Pablo López Gómez (Cartagena, 2006) will play in the U-17 World Cup that will be held in Indonesia from November 10 to December 2. The young player from Cartagena, who is standing out a lot this season in Valencia’s Honor Division youth team, has entered a list of 21 players in which Barcelona forward Marc Guiu also appears, who debuted last Sunday with the first team Blaugrana scoring the winning goal against Athletic 33 seconds after entering the field.
Pablo López is a quality and overflowing winger who has shone when he has had an opportunity with the U-16, U-17 or even U-18. He always receives the ball well faced and knows how to drive it and generate danger quite easily. He is left-footed and has 3 goals this season in a Valencia team that leads Group 7 of the Youth Division of Honor, the same group in which Cartagena is located. In fact, in the 5-0 that the Valencians beat the Albinegros in Paterna on the second day of the league, he scored the first goal of the afternoon.
The kid grew up in La Manga. He trained as a player in the ranks of FC Cartagena, in Ciudad Jardín. Levante soon noticed him and signed him. However, in the granota quarry he did not quite find his place and left for Patacona (Alboraya). Valencia immediately signed him and last January he trained for the first time with the Ché first team. His progress is being meteoric and this U-17 World Cup in Indonesia could be his definitive springboard to the elite of Spanish football.
Framed in Group B, the national team will face Canada, Mali and Uzbekistan in the group stage of the great World Cup event that begins on Friday, November 10. It is a tournament that will have 24 participating teams from six confederations (UEFA, Conmebol, CAF, AFC, OFC and Concacaf). It is the only World Cup that Spain has yet to win in the men’s category.
Blaugrana majority
José Lana, under-17 coach, has drawn up a list in which Barça youth players are the majority. There are eight: Pau Prim, Héctor Fort, the aforementioned Marc Guiu, Pau Cubarsí, Andrés Cuenca, Marc Bernal, Quim Junyent and Juan Hernández. There are four from Real Madrid: Óscar Mesa, Roberto Martín, Daniel Yáñez and Paulo Iago. The list is completed by Francisco Pedro Arbol (Granada), Izan Merino (Málaga), Jon Martín (Real Sociedad), Marcos González (Celta), Daniel Muñoz (Atlético Madrileño), Peio Huestamendia (Basconia), Igor Oyono (Villarreal) and the Pablo López and Raúl Jiménez (Valencia) from Cartagena.
The big absences compared to the last European in the category are the Barça player Lamine Yamal; Javi Fernández, from Bayern; and Alejandro Granados, from Bruges. All three were starters in the Hungarian tournament and with the exception of Lamine Yamal, who is already in senior national team dynamics, both Granados and Fernández, starters in their respective affiliate teams, were expected to attend the World Cup. The surprises are Paulo Iago and Andrés Cuenca, who are a year younger than their teammates.
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