Nico Melamed, ‘the sapphire kid’ of Espanyol

The 2021/22 season promises to be very important for the future of the race of Nico Melamed. After stabilizing in the first team of the Spanish the course spent in Second, the young emerging star of 20 years is one of the most valuable pieces of the squad of Vicente Moreno ahead of the new season. He will not debut in First, because he already did it from the hand of Abelard in June 2020 with the team inevitably heading to LaLiga SmartBank, but it will be its presentation to the general public that does not look below the highest category of Spanish football. And it will give a lot to talk about. “I face this season with great enthusiasm and great humility. I am ambitious and I want to be important, but the path is to show it from the first minute of the first preseason training until the last game, “he said at a press conference this Wednesday in a wonderful declaration of intent.

Melamed participated in a total of 33 matches of the 42 in which the Spanish he earned his return to First Division, and although he started only 12 of them, he had enough time to score 6 goals. Some of them, like the one achieved in added time against Mirandés to save a point in which it was probably the most delicate moment of the season, more than important. And the next challenge is to endorse in First the potential shown in Second. “I have always done my best since I arrived at Spanish in children's category. I'm going to be the same whatever the circumstances, and now in First even more ”, he indicated in this regard.

25 ‘kilos’ of clause

Nico Melamed renewed with him Spanish in October 2020 and then signed until June 2024. Said link contemplated that the termination clause went from about 8 million euros to 15, but with a condition that said that, in case of promotion, it would become 25 ' kilos' currently listed. And his teammate Javi puado, another of the great assets of the blue and white team, also emerged from the quarry like him, signed a new contract last week until June 2025. “I am very happy for him and excited because he is still here since he is a key piece and we are to give many joys ”, he said regarding the continuity of a Javi puado right now in Tokyo to play the Olympic Games with Spain.

Javi puado, Embarba, Raul De Tomás and his own Nico Melamed make up a poker of aces with which Vicente Moreno wants to win the game on the return to Primera del Spanish. Nico Melamed He is the youngest of those mentioned. A pearl with Argentine ancestry that could well be referred to as ‘el pibe de oro’ but dyed blue and white fits more like ‘el pibe de sapphire’, a cornerstone of the project of the Spanish really valuable to the club.