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Catalan sports paper Sport gives today an introduction to the seven Juvenil A players who could be promoted to Barcelona Atlètic:


Marc Bartra
Powerful centre-back, good positing, strong in the air.

Rubén Rochina
Natural born scorer. Opportunistic and a good free kick taker.

Martín Montoya (picture, on the right)
Fast and technical right back defender, who can create danger going forward.

David Alvarez "Polaco" (picture, on the left)
Hard-working and ambitious player who can play in midfield and as left back defender.

José Luis Gómez
Right winger, good at one-on-one situations, scores easily.

Ilie Sánchez
Midfielder who reads the game well.

Sergio Maestre
Physical midfielder, good left foot.


note:
Dalmau, Planas and Riverola started the pre-season with Barcelona Atlètic (Dalmau already started his pre-season one week earlier with the first team) but have now returned to Juvenil A. Romeu will join in today and it's still not clear what will happen with Muniesa and Jonathan. So in the end, ten players could be promoted from Juvenil A to Barcelona Atlètic this season.

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Catalan paper Sport claims seven Juvenil players will have a pre-season test with Barça Atlètic. They include Bolanos, Carles Planas, Polaco, Ilie, Jose Luis, Maestre, and Riverola Bartra.

If the trial is successful, the player would stay with Barça Atlètic for the upcoming season. Otherwise, the player could continue for Barcelona in Juvenil A or would have to seek a new club in case he cannot return to the Juvenil A team because he's too old.

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Catalan sports paper Sport claims that seven Juvenil A players will be promoted to Barcelona Atlètic next season:

central defender Marc Muniesa (17), left back defender Planas (18), defensive midfielder Oriol Romeu (17), midfielder Polaco (19), attacking midfielder Jonathan dos Santos (19 - picture), winger José Luis (18) and centre forward Rubén Rochina (18).

The paper claims that Barcelona manager Josep Guardiola is closely following Muniesa and Jonathan, the brother of former Barcelona player Giovani. Besides the seven mentioned players, three other players would start the pre-season with the B-team and might stay depending upon their performances: right back defender Martín Montoya (18), midfielder Maestre (18) and wing attacker Ilie (18).

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Eleven Juvenil players are currently taking part in the pre-season of Barcelona Atlètic (previously known as Barcelona B).

Depending on their performance during the pre-season, on the future transfers of the team and on which B players who are now doing the pre-season with the first team will stay with the first team, Barcelona Atlètic coach Luis Enrique will later decide which of those player will continue the season with his team.

This is the list of the eleven players:

Juvenil A goalkeeper Rubén Miño (19)
Juvenil A goalkeeper Jordi Masip (19)
Juvenil A right back defender Martín Montoya (17)
Juvenil A centre and right back defender Marc Blasco (19)
Juvenil A central defender Marc Muniesa (16)
Juvenil A defensive midfielder Andreu Fontàs (18)
Juvenil B defensive midfielder Oriol Romeu (16)
Juvenil A central midfielder Polaco (18)
Juvenil A attacking midfielder Thiago Alcántara (17)
Juvenil A attacking midfielder Iago Falqué (18)
Juvenil A centre forward Rubén Rochina (17)

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