Gai Assulin, greenish-white hope

Long ago in Santander football is not the central theme as Racing Santander is concerned, and when this happens at a club means a bad omen: in the case of mountain club led to the descent to the second division. The ball and the green gave way to offices and office furniture, and the players and coaching staff gave center stage to Syed Ali, Pernia, Montalvo, trustee in bankruptcy ... Today the club is engaged in an economic disaster and social, Syed Ali continues to own 98% of the shares and, while ensuring that the racing is like a son to him (sic), the fact is that it is very poorly served. A few weeks ago the club formed a new management team with Angel Lavin as chairman and Joseph Fields or Manolo Saiz as new board members approved by the team of Indian businessman. Like it or so, the fact is that they are responsible for taking this forward and try to ship not flying more adrift. With scarce resources are trying to put together a competitive team that can fight in the fields of category silver, and one of the most exciting names that have arrived in the Bay of Santander is the Gai Assulin Israeli footballer, 21, who a few seasons ago was one of the most promising of La Masia.

Assulin comes from Manchester City, where he completed contract and signed for one season. This is a fast left-winger with overflow, quality and great Dodge who has spent seven years in the ranks at Barcelona where he breathed the kind of football that there is customary. Came to his first team debut at the hands of Guardiola Cup: was in 2009, a year earlier, with only 17, she had debuted with the national team of Israel. But he did not have confidence in the subsidiary Luis Enrique Blaugrana and his career in the club began to go wrong. Some say that it was believed and others who had too much hurry to get to the first team. The fact is that Manchester City came and took the player free in the summer of 2009. Your adventure in England has not been fruitful: injuries, severe competition and low confidence Mancini led him to be loaned to Brighton, the second English, coached by former player Gustavo Poyet Zaragoza. When I had almost forgotten for Spanish football, will have on the Racing a new opportunity to vindicate his football.

When we hear the story of the Israeli player remember is inevitable Giovani Dos Santos. The Mexican had more relevance in the first team, but their paths, adventures and misadventures are very similar. One thing is clear: Racing the bet comes out as he came out of the Tottenham player will have made a great investment. In the club Betis will be without doubt one of the references in a season in which transfers are not flashy and will have to deposit a lot of confidence in the quarry. They will be trained by Juan Carlos Unzue, former goalkeeper and goalkeeping coach of Barcelona, ​​with little experience on the bench and also professes the guidelines of La Masia. So, Assulin can easily find its place as Longás, from the Gimnastic and who also happened, though briefly, for the youth ranks at Barcelona. It is in this sense that is working Unzué: play on the wings, as the star ball, pressure at the exit of the rival. Even the goalkeeper Mario, presumed owner, is working the game with his feet. Will this bet in a category as the second division?

Will not be easy and will require patience. The club lives uncomfortable economic times and has been forced to sell off a large part of its most important effect not just see a dollar in terms of transfers: the essential was to get rid of tabs unassumable his players. So, players like Toño, Alvaro Adrian Diop have already found its place in top teams, and others like Arana, Torrejon and schism have been implicated in a ERE . The quarry, which always worked well and free of contract players as the same Assulin, Dorca, Dani Longás or Baptist, or transferred as Rochelle (Sport) and Yuste (Granada), plus some outstanding signing of a striker as the will makers try to guide the ship to fruition in what will be the year of its centennial. Some say the best thing for the club would recreate themselves in a lower category, but if Racing Santander has minimal opportunity to fight for promotion must be taken to seize it.

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