Ansu Fati

Ansu Fati
Personnel
Surname	Anssumane Fati Vieira
birthday	31st October 2002  (age 17)
place of birth	Bissau ,  Guinea-Bissau
size	178 cm
position	wing
Juniors
Years	station
2009-2010	CDF Herrera
2010–2012	Sevilla FC
2012-2019	FC Barcelona
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2019–	FC Barcelona	24 (7)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2019–	Spain U21	2 (0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: July 19, 2020 2 As of November 16, 2019

Anssumane "Ansu" Fati Vieira (born October 31, 2002 in Bissau ) is a Spanish - Guinea-Bissau football player . The winger , who came to Spain as a 6-year-old and assumed Spanish citizenship at the age of 16 , has played for FC Barcelona since his youth and is a Spanish U21 international .

Personal

Ansu Fati's father was also a football player and played, among other things, at a semi-professional level at Benfica Bissau . In 1998 he emigrated alone from the former Portuguese colony of Guinea-Bissau to Portugal to earn money for the family. In 2001 he moved to Spain in the town Herrera in the vicinity of Seville to the construction of the AVE - high-speed line Córdoba-Málaga of the railway company Renfe to work. After the construction work was completed, he took various jobs. In 2008, his father met the mayor of the town of Marinaleda , around 10 kilometers from Herrera , Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo , who hired him as a chauffeur . In 2009 the rest of the family moved to Herrera when Fati, born in Bissau , was 6 years old.

Fati's eldest brother Braima (* 1998) is also a soccer player and also played in the youth team at FC Barcelona. His cousin Braima Baldé (* 1995) went through several stations in Germany and is currently without a club. On September 20, 2019, Fati acquired Spanish citizenship through naturalization . His full name in the Spanish passport is Anssumane Fati Vieira (see Spanish surnames ). He is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish .

Career

In the club

2009 to 2019: beginnings

Like his father, Fati also played for CDF Herrera (2009 to 2010) and then moved to Sevilla FC for two years (2010 to 2012). At the age of 10, FC Barcelona showed interest in Fati and recorded it in La Masia in 2012 . He had also had the option to play for Real Madrid , which his family ultimately refused.

Already in the 2018/19 season he was B-Junior (U17) for the A-Jugend (U19) in the UEFA Youth League and scored 4 goals in 9 games. In March 2019 he was also in the second men's team in the third-class Segunda División B in the matchday squad, but without being substituted on.

Since 2019: Record player at FC Barcelona

Most of the 2019 summer preparation was done in the second team . It was planned that he would mainly be used in the U19s and in the second team in the 2019/20 season. At the end of July, he extended his contract to June 30, 2022, which included a release clause of 100 million euros. With strikers Lionel Messi , Ousmane Dembélé and Luis Suárez injured in the professional squad, head coach Ernesto Valverde let him take part in training at the end of August.

On August 25, 2019 Fati debuted at the age of 16 years, 9 months and 25 days at 5: 2 win over Real Betis in the Primera División when he came on in the closing stages. He became the second youngest player in FC Barcelona's league history and the club's first player to be born in the 21st century , behind Vicente Martínez (1941 at the age of 16 years, 9 months and 7 days) . In his second professional appearance on August 31, 2019 against CA Osasuna , he came on as a substitute in the second half and scored his first competitive goal at an intermittent 1: 1, making him the youngest league goal scorer in FC Barcelona history and the third youngest goal scorer behind Fabrice Olinga and Iker Muniain the Primera División was. Two weeks later he was already in the starting line-up, scoring his second goal (first goal at Camp Nou ) in the 5-2 win over Valencia CF and also provided the assist for the interim 2-0, which Frenkie de Jong scored with his first Scored goal for Barcelona. On September 17, 2019, Fati became the youngest player in the club's history to play in the UEFA Champions League at the age of 16 years and 321 days in the 0-0 draw against Borussia Dortmund . He replaced Bojan Krkic , who made his Champions League debut for FC Barcelona in 2007 at the age of 17 years and 22 days. At the end of November 2019, Fati was voted 6th in the Golden Boy election for the best U21 player in Europe of 2019, behind João Félix , Jadon Sancho , Kai Havertz , Erling Haaland and Matthijs de Ligt . At the beginning of December 2019, his contract, which ran until June 30, 2022, was adjusted. It was u. a. his release clause raised to 170 million euros, which automatically increases to 400 million euros if he becomes a full member of the professional squad. On December 10, 2019, Fati scored 2-1 against Inter Milan and, at 17 years and 40 days, became the youngest scorer in Champions League history.

Mostly brought on as a substitute under Valverde, Fati started playing more frequently in the starting line-up after changing coach to Quique Setién in January. He finished his debut season with 24 league appearances (11 times from the start) in which he scored 7 goals.

In the national team

Fati could play for the Guinea-Bissau , Spanish and Portuguese football associations as Guinea-Bissau is a former colony of Portugal and people born there can take on Portuguese citizenship. On September 20, 2019 Fati was in summary proceedings in Spain naturalized because the Spanish Federation was planning to him in the squad of national team U17 beginning of the end of October 17 World Cup 2019 in Brazil to invoke. However, FC Barcelona was against Fatis participating in the World Cup, as he would have missed up to 7 competitive games - including the Clásico against Real Madrid . At the beginning of October it was decided that he would not be considered for the World Cup squad, but that he should be appointed to a higher age group during the next international break in November. A few days later Fati was approved by the FIFA granted permission game, prompting him Luis de la Fuente for the European Championship qualifying match of the U21 national team against Montenegro in place of the injured Carles Pérez nachnominierte. In the 2-0 away win, Fati came on in the closing stages, making him the second youngest Spanish U21 international at the age of 16 years and 350 days behind Bojan Krkić (16 years and 282 days in 2007).

