The wolves caused mixing by moving for Celta Vigo Youngster Fair Lopez. Special talent, the 21-year-old player has left many supporters of the Spanish club in anger about his upcoming exit. But maybe Lopez has always been destined for returning to England.
It is right, switching to Molineux for reported 19.5 million pounds will not be his first taste of the English game. The term here only 14 continues to resonate in the school in Suffolk where he studied – and Bacton United ’89, the club in which he was training with adults.
Ryan Ovens was the trainer on the side, and then competed at 1. The Pyramid of the English League, when the sessions joined a small young Spaniard. “He was a different gravity. Just a completely different level,” says Owens Ski Sports.
Lopez enjoyed the laliga break season for Celta Vigo
Just a boy, he wasn’t allowed to play any real games. “But he would join us for shots and small games. It would spend the whole training training putting the ball into the upper corner of the network and taking into account players.”
Owens adds: “He had a wicked sense of humor. We had one player who would again and again and again would like to wind it. On the way home in the car, he would just laugh.” He pauses. “That child is now playing against Real Madrid.”
It is quite a story, the one that came because of it, because the Owens’ friend Paul Grainger – “Little Legend at the local fund scene” brought Lopez together to Boton in hopes of being added in his football education. Finding fresh challenges for a guy proved a tricky.
Grainger trained at Finborough, a private school near Staine in which he enrolled in the fall of 2018. years. “It was done in order to provide new experiences for him and to help him and help her language skills” “Greenger says Ski Sports.
The plan was for Lopez, but talent within the Celta Vigo Academy, to train twice a week and Norwich City. But it wasn’t always easy. “He used to get a taxi in Ipswich, and then the train to Norwich. Sometimes he had to see me to get his taxis.”
This is because Grainger had a double role as a school accountant. When Lopez became a little disappointed in Norwich – in the famous trope of English football, they “told him that it was too small” – the boy asked Grainger for additional sessions for one on one.
“It was that his level is prevented so that he would still be able when he returned to Vigo.” And what did he think of young lopez? “I saw some of the best players in the world playing football. I’ve never seen football like him. He was literally amazing.
“From the first day I knew there would be a superstar.”
Grainger is full of stories. “I remember trying to make him do in a silly in a thunder, which I would think it would be hard. I’d catch them all that I folded it for Netball post, so there was no follow up and still did it.
“I was smoked with what he could do with football.
“We would make a little shock with a small goal like a wall, bend him into the big goal. He would put 30 in a row. It was his vision. And he would be hemmed.
Galicia is not a stranger on the slipper, so it didn’t put Lopez. “I was out in a lush rain with him three hours once, the shells of socks in the end, it was wet. It wasn’t a chance to stop. He had an incredible commitment. Hunger for perfection.”
Lopez in action for Celta Vigo against Zvezda Real Madrid
And a fierce appetite too. “I played him in the cup, where it was practically all schools, I took it with a minute to go so that it would get its own single applause because we won 7-1, and we won 7-1 and have achieved them five.
“Instead, he looked at me and said,” Why did you take me off? There’s a minute left, I could get another goal “. No wonder Grainger decided to take Lopez to see his friends in the hope to provide a solid test against adults. There was no success.
“We thought it would be driven away,” Grainger remembers. “The first thing he did in the field was a return nut someone, landed them next to them and putting the cross in that they achieved. All adults were just standing there and watched each other.”
Since the replacement for BACTON became racing for another reason – experience to warm up with Wonderkid. “Nobody wanted to be in the page on Saturday. You would spend the whole game watching the ball fly between the legs.”
You BACTON players will feel a little less shocked that a little boy canceled them. Lopez made his debut with Laliga in December, three days after he scored a goal in Copa Del Rei twice. He has played in Atletico Madrid, Barcelona and Real Madrid since then.
“It’s a pretty strange thing when you get a message with someone who just played against Real Madrid in Bernabe,” says Grainger, laughter. “We’ve never lost touch. Most weekends we change the game messages. I look almost all of them.”
For Grainger, pride is obvious. It’s almost seven years since he took him to Carrov Road to look at him in England U21, and put it through the steps of those cold and wet weeks – not asking a penny for what she still considers privilege.
“Why did I imagine that you were in cars and someone said you could take care of their Lamborghini or Ferrari? Suddenly, you have a child. Suddenly you have a child who can enter.”
It was so good past that Grainger has confided to watch Lopez’s little brother when he came to England. He still trains youth fist, but not as much as it is once. “From Fernand, I only work with really good,” Grainger explains.
“He cares about people,” Paul Grainger says from his friend Fer Lopez
“I have a young attacker who reached the trial. Fernando just got out of the field in Real Madrid – literally. And he said:” How does Alfie continue? “I told him about the trial and sent him a video message. Of course, they ate a child. It’s a guy’s sign.”
In addition to his obvious gifts, it is this emotional maturity that helps convince those who know it to get to the top. “He’s so intelligent.” Lopez is studying to the level of law and business administration. His father is a notebook, his mother is a psychologist.
“The whole family is absolutely fantastic people.” After attending British School about Castro, just outside Vigo, nor the language would certainly be a problem. “He speaks better English than I do.” And that little boy is 14 years old now stands 6F2 tall.
That is why too much should not be read in his relatively commissioned debut in Laliga. In Celta, they realized that it would take time, which is why they protected its development. “He had late growth, that’s all,” Grainger explains. “He has filled now.”
Included for great things a long time as 2022. Celta Legend Iago Aspas has since been interest from the largest clubs of Spain, as well as Juventus in Italy. His profile has grown significantly from breaking into the first team, his talent is immediately obvious.
Viewed as a successor to Aspas, used in his role on the right. “They often play him on the right, so he can cut out of there. But he can play central midfields, no. 10, wide in the front, rather nowhere in the middle and front.”
He was excellent against Atletico, he scored on Mallorca and called the triumph opener of 3-0 due to Villarreal. The boy who enjoyed Suffolk playgrounds now lights up Spain. “He can sit five players on the back of his skill.”
His quality is illustrated by the fact that on average a successful ball is more often than any other player in Laliga. “He has a vision to separate the team.” Its dribblin skills are also uniform, only sail among their opponents.
Lopez puts its superior dribbling skills to hours of work putting with graingeng, although man himself does not deserve. “The best thing I taught him is that if you run the ball from the game, you have to shout, ‘Have!” It’s still doing it now. “
A little of that English influence already there.
Now they find it in British media as possible replacements for the leaving Matheus Cunha on Vulves. The club themselves are borrowed to diminish those comparisons. This is a young perspective that will surely need to adjust for a while.
But Lopez’s long-term potential is unlimited. “I’ve already been to a few bookmakers to see if I could bet on him, playing for Spain at the World Cup in 2026. years,” Grainger recognizes. “I have no doubt that it will become an international football player. Nothing is missing.”
As for Ovens, the former Bacton boss, it’s still fun that the world now sees what he did before all that year. “It reminds me of Riyadh Mahres. The ball just stands for the legs.” He adds laughter: “From Bacton to Lalige to Prime Minister League.”
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