This Saturday Castilla crosses powers against Barça B for the first time in seven years and the white team can present a pair of centrals born, precisely, in rival territory, in Barcelona. Is about Mario Gila (21 years old) who is Raúl’s reference defender and Edgar Pujol (17 years old), a center-back who has been squeezing in Juvenil A and the lower teams of the National Team and this week has gone up to Castilla. Two boys that Madrid recruited after standing out almost under the noses of Barça scouts …
Two future defenders who are sticking their heads in Factory. Ancelotti internally praised Gila’s conditions when he looked at the reports from the centrals that came from the quarry and Pujol has now attracted the attention of Raúl. The two came out, precisely, from Damm, a training club in Barcelona. In the case of both, curiously, he had previously passed through Espanyol. Gila in 2017-18, when Madrid threw the glove on him, and Edgar at the same time, between 2017 and 2019.
Gila will be able to play against the Barça subsidiary after overcoming some muscular ailments that have had him stopped for two weeks and Pujol has been promoted to the Castilla dynamic although he is officially registered two steps down, in the white Youth B. Proof of an evolution that is also being noticed in other talents such as Julen Jon Guerrero and that Madrid has kept under lock and key. The two, Gila and Pujol, have recently renovated at the White House until 2024.
Jaume Jardí, in Castilla’s duel against Albacete.
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Besides them there is another special case, that of Jaume Jardí. This MiniClásico will be the first time he has faced Barça since he left Juvenil A Barcelona this summer and took the airlift. Last week he started in the Castilla visit to Cornellà (1-0). Three Catalan madridistas against Barça B …