“Barça youth squad? I came to the subsidiary already with two children…”

When Raúl Tamudo became the greatest symbol of the club’s history year after year, with his goals and titles, a young man named Jonathan Soriano itched with force the door of the first team. The striker, as he himself admits in an entertaining interview in Parakeet that flies (PQV), did not succeed and went out the back door, between transfers and lack of opportunities. And, well into the following summer, he decided accept the offer the Barcelona B. A step back that earned him two steps forward.

“It was one of the toughest decisions. I was a Espanyol player and my I played my last derby as captain at the Camp Nou in a Cup match. My contract ends and I am left without a team. In mid-July I get the option of go to a branch, It was like start over. I knew that Espanyol was going to hate me, but I wanted to take the step”, explained the man from Pont de Vilomara, who acknowledges that there was a time when parakeet club “The youth squad was not treated well. If you are going to fire him, treat him well, there was no tact”he reflected.

Although it is not considered to follow Barcelona or Espanyol, knowing the two houses the striker is authorized to talk about the opportunities that they now have players of the subsidiary in Barça. The Abdes, Ferran Jutglà, Nico González… “One thing is those who leave and others who remain. Now it’s time to pull the B. I think some of those who are playing now will not be in the future, either by level or by situation. Let them take the opportunity to go to another team. The Barça subsidiary is a counter”, commented, while Soriano has always rejected to be canterano of the Barça. “Me? but yes I arrived at B already with two children“, he explained.

Apart from these adventures in the Spanish league, Soriano is a myth in Austria. The same Red Bull Salzburg that drew on Wednesday against Bayern Munich in the Champions League had Soriano as its icon, who told anecdotes of your stay there. “I remember one day my wife was giving birth and I went to the hospital. That afternoon we were playing and the coach kept sending me messages asking me to go. I arrived at the break, I went down the stairs of the stands to enter the locker room. AND I went out to play. I scored my first hat-trick in the second half… Then I was out for a week due to stress,” he recalled.

On that periodthe striker raised in Sant Adrià lived “my maturity in a team that accompanied me. He had many shortcomings, but they helped me score.” Players like Sadio Mané, now at Liverpool, or Oswald Upamecano, from Bayern, helped him: “They gave me facilities to score”. As well played in China for two years in the same competition as Wu Lei and in Arabia.