Ansu Fatia 19-year-old Barça striker, is the protagonist of the last chapter of ‘Made in La Masia’, a Barça TV documentary that traces his career from his arrival at the club as a child until his confirmation in the first team overcoming difficult moments. Ansu gets excited in the program when listening to interventions recorded for the occasion by their parents, Bori y Mary Lourdesformer coaches like Albert Puig, Mark Serra y Ernest Valverde and colleagues and friend like Eric Garcia.
“We are a very united family, if one suffers, everyone suffers. They are my best support. Thanks to my father and my mother I have fulfilled my dream,” he explained, recalling the difficult moments of his childhood: “Growing up without my father was very hard , he came to Spain to earn a living for us and I stayed in Guinea-Bissau. I couldn’t see him until I was almost 7 years old and I left my country to go to Seville”, he recalled excitedly when he heard his father’s words in a video. At that moment, he revealed a personal wish: “My dream is to return to Guinea-Bissau and being able to help the children there with things like education, and knowing where I lived, remembering how everything was. I haven’t been able to do it yet,” he said.
His mother, Maria Lourdesrecalled that “if Ansu is hungry does not wait for anyone” and Ansu revealed that “rice with chicken is my favorite dish and mango, my favorite fruit”
He recalled his start in the Andalusian Peloteros and his move to Barça to live in La Masia: “It was hard again to stop seeing my parents, but I understood what I had to do if I wanted to fulfill my dream, which was my job” . He laughed at that moment and almost cried when he saw the first images of him at Barça as a child.
Mark Serrahis first coach, showed an ‘sms’ that he wrote to him Ansu way to Seville before his first Christmas at the club in 2012 after a bad game: “Hello Marc, I’m already on the AVE. I’m so sorry for the party shit I’ve done, it won’t happen again. Bones festes. The coach explains that “when he arrived as a youngster I had to stop him, he did things like too many dribbles, overhead kicks, shots with his shoulder… In the big games he appeared. With that message I saw that he was a responsible boy who wanted to learn and improve, competitive”. Ansu recalled that “Marc It helped me a lot, I came from the street game, I was always joking, I didn’t concentrate much. He made some tricks, some left over… He taught me to respect the rival and told me that the best way to do it was to score more goals and win the game”
Albert Puigformer grassroots soccer coordinator, explained the moment of reviewing the school grades, when he and Take Kubo They cried before entering their offices. “He was the bad teacher who told me off, but he needed him to have discipline and be strict. He helped me a lot to respect”, he valued. Ansu.
It was time to talk about the fracture of the tibia and fibula that he suffered in children. “I wanted to cry because of the pain, but I didn’t when I saw that my mother was in such bad shape. I cried at night when my father arrived at the hospital. I thought that he would never play football again.”
Showed up Eric Garcia in a video remembering the moments they lived together as children: “You were a bit of a bastard, I would have grabbed you by the neck, when you bargained with me…”. Y Ansu revealed that “when he did something mischievous, he blamed Ericthat he was the good boy and then nothing happened”.
The most current moments arrived: “The day of the debut I was very nervous, that week I couldn’t eat or sleep, see that you are fulfilling your dream… I went to train with the first team in tears. The first thing that comes to mind It’s the work your parents did to be able to be there.”
Ernest Valverdewho made him debut in the first team at the start of the 2019-20 season, explained to him in a video that “I wanted to give you the opportunity that day, I hoped the game would be a little clear. It was a surprise for everyone, but not for those of us who saw you train every day”. Ansu He answered: “I will be eternally grateful to him.”
He was moved by the images of public support the day he returned to the Levante in September 2021 after his serious injury suffered against Betis in November 2020 and the knee operations: “These are things that happen, I put in my head that I have experienced more difficult things, like my father coming to Spain without us to work on our future”
He revealed that “my family is Muslim, we believe, and with the injuries I have prayed a lot. I always tread health for my family and the last thing I do is ask for myself.”
And he concluded by stating that “I am still the child I was, affectionate with my parents. A person should not change regardless of what they have or do not have, they must know how to respect and have the humility to want to work and improve.”
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