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"Bryan always dares."
It is repeated by all those who have seen him train in the Sports City on the Utrera road, in Seville.
They are
Pablo Blanco
, Ernesto Chaos or Joaquín Caparrós, who made decisions in the sports management of the club when it was necessary to make their incorporation and progression.
The signing by Tottenham became Bryan Gil, on Tuesday, the man of the day of Spanish football, something that can be again if Luis de la Fuente estimates it, in the duel in which the Olympic team plays its pass to quarters against Argentina (13:00, Spanish time).
The draw serves him but he will need the goal, and no one has seen the way with such clarity as the young talent of Barbate.
Despite not being a starter, Bryan has been one of the first alternatives used by De la Fuente when the goal did not arrive, against Egypt as against Australia.
In the second meeting, its verticality and overflow caused panic in the ocean defense.
"He reminded me of one of the games in which I took him off the bench, in Valladolid," recalls Caparrós, during the last stage in which he managed the Seville club in a circumstantial way, after the dismissal of
Pablo Machín
.
"It was a 0-0 game, of course. Bryan came out, broke it and generated the play of the winning goal."
A "ROMPENTRENADORES"
Against Australia, the goal came from a set piece, thanks to a shot from
Asensio
and the shot from
Oyarzabal
, but the change in dynamics corresponded to this "different footballer", as Caparrós says, a "'breakthrough' with an electric dribble, that you dismantle a system, of the players that there are not, that is why it has attracted the attention of the Premier ".
"Bryan was loved by several clubs when he was a child, Barcelona and Betis among them," says the coach.
"But I have to say that Sevilla did a great job, because they behaved in helping their family, who needed it."
The past crisis had left the father unemployed, dedicated to construction, so the club paid for gasoline to travel from Barbate to Seville to train.
Almost 200 kilometers a day.
One a week, they let him train in his town until they demanded that he join the club's soccer residence.
He already knew then that his life and that of his family was in his dribbling.
The benefit has been clear.
The sale to the 'Spurs' is one more of those made by Sevilla with players from their quarry.
Bryan will leave 25 million euros in the club's coffers.
"He is a classic product of the Sevilla quarry, like
Reyes
or
Jesús Navas
, and he has a capacity for sacrifice that is not highlighted. He defends and, sometimes, you have to tell him to save effort so that he can develop his game fully. We corrected him so that, instead of coming to receive, he went straight into space ", explains Caparrós.
The acceleration in his progression was key: "At the age of 16, we put him to play in the subsidiary, under
Luci's
orders
, and it is not easy to do so at that age in Second B, where there are very tough and tough teams and players." Caparrós adds that in what the footballer is currently, much credit must be given to
José Luis Mendilibar
, Eibar coach: "'Mendi' was brave, because in a club of that level it is not easy to place bets on offensive footballers of that type" .
De la Fuente, who can already count on
Mingueza
against Argentina, is not the only one who has used Bryan as an alternative in games without apparent offensive solutions.
Luis Enrique
already did it
in the absolute, because with the Andalusian in the field, things always happen.
The footballer faces determined, as if his life depended on each dribble.
"He was very clear that he wanted to be a professional footballer," concludes Caparrós.
Until the day he had to be absent from a game, for his First Communion, he ran to ask about the result of his team as soon as he received Communion.
There is no day without dribbling.
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