When Adama bothered Espanyol and flattered Madrid

In the stadium of Center d’Esports L’Hospitalet, less than five minutes by car from the RCDE Stadium, played Adama Traoré when at the age of eight Barcelona he was fascinated by his speed and recruited him. That distance of a long kilometer with Cornellà is not the closest it could have been to Espanyol, since before arriving at the Masia he had tried without success in the perica quarry. Back at the Barça club, and at the gates of a derby that arrives after his dazzling re-opening against Atlético de Madrid, He is the current Barça player who hasn’t set foot in the Blue and Whites’ stadium for the least amount of time.

With the Wolverhampton Wandererswho still owns his rights, Adama tormented Espanyol on Thursday, February 27, 2020 in the turn of the sixteenth of the Europa Leaguewith a vertiginous overflow and even a goal that buried any remote expectation that the parakeets had of coming back an eliminatory that was sentenced from Molineux Stadium, in a 4-0 in which the one from La Florida had also actively participated. In England Dídac Vilà suffered it, and at the RCDE Stadium, despite the inconsequential 3-2 final for the locals, his victim was Adrià Pedrosa who will repeat his marking this Sunday.

He had no mercy from Espanyol a hardened Adama in a multitude of derbies during his 11 years in the Barcelona youth academy. not even knowing that his older brother, Moha Traoré, had played in parakeet grassroots football, up to the subsidiary stage. Released from the Blue and Whites in 2014, he now plays for a Cornellà whose field is curiously located about ten meters, door to door, from the parakeet fiefdom.

Nor on those dates, not even two years ago, did Adama remember his first stage at Barça with special longing, as he certified in an interview published by AS on February 20, 2020. Barcelona situations that I didn’t likeproblems with those in charge that existed at that time, and I made the decision to go”, he stated with some resentment. “These are things that happened, that I will tell at the time, but for now I prefer to keep to myself.”, it abounded.

And, although he assured that he did not feel “any resentment for what happened with Barça”, he acknowledged when asked about the possibility that “When it comes to deciding my future, I won’t have a problem if I go to Madrid”. “I do not close any door, it is reality”added an Adama who, to tell the truth, did not rule out returning to the Camp Nou, as has ended up happening: “The Madrid thing or the Barça thing will come when it has to come”. And it has arrived, as has his reunion with Espanyol.