This summer, Madrid supporters were able to attend the hatch of the young Gonzalo Garcia. The 20 -year -old striker, who was playing in Real Madrid’s young teams, proved to be under the orders of Xabi Alonso during the Club World Cup. Very little appeared with the pro team last season, the versatile Spanish striker perfectly seized his luck. Author of 4 goals and 1 assist in 6 games, he forced Casa Blanca to change her plans. While he was to be sold to Getafe, he finally extended with a 1 billion release clause.
The hatching of Gonzalo Garcia, which occurs almost a year after that of Raul Asencio, confirms the current trend: Real Madrid does not exploit the young talents of the club enough. While the latter often seem able to bring to the first team. With the arrival of Xabi Alonso, the Merengues intend to exploit the young people of the club a little more thanks to the work of Alvaro Arbeloa, friend of Xabi Alonso and current Castilla coach. In this sense, the former Spanish right side regularly keeps his ex-teammate of young people to follow.
Xabi Alonso validated the profile
And the new nugget is certainly called Thiago Pitarch. Just 18 years old, the young Relayer midfielder is now the strong man of the Arbeloa team when he was above all played in U19. Passed by Atlético but especially Getafe and Léganès, he joined the Fabrica just two years ago. Then he was able to take advantage of the absences to scrape playing time and become an essential element of Castilla. Technically very skillful and very dynamic in the heart of the game recalling a certain Luka Modric, his name quickly went back to the ears of Xabi Alonso. The new Real Madrid coach decided to give him minutes during the preparation match against Léganès.
In this meeting, he shone with a goal and confirmed the current trend: he could quickly be integrated into the pro group. And necessarily his name did not go unnoticed … in Morocco. Thiago Pitarch Pinar also has Moroccan nationality by his grandmother (originally from Al Hoceima in Morocco). The scouts of the Atlas Lions have already started to chat with him and faced with this “threat”, Spain was quick to react by summoning it directly with the U18. It remains to be seen whether it will be enough to lock it permanently. One thing is certain, the 18 -year -old is the feeling of summer on the side of Valdebebas and his name should appear regularly this season. And the battle between Spain and Morocco will still be raging …
