They are the present and future of Barça. The Mexican and the Linyola represent the new batch of players who look forward to the fans culés

In Bojan and Giovani they had fulfilled the wish that this year called on the night of December 31, 2006. Although it was expected a few months, finally became reality in mid-year. Both recall the 2007 as the year in which they became the first professional football team Barça , which came looking for many years since football basis. In January still playing with the Barça B , then coached by Quique Costas , but with the start of the new season, Rijkaard called up .


They have seized their chance and they are hoping to make history with a team that has lived a year to forget at the collective level, but that with these two players, the future is assured. Bojan and Giovani are large and, with them, will grow Barça.

The two have wanted to wish a happy new year 2008 to all readers SPORT, with those who expect to hold as many titles as possible. Despite the fact that the year ended with a defeat to Real Madrid , both are convinced that the team has the capacity to reverse the situation and cut the League in the seven-point difference separating them white Team. In addition, they expect to go ahead in the Champions League, which measured the Celtic Glasgow in the second round, and in the Copa del Rey , which is the first tournament of the year with the second leg of sixteenth before the Alcoyano this Wednesday at 18.00 hours at the Camp Nou. The front Linyola does while playing in the Youth Division of Honor. Indeed, in November 2005 was when I went to Barça B, which did not comply or a season before taking the leap into the Camp Nou. But the speed of burning stages Bojan is vertigo. S iempre has played with older players and he has also shown that it has room in the first template.

The future is theirs. In an era in which fans reflect on whether it had finished a cycle or even computer for a while there, which everybody agrees is that there are players to be quiet. Bojan is only 17 years, while Giovani has 18 , an age at which most players active in youth category, while they already codean with the best athlete on the planet. His precocity has caught by surprise more than one, but it has been blessed by all.

The 2008 should be the year of two players to the responsibility that weighs them not because they are accustomed to being leaders of the teams who have played. Bojan carries a lifetime pulling the cart in football basis . In all categories for which has risen since he came to 9 years has marked decisive goals, which give parties, matches and titles. Now into the first team, and despite the fact that responsibility for the moment, the other must take the Linyola gaining weight gradually and not wasted even one second that he da Frank Rijkaard . Every time he enters the field lía, leaving details available for cracks.

The same happens with Giovani . The Mexican started the season playing many minutes and was alternating with Bojan as one of the first parts in the latter parts. His progression was cut because of the ankle injury he suffered in El Collao, who kept several weeks in dry dock. Giovani was prepared to return to power and did so. Before the Stuttgart in the Champions , scored his first goal with the official jersey blaugrana. In Mestalla was one of the architects of the great victory by 0-3 giving great assistance to Gudjohnsen to close the scoreboard and enjoyed his first classic before the Madrid in which the goal was an equalizer in their boots with an auction touched Pepe and left out by a whisker.

Bojan and Giovani are going to be more and the fresh air, along with Messi and Iniesta , which lifted the morale of culés in some Christmas bitter defeat versus whites . His progression leads us to think that in 2008 can give many joys and be players of the year. Since it joined the first team on the stage of Scotland have not stopped giving giant steps. In just half a year have earned the admiration of fans and respect of his colleagues and opponents. Nobody takes Bojan and Giovani as two simple youth to start their careers, but two major players already Indeed a gap between the best.