The extremes of Xavi: Abde and the memory of Onesimo, the artistic rebellion of Ilias and the calm football of Demir

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"Young people are right now the pillar of Barça. You just have to see how they train, how they compete with each other in training and how they push those who have been in the team the longest. And with Xavi they know that if they work they will have opportunities. Because they have plenty of quality ». In the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper, despite the prudence required by the delicate position of the team both in the League (seventh, four points behind Betis, their rival this Saturday) and in the Champions League (qualifying against Bayern is played next Tuesday in an Allianz without an audience), they do not hide a serene enthusiasm.

"We make a virtue of necessity", insistent from the offices of the Camp Nou.

It already happened with the explosion last season of the now injured

, a preamble to the irruption this season of two other midfielders,

and

, both already established in the starting position.

Now it is the turn of the open ends in the band, a position from which

builds his football ideology.

And which he does not intend to do without, no matter how much he has

injured - his presence in Munich is almost ruled out - and that

is lazy with the renewal.

Haggling eagerness

Without the intention of risking too much Dembélé's fragile muscles, those who oppose continuing to have continuity at the right-handed end are three young people who do not even reach their twenties:

, better known as Abde (19 years old),

(18) and

(17).

Xavi has offered ownership to each of them in his first three games as a Barça manager. In the premiere against Espanyol, Ilias debuted on the far right. In the Champions League against Benfica it was Demir's turn. And already in La Cerámica it was Abde's turn, who is one of the three who best complies with the extreme stereotype. Xavi lives dazzled by his eagerness to dribble, with a physical bearing with a curved back and a sunken head that reminds one of an old specialist like

.

Barcelona paid two million euros for Abde in the last hours of the last summer market.

A signing that Barça could not have made had they not sold

to Leipzig.

Abde was born in Beni Mellal, Morocco.

He arrived at the age of seven with his family in Carrús, in Elche, one of the poorest neighborhoods in Spain.

An admirer of

and a marked street game, they never wanted him in the lower categories of Elche.

Hercules didn't come looking for him until he was 17 years old.

It was

, the former technical secretary of Barcelona, ​​who most insisted on his arrival at the Camp Nou in one of his last services.

"Everything to succeed"

Abde, as a good rookie, already had to sing on Wednesday night with Ilias at the dinner Pedri paid to the squad.

Ilias may be our next great gem.

It has everything to succeed.

He is an artist ”, they maintain from La Masia.

Before, yes, Ilias, born in Igualada and of Moroccan origin, had to see how Barça cut him on the border between football 7 and football 11. Jordi Roura recovered him from Nàstic Manresa a year later for Infantil A. Very attached to his brother

, Ilias always had a special marking in the Barça residence due to his rebellious nature.

Who is fighting not to lose is

born in Vienna and with origins in the Turkish Trabzon, on the shores of the Black Sea.

The club values ​​your qualities.

Although he asks for more risk before a very calm game.

On loan from Rapid Vienna until June 30, 2022 and with a purchase option of ten million euros, Xavi's arrival on the bench has rescued him from the oblivion to which he had fallen with

.

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