Tears of Sergi Canos at La Masia | Relief

Next Monday Sergi Canos He will face Barcelona for the first time in his career in a match that will be more than special for him. Valencia forwardHe trained in the lower categories of the Catalan club. before he was snatched up by Liverpool as one of their star players in the red academy. However, although this happened three seasons in La Masia of which he retains extremely emotional memories, not everything was so beautiful.

Sergi highlighted on CD Castellón from a very early age, so much so that he Valencia, Villarreal, Espanyol and FC Barcelona they knocked on his door. Even as a child, he dreamed of playing for the Mestalla club, and it was quite normal that he would have ended up there, but Barça emissaries convinced him to visit the Mestalla club. Masiaexplained the personal and professional growth project… Both Sergi and his parents were convinced of this..

At the age of 12, Canos dared to leave his home and family, despite being a very family-oriented guy, and left Nules to live in the prestigious Macia. Result? Tears and the desire to leave. After a couple of weeks of living and training there,Sergei called his father crying to pick him up from there, he did it for several days, during which he finished training and just wanted to go home to his family, not so much because of football, but because He didn’t look ready to be alone.. His father calmed him down and began to dissuade him that he would go, that if it got worse, he would definitely go… But he never went.

Ultimately, Sergi was grateful: “If my son had called me to go, I would have gone where I needed to go to pick him up, but he didn’t, he knew he needed to overcome this situation. Not so much to be a football player, but to become a man, If you don’t face bad situations and overcome them, you will never grow. He didn’t think I would become a football player. “But he wanted me to remain calm and believe that I could overcome this problem.”– the player explained in an interview.

The truth is that his father was not wrong. Sergi eventually won in Barcelona, ​​becoming one of the few cadets in its history who managed He scored 5 goals in the match and his actions were such that Liverpool caught him for their subsidiary when I was only 16 years old. In the end life brought him back home to Valencia.to fulfill his life’s dream, to play where he always wanted, and next Monday against the opponent who coached him.