Yeremi Pino is pulverizing all the precocity records at Villarreal. In fact, he was already the youngest in the house to play in the Europa League and Super Cup finals. The Canary winger is 18 years old and almost 11 months old and he is already a fixture for Unai Emery, who for a year has given him confidence and stripes in the first team.
Pino has been playing regularly this preseason, which suggests that this Tuesday he has many options to be able to play against Atalanta in the first game of the Champions League. If so, the international footballer He will be the youngest player from the yellow quarry to make his debut in this competition.
Pino can flip Xisco Nadal's record, current delegate of the first team, who achieved debut in the Champions League season 05-06 with nineteen years and almost five months. Nadal played four minutes in the group stage match Villarreal played against Cristiano Ronaldo's Manchester United.
Other homegrown players to debut in the Champions League were César Arzo with nineteen years on 05-06, Joselu with twenty on 11-12, and Gonzalo Rodriguez with twenty-one years on 05-06.