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Angel Rodriguez propelled to the top of the poster

2020-02-14T14:21:10.230Z


Getafe striker Angel Rodriguez is emphatically announced on the side of FC Barcelona. As the two teams meet this Saturday at 4 p.m., how did this 32-year-old player who knew more about the 2nd Spanish division than the Champions League come to the gates of one of the most ...


Football is teasing, and reveals many surprises. Angel Rodriguez, striker of Getafe, has been repeatedly announced for several days on the side of FC Barcelona as a medical joker after the injury of Ousmane Dembélé. He could also sign on Saturday, as soon as the league has officially authorized Barça to recruit a joker. However, the Spaniard is far from having the usual profile of Barcelona recruits: at 32, he especially knew the bottom of the La Liga classification, even the second division, he has only a few European Cup matches in his assets, has only one national selection in the U19 team ... Not really the kind of players, therefore, that we expect to see landed in a club that saw the biggest scorers go from Henry to Rivaldo.

Certainly the Catalan leaders are not really spoiled for choice, since they can only draw from the pool of players playing in Spain, and it is hard to imagine Atletico or Real releasing their best offensive elements to help Barcelona. Certainly also, they are looking above all for a player allowing them to finish the season at best, before Luis Suarez and Ousmane Dembélé (hopefully) return to form at the end of the season, and Barcelona does not recruit heavy in the summer transfer window.

But the Blaugranas certainly do not do in social, and for three seasons, Rodriguez has won in Getafe, to the point of becoming the fourth top scorer in the history of the club with 39 goals. A statistic that commands respect for a player trained in Tenerife in the Spanish second division, and who went through the Real Madrid reserve, Osasuna, Elche, Levante, then Zaragoza before landing in the suburbs of Madrid, each time free. In 2017, Rodriguez even saw his contract not be renewed by Zaragoza, after he said he preferred losing to Tenerife in the last match of the season, when the fate of his team for the end of the season was already fixed . His feelings for the team of his beginnings will have cost him his place.

This year Rodriguez has 9 league goals and he is no stranger to the recent excellent results from Getafe, surprising 3rd in Liga and qualified for the knockout stages of the Europa League, having already had a very good 2018- 2019 and having qualified the Azulones in the European Cup for the first time since 2009. Enough to dream by attacking (a priori substitution) at FC Barcelona and knowing, why not, his first minutes in the Champions League, 32 years old. Unless the attacker stays and simply sends his club in the group stage of C1 at the end of the season.

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Source: lefigaro

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