During his visit to Arauca, in Colombia, in a work with Barça Foundation to find out for himself about the projects carried out by the blaugrana entity with more than 500 Venezuelan refugees and displaced children and youth, the president of FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta, also talked about proper names and possible signings. More than confirming that in the past winter market there was interest in the merger Luis Diazbefore signing for Liverpool, the young Colombian attacker also revealed Linda Caicedoof only 17 yearsis in the orbit of the Barça technical secretariat: “The truth is that we have wanted this for a long time. If I have to be honest, it has probably been three years. He is a very young player but he is outstanding and very good“. In fact, he did not hesitate to point out that “in our ‘scouting’ department we have his goal”.
Laporta also explained that despite this strong interest in Linda Caicedohis possible signing still depends on several factors: “I know that there are contacts, I can confirm it, but a certain situation that is in the process of being resolved has not yet been resolved, and there is nothing else. I am not can broadcast here how the signing is going because I think I’ll be doing those working for it a favor.”
Debut in full with only 14 years
The player of Deportivo Cali He is one of the young promises in the world scene and he also confirmed it in the end Under-17 World Cupwhere Colombia was runner-up after losing the final against Spain, and where Linda Caicedo selected second best player of the tournamentjust behind the azulgrana vicky lopez. In addition, he is also the third leading scorer, with 4 goals in 6 games played.
A few months earlier, this past summer, Caicedothat at only 14 years old he debuted as a professional with América de Cali and with the full “coffee maker” team, he has already performed in the U-20 World Cup, reaching the quarterfinals, in a tournament also won by the Spanish team, and scoring two goals in four that game.
Source: La Verdad
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