Gavi continues to make history

Pablo Páez Gavira is homeless at the age of 17. Gavi, who is already known around the world, has established himself in less than a year in the elite of world football and yesterday he went on to make history in La Roja . The Barcelona midfielder scored the first goal for Luis Enrique’s team in the draw against the Czech Republic in Prague and became the youngest scorer in the history of the Spanish team, surpassing his friend and Barcelona teammate Ansu Fati. The culé striker held the precocity record at 17 years and 311 eleven days after making his second international appearance, in September 2020 against Ukraine. Gavi scored his first goal on the national jersey in his eighth game and surpassed Fati’s record by just one week difference: 17 years and 304 days.

Gavi’s historic goal came in the stoppage time of the first half. The azulgrana, who was one of the highlights of the match since he was also in Seville against Portugal, received a pass inside the area from Rodrigo, who controlled by outlining himself to the left and, using his left foot, he placed the ball close to the long post making useless the good stretch of Vaclik, a Czech goalkeeper who played for Sevilla.

The young Andalusian celebrated with anger, looked at the bench and returned first to leave the center to go again for the game. That character that Luis Enrique loves so much more than his quality and way of understanding football. An ambition and a desire that probably reminds him of footballer Lucho.

And it is the Spanish coach who has no doubt in him and since October he has always taken on Gavi, who has started to stand out in Barcelona this season. In fact, a year ago, Gavi was vacationing in his hometowns, Los Palacios and Vilafranca, and playing in the plaza with his friends when he received a call from Ramon Planes informing him that he would be doing the preseason with the first team. And from there, to Prague to debut on the national team next summer.

Luis Enrique changed eleven and substituted eight players about the match against Portugal. And the child remained as a starting point. In fact, Gavi has participated in every game since Luis Enrique called him for the first time to play, at least, the Final Four of the Nations League. There were many doubts in the environment and the boy managed to leave them in the semifinals against Italy, where he won the game against his idol, Verratti. Since then seven more games, all starters except the last friendly against Iceland.