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Only on September 3, 17-year-old Ansu Fati made his debut with the Spanish team, entering as a substitute in the second half of the League of Nations game against Germany (1: 1), and three days after this event he played a match complete against Ukraine (4: 0). , becoming one of the main characters in the fight. In addition to the goal and the penalty obtained already in minute 2 of the match, Fati literally pulled the defense of the ‘blue-yellows’, who often looked simply confused in the context of the aggressive and confident actions of the young Spaniard.
Fati in Spain is already called the future of Barcelona, and Transfermarkt estimates the young man at a fantastic 50 million euros for players his age. However, Blaugrana bosses are unlikely to agree to part with their flank striker for such a ridiculous amount, because at the end of last year they made sure to raise the clause of Fati’s contract from € 100 million to € 170 million.
Who is Ansu Fati and what was his path to great football? Let’s try to track it down, especially since the 17-year-old’s biography turned out to be very colorful …
Born in Africa but ended up in Europe due to war
Ansu Fati was born on October 31, 2002 in Bissau, the capital of the African state of Guinea-Bissau, which is located in the west of the continent and until 1973 was a Portuguese colony. Her father, Bori Fati, played soccer and her mother, Lourdes Fati, worked as a housekeeper. The family lived, to put it mildly, poorly, like the vast majority of the population of Guinea-Bissau.
Four years before Ansu Fati was born, civil war broke out in his home country. Fierce clashes broke out between the rebels and government forces, aided by neighboring Guinea and Senegal. The current president of the country, João Bernardo Vieira, managed to retain power, but already in May 1999 he was forced to resign and flee to Portugal. Soon, the interim government handed over power in the country to opposition leader Kumba Yale, but he remained in office for only three years, and then a military coup broke out again in Guinea-Bissau.
These events threw the African state into greater poverty and ruin. Few managed to find a job and simply provide the family with everything they needed, so Ansu Fati’s father, even before the birth of his son, was forced to leave Guinea-Bissau and go to Europe in search of work. Bori Fati’s first stop on the Old Continent was Portugal. There, the African tried to win what he could and did before: play football. However, the lower league appearances did not generate significant income that could help Faty Sr. move his entire family to Europe.
After reading an advertisement in one of the Portuguese newspapers about the possibility of an emigrant finding work in the Spanish town of Marinalada, Bori Fati did not hesitate for a second. Very soon, however, the “golden mountains” promised by employers, unsurprisingly, turned to nothing. Fati Sr. was forced to do odd jobs and beg for food on the streets of Marinaleda. But one day, luck still smiled on Bori, and this turn, probably, became the key for her entire family, including Ansu Fati. In Seville, the father of Barcelona’s current talent unexpectedly met the mayor of Marinalida, who offered Bori a job as a driver.
Having impressed his new boss with incredible modesty and hard work, Bori Fati managed to move his wife and four children from Guinea-Bissau to their home in Spain. The African migrant was helped in this by the mayor of Marinaleda, thanks to which Ansu Fati ended up in Europe at the age of 6.
Hit Sevilla on the second try, lost a year to Barcelona
Bori Fati, who had football experience behind his back, really wanted his sons to prove themselves in the “million game” and tried to achieve greater success than his father. At one point, Bori had to stop playing football, since it did not bring him income, thanks to which he could maintain his life and the prosperity of his family. However, Fati Sr.’s passion for soccer did not fade and he managed to pass it on to his children.
The eldest son of the family, Fati Braima, who was born 4 years before Ansu, was the first to try his hand at soccer. He managed to qualify for the Sevilla quarry, setting an example for Ansu. However, when he decided to follow in his older brother’s footsteps, he faced new difficulties, the first time he was not taken to Seville. For this reason, Ansu Fati had to play a season at Herrera before trying again at Sevilla, after which he finally got the go-ahead to enter the club’s quarry.
In the summer of 2011, Braima Fati was brought to the Barcelona academy, but Ansu’s play in Sevilla’s youth teams very quickly attracted the attention of scouts from the best clubs there. As a result, both Real and Barcelona sent proposals to Ansu. It would seem that the boy would be closer to moving to Madrid, especially because he sympathized with the local club, which also offered better economic conditions, but everything was decided by a visit to the house of Fati Albert Puig, who was working as a director at that time. Barcelona coach.
Puig presented to Ansu and his parents the entire La Masia urbanization project. He realized that here it is, first of all, about talking to people not about money, but about the real prospects for the development of the child in football. As a result, the Barcelona representative was successful and Ansu Fati, along with his parents, agreed to move to Catalonia. However, Sevilla did not want to part with his talent and tried to do everything possible to prevent the agreement from being finalized. As a result, Ansu Fati was left without football for a year, before moving to La Masia.
Success, trauma, and promotion
Quickly Ansu Fati managed to establish himself in the Barcelona academy as one of the key talents in his age group. The captain’s armband was even tried on, but quite quickly after that, Ansu’s career saw the first serious test, directly related to the life of football: at the age of 13 he received a serious injury. In December 2015, in the game against Espanyol, Fati suffered a double broken leg. Doctors diagnosed injuries to the tibia and fibula in his right leg, so Ansu spent a lot of time in the hospital and only ended up out of football for nine months.
During all this time, Ansu Fati received great help from his older brother Brahima. He visited him in the hospital, charged him with optimism and gave him faith in himself. Perhaps, after such damage, the careers of most young footballers would have waned, but for Ansu Fati, this was probably the turning point. Deciding that injury shouldn’t break him, he set himself the task of returning to the soccer field and becoming a much stronger player than before.
Soon, when Ansu returned to the field, the coaches and specialists really appreciated how much the young man added mentally. Very soon he was overtaken by a rapid increase in popularity, which led to the signing of the first professional contract with Barcelona on July 25, 2019. And a month later, on August 25, Ansu Fati made his debut in the “Blaugranas” first team. , who at that time was going through a difficult personal moment caused by the injuries of Dembélé and Suárez.
Fati made his debut for Barcelona at the age of 16 years and 298 days, becoming the youngest signing in the history of the Catalan team since 1941, and the second after Vicens Martínez. To play against Betis, the consent of Ansu Fati’s parents was needed, since in Spain there is a strict requirement by the rule of participation of minors in matches that start late at night. After his son’s debut with the Blaugranas, Bori Fati said in his heart: “Now I can die in peace, because my son played for Barcelona.
Spain’s new hope
The overwhelming majority of readers probably know how Fati continues to make his way to the top. We only noticed that Ansu had the right to play for three teams at once: Guinea-Bissau (as his direct homeland), Portugal (thanks to his grandparents who were born and lived in colonial Portuguese Guinea) and Spain (the country where he lives). from 6 years).
Evaluating the degree of talent of Ansu Fati, the management of the Royal Spanish Football Federation quickly began the process to obtain citizenship of this country for a footballer. As a result, on September 20, 2019, Ansu, having abandoned the Guinea-Bissau passport, became a full citizen of the Kingdom of Spain.
On October 15, 2019, Ansu Fati made his debut for the Spanish Under-21 team in a match against his teammates from Montenegro, and less than a year later, on September 3, 2020, he had a debut match for the Spanish team. However, so far Ansu Fati played his best game for the Red Fury against the Ukraine team. Although this will probably not be for long, because even more brilliant and memorable performances are sure to follow in his career, backed by many prestigious awards and trophies …
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