Fati can change associations up to a competitive game in an senior national team. In August 2020 he was nominated by Luis Enrique for the Nations League games of the Spanish senior team against Germany and Ukraine in September.

Web links

• Ansu Fati in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Ansu Fati in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Ansu Fati in the database of weltfussball.de
• Ansu Fati in the database of the Spanish Football Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Descalzo y en bañador: así fueron los inicios de Ansu Fati, la nueva perla del Barça , elmundo.es, August 27, 2019, accessed on September 24, 2019.
2. ↑ 'A star is born': Ansu Fati announces himself and changes his world , theguardian.com, September 16, 2019, accessed on September 24, 2019.
3. ↑ Ansu Fati ya es español , elpais.com, September 21, 2019, accessed on September 24, 2019.
4. ↑ See Braima Fati on transfermarkt.de, accessed on August 26, 2019.
5. ↑ See Braima Baldé on transfermarkt.de, accessed on September 26, 2019.
6. ↑ Transfers on transfermarkt.de , accessed on June 17, 2020
7. ↑ See the document on his naturalization on marca.es, accessed on September 24, 2019.
8. ↑ ^{a b} Confirmed: Barcelona jewel Ansu Fati receives Spanish passport in an urgent procedure - debut already in October? , sportbuzzer.de, September 21, 2019, accessed on September 23, 2019.
9. ↑ Ansu Fati: Spain and Portugal are obviously fighting for the Barcelona jewel - father: "He feels like Portuguese" , sportbuzzer.de, September 22, 2019, accessed on September 23, 2019.
10. ↑ ^{a b c} Diario de Sevilla: Ansu Fati, el sueño de un guineano criado en Herrera se hace realidad. August 26, 2019, Retrieved September 15, 2019 (European Spanish). 
11. ↑ ^{a b} Ansu Fati, the jewel of Barcelona's academy that dreams of the Camp Nou , marca.com, August 21, 2019, accessed on August 26, 2019.
12. ↑ Ansu Fati leads Barça B win with Marcus McGuane also on target , sport-english.com, July 31, 2019, accessed on August 26, 2019.
13. ↑ "It's not normal": Youngster Ansu Fati takes off , kicker.de, September 16, 2019, accessed on September 16, 2019.
14. ↑ Ansu Fati: 16 years old, 15 minutes to dream and congratulations from Messi , marca.com, August 26, 2019, accessed on August 26, 2019.
15. ↑ Ansu Fati debuts with the first team , fcbarcelona.com, August 25, 2019, accessed August 26, 2019.
16. ↑ Osasuna 2-2 Barcelona In: BBC of August 31, 2019 (accessed August 31, 2019)
17. ↑ Ansu Fati is the youngest league scorer of all time for FC Barcelona. In: goal.com . August 31, 2019, accessed September 1, 2019 . 
18. ↑ Sports: Resumen y crónica del FC Barcelona, ​​5 - Valencia, 2 de LaLiga Santander. September 14, 2019, accessed September 15, 2019 (Spanish). 
19. ↑ Ansu Fati: Record breaking kid does it again , fcbarcelona.com, September 17, 2019, accessed September 18, 2019.
20. ↑ Sancho only second: Joao Felix is ​​Golden Boy 2019 , kicker.de, November 27, 2019, accessed on November 27, 2019.
21. ↑ FC Barcelona improves Ansu Fati's contract and raises his buyout clause , fcbarcelona.com, December 4, 2019, accessed on January 14, 2020.
22. ↑ Sport: La rebelión de la Masia elimina al Inter de la Champions. December 10, 2019, accessed December 11, 2019 (Spanish). 
23. ↑ Ansu Fati: Spain want to fast-track Barça star into World Cup squad. August 29, 2019, accessed September 15, 2019 . 
24. ↑ Urgent application approved: Ansu Fati will soon open for Spain , kicker.de, September 20, 2019, accessed on September 23, 2019.
25. ↑ "Wunderkind" Fati gets Spanish passport in an urgent procedure , eurosport.de, September 20, 2019, accessed on September 23, 2019.
26. ↑ FC Barcelona: Ansu Fati should not play for Spain at the U17 World Cup , nau.ch, September 16, 2019, accessed on September 29, 2019.
27. ↑ A 'dangerous' World Cup for Ansu Fati and Barcelona , marca.com, September 25, 2019, accessed on September 29, 2019.
28. ↑ Ansu Fati left out of Spain's Under-17 World Cup squad , marca.com, October 9, 2019, accessed October 9, 2019.
29. ↑ 16-year-old Ansu Fati nominated for Spain's U21s , kicker.de, October 11, 2019, accessed on October 11, 2019.
30. ↑ The consequences of Ansu Fati's rapid rise at FC Barcelona: XXL nailing it , spox.com, October 16, 2019, accessed on October 21, 2019.
31. ↑ Enrique appoints Fati and Ferran Torres - No mask for Jordi Alba , kicker.de, August 20, 2020, accessed on August 20, 2020.