Antonio Aranda: the jewel of the Granada quarry that goes to Barça B

The march of Aranda to Barcelona B, the Barça subsidiary team, in news advanced by Ideal, has left a certain bad taste in the mouth among many Granada fans who had high hopes for this player. But things did not happen. His contract ended and despite the fact that the Nasrid club expected to have him, it has not been possible. He will sign with the Blaugrana team for two seasons.

Antonio José Aranda Subiela (Huetor Vega, Granada, 10-07-2000) was considered the jewel of the Granada quarry, He is a footballer who can play as a second striker and midfielder. Different and very talented player, Diego Martínez aligned him with the first team in the Cup match against San Juan where he dazzled with a goal assist to Jorge Molina and a few natural talent actions times views. Aranda has played this season with Recre Granada a total of 24 games, 20 of them as a starter and has scored five goals.

For some time now, the work of Granada has improved a lot with the quarry that, historically, had little prominence. In fact, the first great impulse came during the presidency of Enrique Pina and with Juan Carlos Cordero as sports director, although it is true that at this stage a lot was bet on foreign talent. Young players who were brought in to take advantage of Recreativo Granada, the subsidiary team, and who were revalued. It is the case of Dimitrievski, Machís, Estupiñán, Peñaranda, Richard Boateng or Success among others.

Possibly, this competition made the national product better and players like Aarón Escandell, Antonio Puertas and Carlos Neva made the leap to the first team where they have consolidated. Currently, Robert Moreno's Granada takes into account young people with excellent futures forged in the lower Nasrid ranks. It is the case of goalkeeper Ángel who passed a penalty to William José in Anoeta), defenders Pepe Sánchez, Barcial and Torrente, or midfielders Isma Ruiz (attention to this player) and Álvaro Bravo. There is good material. But Antonio Aranda will not be there, who has an exciting challenge ahead of him in Barcelona's second team.