It's more than 14 years since the
Argentine made his debut against Porto and here, some of his
ex-team-mates look back at his early days at the Catalan club
Never
had Barcelona's Cadete B team beaten Espanyol's Cadete A in the first
few years of the new millennium. The Blaugrana, obsessed as ever with
technique, had not been able to overcome their rivals, who were
physically stronger and more experienced.
We went to their place and we scored
three," Marc Valiente, a defender with KAS Eupen in Belgium and one of
the captains of that team, recalls to Goal . It was 2002 and Barcelona's raw diamond was a tiny Argentine aged 14. He was the difference in an almost unbeatable team.
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