Although world football has never lacked genius, Anzu Fati is now on a path with few precedents.
Fati, 17, has made too many people feel his difference.
At the age of 6, Fati was received by his father from Guinea-Bissau to Seville, Spain.
There his football talents were revealed, and the major local clubs in Spain threw olive branches to him.
As a former professional player, Fati's father talked with the heads of the teams, and Fati, who was only 8 years old, was taken to Pisjuan (the home of the La Liga Sevilla club).
Three years are fleeting, and Fati, who is less than 10 years old, heads to the next stop in his life, which is also the place that changed his destiny-Barcelona. He joined the world-famous La Masia Youth Academy.
We will now praise this football palace in beautiful terms, because in the past there have been football superstars such as Messi, Xavi and Iniesta.
Perhaps soon, Anzu Fati's name will also be listed.
Although he is only 17 years old now.
Fati scored the 9000th goal in team history for Barcelona.
In the eyes of others, the age of 17 is still indispensable, but Fati has scored goals in the Spanish national team shirt, and he will celebrate his 18th birthday at the end of next month.
Following the creation of the youngest goals scored in La Liga and the Champions League, Fati became the youngest national team goal scorer in Spanish history this morning.
This record has been maintained by Erazkin, who was born in 1906, 97 years older than Fati, and he was only 18 when he scored his first Spanish goal in 1925.
In other words, the record Fati broke has been maintained for 95 years.
Putting the time back on August 30, 2019, in the second half of Barcelona's away game against Osasuna, the red and blue fans saw a strange and young face on the sidelines.
The 16-year-old, standing beside Griezmann, became the second youngest player to represent Barcelona in La Liga.
Anzu Fati played for the Spanish national team.
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Only 6 minutes later, Fati scored his first goal in La Liga, which allowed him to surpass Messi and become the youngest player ever to score in La Liga in the history of Barcelona.
Before this day, few people in the world knew his name-even if you were a Barcelona fan.
With the advent of more surprises, this young man who turned out to be the world's attention.
Capable of changing directions, capable of cutting inward, and skillful at his feet, Fati has some of Messi's original style.
He is like a calm general on the court, showing maturity and indifference that does not match his age. His dribbling has a relaxation that far exceeds that of his peers-the kind of relaxation of a genius who has never suffered setbacks.
La Liga faced Leganes, Fati responded with a low shot and scored.
Although standing by Messi, Suarez, Griezmann and other world-famous superstars for a long time, no one felt that Fati was out of place.
If it hadn't been for that young face still carrying the unique innocence of a child, it would be hard for anyone to believe that he was only a high school student.
Overnight, Barcelona prepared non-stop contract renewal for this rising star. The Spanish Football Association was not to be outdone, and immediately began to prepare the necessary documents to recruit Fati so that he could fight for the Spanish team in the future.
Now that they got what they wanted, Fati finally put on the robe of the matador legion, and he got a chance in Enrique's hands.
According to Fati’s trajectory, the Spanish team may not have to worry about the striker in the next ten years, and stars such as Raul, Villa and Torres may all be surpassed by him one by one.
On June 17, 2020, the 29th round of the 2019-2020 season La Liga: Barcelona beat Leganes 2-0, Fati (left) debut.
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If all goes well, he will become the mainstay of the 2010 World Cup champions on the road to revival.
"I still feel unreal about my progress this season." This is Fati's only impression facing the camera after he scored the winning goal against Levante in February.
Perhaps this is also the world's impression of him-to stand out from La Masia's arrogant children, and become the one who will only appear in games or movies.
Perhaps it is still too early to tell whether he can become a superstar in the future.
But the 17-year-old Fati has reached a height that many predecessors could not reach.
Data map: Fati in training.
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In the current turmoil in Barcelona and the undercurrent of the alternation of old and new in Spain, Fati may have the opportunity to go straight up and speed up the approach to those legendary names.
Seventeen in life, it should be so.
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