Barça renews one of the 'jewels' of La Masia

The directive of the FC Barcelona follows working in strengthening The Masia and the Tuesday closed the renewal of Iker Córdoba, one of the defenders with greater projection in the juvenile divisions of the club. The player of 16 years signed by two seasons, until June of 2024 and will continue escalando in the inferior. The signature of the new agreement produced in presence of Joan Soler, responsible director of the formative football and José Ramón Alexanco, director of the formative football.

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✍️ The player Iker Córdoba has signat, in presència of the directiu responsible of the Football Formatiu @SolerFerre i of the director of the Football Formatiu José Ramón Alexanco, the seva continuïtat to the Club durant els two anys that subtract d'juvenile stage#FCBMasia 💙❤️ pic.twitter.com/inar9rcdee

— FC Barcelona - Masia (@FCBmasia) July 12, 2022

The one of Pallaresos was pretended by the Bayern Munich and the urgency for renewing him was tremenda, since in addition to Bavarian clubs like the Borussia Dortmund, the Rome and the AC Milan were in 'career' for ficharle like free agent. Finally, the Barça had the backrest of the surroundings of the defender so that it complete his formative stage in The Masia, to which arrived does a pair of years. Córdoba Is one of the central with more probabilities to arrive to the first team between the players of the Cadet.

With a height of 1,83, the youngster stands out by his solvency in the aerial game and polivalencia in the saga, since it manages without problems in both profiles and also can play like side by left, his natural profile. Iker will fulfil 17 years in novimebre and, to continue his projection, will be very likely to see him with the Barça Atlètic during the 2022-23.

With the renewal of Iker Córdoba are four the juvenile renewed during the summer. Previously, the club had announced the signatures of the new agreements of Pablo López (18 years, right side), Brian Fariñas (16, midfield player) and Javi Alba (17, midfield player), three players that also will complete his training in the Juvenile To of the Barça after a pair of seasons in the Cadet.

The filial great 16 drops for the 2022-23

While they concretise the renewals of several juvenile, in the Barça Atlètic follow falling the drops. The Brazilian Matheus Pereira was traspasado to the Eibar and Nils Mortimer followed suit leaving to the Viborg of Denmark. Previously, the club had confirmed the drops of Ferran Jutglà (Club Witches), Lazar Carevic (Vojvodina) and Arnau Commas (Basilea). Besides, other 11 players culminated agreement on 30 June: Jandro Orellana, Lucas de Vega, Gerard Fernández 'Sin', Carlos 'Sin' Polo, Guillem Jaime, Santiago Bouquets Mingo, Arnau Solà, Igor Gomes, Àlex Ruiz, Ángel Filmed and Jordi Escobar.