Gerard Deulofeu is the next talent which has risen from the Barca youth side, the Winger has leap on to the scene with his incredible performances for Barcelona’s B Team. The young Spaniard was born in Riudarenes in Catalonia where he caught the eye of Barcelona’s scouts and was signed for there La Masia at age 9.
Still registed for the Barcelona’s junior squad he made his first appearance for Barca’s B side in there 4-1 victory over Cordoba CF on the 2nd of March 2011 replacing Eduard Oriol in the 75th minute. He was then later on in the season named in the Barca first team for there game against Real Sociedad.
but eventually did not leave the bench in a 1–2 away loss. On 3 August, he made his Barcelona first-team debut, in a 1–4 friendly loss against C.D. Guadalajara; three days later, against Club America, he assisted Keita in the 90th minute of a 2-0 win. On 16 September Deulofeu scored his first goal as a senior, in a 1–2 loss at Hercules CF On 29 October he made his first official appearance with the main squad, replacing David Villa in the 63rd minute of a 5–0 league home success against RCD Mallorca.
Deulofeu has also been influential at youth level for Spain, coming runners up in Spain’s Under 17′s UEFA Championship campaign later rising to the Under 19′s where he won the UEFA Under 19 Championship also finishing with the golden boot for that tournament.
Deulofeu has made 62 appearances for Barcelona B scoring 27 times, he is one of Barca’s most promising young talents and will know doubt be placed in there senior
squad for next year campaign if he continues to perform for Barca B.
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Marks out of 10:
Speed: 8 out of 10
Vision: 8 out of 10
Finishing: 8 out of 10
Tackling: 5 out of 10 (Position based)
Positioning: 9 out of 10
Passing: 8 out of 10
Creativity: 10 out of 10
With Deulofeu unpredictability of the ball this makes him a force when attacking with the ball for Barca B.
Current Ability out of 100: 87%
Potential Ability out of 100: 90%
Current Value: 5 million
Potential Value: 12 million
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