Atleti bets on Javi Serrano

Atlético closed the season also in its youth category, after the brilliant league title and the defeat in the Champions Cup at the hands of Real Madrid. A tough tie against the greatest rival, where it could not be traced in the Cerro del Espino 2-1 of the first leg (the whites got the same result in the second leg), but that does not cloud the great rojiblanco course.

And now is the time to look to the future. Andrea Berta will also manage the subsidiary and the youth and one of the first measures is to keep linked to their main references. In a juvenile with multiple proper names like Mario Soriano, Giuliano Simeone, Iturbe, Héctor Peña, Corral and company, one of the great quality leaps of the season has been Javi Serrano. The pivot born in 2003 signed last season a new contract until 2025, but its growth and evolution in Atleti B has led the club to extend it for one more year, with an improvement in its contractual situation.

Javi Serrano was gaining prominence in the second mattress team until he ended up participating in Second Division B and in six of eight relegation playoff games, five of them as a starter as a footballer of the highest confidence of Antonio Rivas. The rojiblanco team failed to maintain the category and next season he will play in the Third RFEF, but the maturation of his young values ​​has been one of the few positive news of the course. With the age of majority just reached (in January he reached 18 years), Serrano reinforced the youth in the final stretch of the championship and also in the Champions Cup, completing the return match against Real Madrid. The global pandemic canceled a Youth League that could have been its European showcase.

International with the lower categories of the National Team, the good level of Javi Serrano will also have a prize with the first team, since will be part of the list of homegrown players to reinforce Simeone's preseason, that will start with many absences for the presence of a large part of the squad in the Eurocup and America's Cup. Serrano has been with the rojiblanco club for eleven years and despite the interest of multiple Spanish and European clubs in taking over his services, he has always shown his desire to succeed at Atlético. A player with a great physical display, a lot of work, struggles, recovery and ball delivery and already with baggage in the second team. Javi Serrano has the whole future ahead of him always tinged with rojiblanco.