keys to the signing of Fermín López for Barça in 2016
Published:11/11/2023 - 18:34h
Updated:11/11/2023 - 18:34h
The consolidation of Fermín López in the first team has been one of the best news for FC Barcelona in a very complex start to the season. Carles Martínez, coach of Toulouse, detailed how Fermín's arrival at Barça was developed
Fermín López has been, beside Lamine Yamal, the feeling of the FC Barcelona in the beginning of the 2023/24. The mediocentro of 20 years returned to reinforce to the filial and, against all prognosis, won the confidence of Xavi Hernández. In this regard, Carles Martínez Novell, current technician of the French Toulouse, detailed in a talk in the program 'Your Diràs' of 'RAC1' how produced the signing of the of The Campillo in July of 2016, when hardly it had 13 years.
"In Andalucia always followed to Fermín of the Betis and Carlitos of the Seville. Altimira And Roura did me go to see it to Sportive City of the Betis. I called to Aureli and said him that we had to ficharlo. I said him that it was very small, but that if we did not do it in some years would call me and would say me that reason did not do it. It fichamos And incorporated to the childish To", detailed Martínez.
Like this it was the evolution of Fermín in The Masia
In this sense, the trainer of the Toulouse, explained the a lot that López had to work to strengthen his physicist during his six years in The Masia. "His history has been difficult. It has suffered a lot because it was very small. It marked differences, generated a lot by spark, because has a lot of character, but his strength sometimes did not leave him do better the things. It saw that it was talent and that it was question that arrived him the body", argued the Catalan technician.
Fermín gave the jump to the Juvenile To in the summer of 2021 and, a year later, happened to the staff of the Barça Atlètic, but the club preferred to yield him to the Linares by a season so that it won more shooting, fearing by a year of scarce leadership with the ones of Rafa Márquez. After adding 12 goals and 4 assistances in 37 parties in the First RFEF, the directive decided to recover him and Xavi did not doubt in carrying him to turns it of pre-season after seeing him in a pair of trainings. "It recovered the confidence and the physicist in Linares. It looks now as it plays", it added Martínez. The other is history. Renewed until 2028 and with a clause of 400 'kilos'.
