Saturday 3 May 2008

Youth: Gai Assulin

Catalan sports papers El Mundo Deportivo and Sport claim that Barcelona B left wing attacker Gai Assulin (17) will be part of the first team squad as of next season. The good performances of Bojan and Giovani would have convinced the Barcelona technical staff to not needless lengthen the stay of talented youth academy players with Barcelona B (read more here).

Gai Assulin was born in Israel and came to Barcelona four years ago. Since the end of last year, Gai is playing with Barcelona B in the Spanish fourth division. Last september he made his senior debut with the first team in the semi-final of the Copa Catalunya. Six weeks ago, he made his debute with the senior Israeli national team. In August last year, Gai signed a three year contract with Barcelona, that includes a buyout clause of 20 million euro°.

Read more:
Youth: Jonathan Dos Santos
Youth: Miralem Pjanic (Metz)
Youth: Jozy Altidore (Red Bull New York)

Read more on Gai Assulin here

2 comments:

pep said...

° 20 million euro =

32 million us dollar
16 million british pound

Anonymous said...

I don't know much about this guy but he sounds very promising if they are comparing him to Bojan and Giovani! our youth academy is amazing

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