Solde arrived at La Masia late and left immediately

Oriol Soldevila He arrived late for Barça’s grassroots football and, because of what happened in Alicante, he left quickly. Left-footed midfielder, with quality and offensive vocation because he trained as a winger, he didn’t have to travel far to get to La Masia. He may be walking because Barça club ‘scouts’ caught him after checking his progress at nearby Atlètic San Just and Cornellà.

But the path has already been made in his second year as a youth, a category in which he shared two seasons in Juvenil B (2018-19) and Juvenil A (2019-20) with players like Nico González, Ilaix Moriba, Ansu Fati or Alejandro Balde and, especially, to one who has become his best friend in this world of football: Arnau Tenas.

At the Ciutat Esportiva, Joan Gamper de Sant Joan Despí left his mark for his class, he had important minutes, but it was not enough for him to jump to Barça B and he bravely tried an adventure in the Birmingham subsidiary between 2020 and 2022 that ended last summer when he decided to accept the offer of the ambitious Intercity in terms of the future.

It wasn’t that long ago and his good night, the one that put him on the world showcase, came on Wednesday with Rico Pérez: three goals against Barça, a perfect hat-trick on his right leg, on his left leg and with a head. It was not enough for his team to remove one from Xavi Hernandez but at least it caused an extension that he will never forget. If a ‘hat-trick’ of mbappe in the finals of a World Cup is not enough for him to win the title, he will not complain either.

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Culé by birth, settled in the Camp Nou as a child by the hand of his grandfather, a member of Barça like his whole family, at Intercity-Barça he was surrounded by all his family, as if they felt something magical can happen. He didn’t have such a leading role at Intercity to think something like this could happen, but in recent days there have been hints.

Until ‘weld’, as they call him and he likes to be called, he confessed that he joked with his friends from Barcelona and Barcelona fans who called him. That cliché of “score a hat-trick, but let Barça pass” came true. He must have regretted it. He wasn’t that far from completing the perfect story that signed his friend’s KO Arnau Tenaswhere he took his shirt, in addition to raphinha and the match ball signed by his teammates. He will be talked about again. He got it. The market needs disturbances like this.