Adama Traoré In a party with the Wolverhampton

HERO IN THE SHADOW

Adama Traoré: Main figure of Barça's first Youth League

Published:29/01/2022 - 18:33h

Updated:29/01/2022 - 19:54h

The new signing of FC Barcelona, ​​Adama Traoré was one of the most outstanding players of the debut in the European youth tournament of the 2013-2014 academic year, the Youth League

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Eight years backwards saw light a new competition to award a greater projection to the juvenile clubs Europeans: the UEFA Youth League. It does exactly eight years the FC Barcelona left by seated his bet by the basic football when conquering the emergent competition in his first edition. In that team began to stand out a habilidoso extreme that has finished for turning into the new signing of the entity culé: Adama Traoré.

That season, the 2013-14, went one of the most wonderful that lived Adama in his stage like footballer of the FC Barcelona, that lengthened during at all less than eleven campaigns; since ingresó in Benjamín B in 2004. Traoré Played with the Juvenile, premièred with the Barça B and debuted with the first team in little more than two months.

Luck delivered

Still in juvenile age, with hardly 17 years, Adama was a fundamental piece in the gear of Jordi Vinyals to conquer the Old Continent. In this litter desbordada of talent, only few finish for achieving the elite futbolística. Several find at present without team, like the guardameta Ondoa or the forwards The Ouriachi, Maxi Rolón or Ebwelle; authors of four, three and a goal in said tournament, respectively.

Some reached the filial culé, as José Aurelio Suárez, Palencia, Laughed, Tarín, Quintillà or Kaptoum, but so alone Munir The Haddadi reached the first team. The Moroccan, that at present is a member of the Seville, contested 56 meetings with the main staff, where annotated 12 goals and delivered 11 assistances. Others had to test luck in exotic destinations to be able to devote to the professional football, like Campins in Hungary, Godswill in Sweden, Huertas in Poland or Enguene in Kuwait and Georgia.

A true jewel

On the Barça B, Adama returned to the Youth League in the final stages of the tournament. It participated in the quarter-finals of the tournament in front of the Arsenal, split in which it went author of a doublet, that allowed to the culés reach the Final Four of Nyon after winning to the picture londinense (4-2). A solitary goal of Munir in front of the Schalke 04 gave the note to the so longed for final in front of the Benfica.

Adama Conformed the offensive trident, beside Munir -maximum goleador of the tournament with eleven goals in ten parties- and of The Ouriachi. The one of L'Hospitalet assisted to the Moroccan in the 2-0: driving by the right band sobreponiéndose to his rivals by speed and power, cut in inside the area to yield the leather to Munir that finished to pleasure at first. He same commissioned to close the marker taking advantage of the position advanced of the guardameta rival.

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