How Bojan Krkic helped 17-year-old Barcelona youngster secure first-team chance

FC Barcelona undertook a tour of Asia this summer season for his or her preseason preparations and performed three pleasant video games in Japan and South Korea throughout this journey. Among the many first crew gamers and academy abilities that Hansi Flick took for this tour was additionally the promising teen Pedro Fernandez (Dro).

The 18-year-old ahead took full benefit of this chance, and showcased his abilities with the primary crew, particularly with the objective he scored in his debut sport in opposition to Vissel Kobe.

Nevertheless, Dro not getting these possibilities to play with and impress Flick might simply have been the case this summer season, as he didn’t have a very nice final season, and as SPORT has talked about, it was solely the direct intervention of the Barcelona Coordinator of Soccer, Bojan Krkic, that resulted in these alternatives for the teen.

A while in the past, the participant’s agent, Ivan de la Pena, and the Director of Youth Groups at Barcelona, Jose Ramon Alexanco, had critical variations over the plans for Dro’s sporting and contractual future.

To unravel the difficulty, the agent determined to take the matter to Bojan, who was already conscious of the teen’s potential from his time because the coach of the Cadete A crew, the place he had coincided with him.

Bojan thus didn’t shy from recommending the participant to Hansi Flick to name him up for the primary crew, and the German coach was additionally shortly glad with the participant’s stage

For now, Dro shall be trying to play with Barcelona Atletic for a while. Hopefully, he’ll proceed to impress the choice makers on the Blaugrana membership, and change into the subsequent massive identify to make the soar from La Masia to the primary crew.