At 16, 11 months and 14 days, Ansu Fati has become the second youngest footballer to wear the shirt of the U21 team. The Barcelona striker has premiered in Pogdorica, where Spain resolved a convincing victory against Montenegro (0-2) in the third qualifying round for Euro 20pa.
The staging of the player of Guinean origin was made wait 78 minutes, until Luis de la Fuente ordered the change of Marc Cucurella, author of 0-2. In that little quarter of an hour, Fati approached the goal from the left profile and had a great opportunity that could not culminate before Filip Djukic.
The opportunity came in minute 93, after a great ride on the right of Pol Lozano, who yielded to the heart of the area for Gonzalo Villar. The steering wheel of Elche yielded to Fati, who broke a defender, although his left foot hit the Montenegrin goalkeeper's foot.
The precocity record in the U21 team went back to June 5, 2007, when Bojan Krkic, under Iñaki Sáez, premiered with 25 minutes in Georgia (0-1).
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