Carlo Adriano García, a young footballer from Vila-real and Villarreal, debuted this Wednesday with the yellow first team. A debut in this first Cup tie that is undoubtedly special for the player and for the club, which sees how its youth squad continues to grow. But this debut involves more than just the fact that a young pearl from the quarry reaches the first team. That of Carlo Adriano is a very special debut for the not so young yellow fans, who saw the son of one of the referents of the other Villarreal jump onto the field, of that Villarreal that was very far from what it is now.
And is that The young midfielder is the son of the mythical yellow striker Adriano García, a leading player at Villarreal in the late eighties and early nineties, being also one of the top historical scorers of the club. He played five seasons in the entity of La Plana, achieving promotions to Second B and Second Division, to which is added that He was one of the top scorers in history, scoring 75 goals and only being surpassed by Giuseppe Rossi.
Injuries forced him to leave football at the age of 27, so he went to work at the club performing functions as assistant coach in the entity. Interestingly, Adriano García He already had one of his sons, Christian García, in the quarry of the yellow team, coming to play in the subsidiary team. Now, it has been his other son, who also plays in the subsidiary team, who has been able to debut in the first yellow team.
Another of the special data with the debut of Carlo Adriano García is that he is a player born in Vila-real, which makes him the sixth player in the town to debut in the first team. a debut that players like Héctor Font, Xisco Nadal, César Arzo, Pau Torres, Migue Leal and Carlos Adriano himself.