Everyone at Barcelona was shocked when Marc Guiu scored the team’s first goal after only 33 seconds.

 

 

While Robert Lewandowski was hurt, he worked out every day with the first team. Everyone in the club now knows what he can do. He will become 18 years old on January 6, 2019.

 

It’s not easy for him to drop deep and run through gaps like most Barcelona number nines do. He needs to be on the last player’s shoulder and wait for the right ball. He did that on Sunday night. He hit the ball at the right time to stay on base during his run. Then he moved his body apart, touched the ball once, and Spain’s best goalie, Unai Simon, missed it. They beat Athletic Bilbao, and on Wednesday, Guiu played in his first Champions League game.

 

 

Because he scored so many goals with the under-18s, Barcelona doesn’t usually have a number nine like this young player. He quickly moved up to the club’s B-team, which is why Xavi picked him when Lewandowski got hurt. He would have a chance, the boss at Barcelona said. The smart boss at Barcelona didn’t think it would happen so fast and get along so well with him.

Guiu joined the team in 2013 from a youth club in Sant Celoni, which is about an hour’s drive north of Barcelona. When he was seven, he stood out. Since then, he’s been getting better little by little. Vissel Kobe, Forrest Gump’s old team, played a practice game against his team in February of this year. He had never worked before.

The manager of Barcelona’s B team, Rafa Marquez, saw that he had already scored five goals this year. He just played him in Spain’s third-tier league against Nastic. Xavi put him on his team for the game against Granada before the summer break.

People from all over the world have also seen him because he got eight goals in 12 games for the Under-17s. As a player under 17, he got four goals, the same number as his friend Lamine Yamal. The goal he scored on Sunday helped Barcelona beat Athletic Club. Both of them were on the field at the same time.

 

Guiu played in the Champions League for the first time the next night. In the 75th minute, he came on for Joao Felix, and they went on to beat Shakhtar Donet, 2-1.

Barcelona likes how he wants to learn from players who have been around longer. Ronald Araujo, the center back, has taken him under his wing ever since he got to work with the first team. Manel, his dad, told him, “I’m the happiest man in the stadium.” “We never thought this would happen in a million years.” I, his mom, and his sister all cried over it.

 

“We worked hard for eleven years to get here.” He’s done his job really well. I’ll hug him and tell him to keep it up when he gets home.

Nothing else will change. Before he came off the bench at the Lluis Companys Stadium, 47,000 people were watching him on Instagram. He has more than $900,000 in cash now.

Gaizka Mendieta, who was watching the game on TV, said, “He won’t sleep tonight.” He used to play defense for Barcelona and Spain.