En-Nesyri y la Academia de Mohamed VI
Youssef En-Nesyri (Fez, 1997) is the most fashionable striker in Spain and one of the up-and-coming talents in Europe. The Sevilla striker scored all three goals in the match against Real Sociedad and took the ball with a smile on his face. It was a time to enjoy because the troubles of football leave scars like the final of the Super Cup against Bayern and that mistake in the hand to hand against Neuer.
En-Nesyri he had to step forward and become a striker for Sevilla. The coronavirus crisis has erased any operation from the winter market. Sevilla is not going to get nine and De Jong does not like Lopetegui. The Moroccan forward has started to work and he has already scored 18 goals in 50 matches with the Andalusian team, four of them in the Champions League.
Monchi did not hesitate to pay the 20 million euros requested by Leganes for the striker in 2019. It was the biggest sale of the team pepinero the same month of January in which the Barça took to him to Braithwaite and the lack of goal ended up sending to Second division to the Madrid equipment. In Madrid, En Nesyri scored 15 goals in the 53 games he played from 2016 to 2019. Before that, Leganés had paid Malaga six million euros for the Moroccan player who had scored five goals in 41 matches at the age of just 21. Juvenil A and Atlético Malagueño were the teams where Youssef En-Nesyri started to get to know Spanish football. At the age of 18 years and 30 days he landed on the Costa del Sol from the Mohammed VI Academy in Morocco for 125,000 euros and linked to the representation agency Starbox. Among the clauses of that contract was one by which the academy would enter part of the future transfer. And so it was that the departure of En Nesyri al Leganés brought one million euros to the coffers of the sports institution.
#DestinMálaga
The Malaga team has been able to sustain their battered coffers with agreements like the one they have with the Mohammed VI Academy. A fishing ground that recruits 80% of the best players in the country for the good work of the recruitment department. Then they end up in teams in France or in the ranks of Spanish clubs like Málaga C.F itself, which puts them in the Second Division showcase to sell them later for a much higher price. A gateway to Europe that shows the great work that Morocco does with football and that is already reflected in the senior team and in its lower categories.
#AcademyMVI
The Mohammed VI Academy has brought order to Moroccan football. En Nesyri himself launched himself into Europe on his own account and his journey in London did not end well. The academy participates in important tournaments so that leading teams in Europe notice their players. They facilitate the scouts' work because they bring the best of Morocco. Chelsea noticed En Nesyri's physical qualities and invited him to try out for a month. The cold, the culture and the language ended his dream and he returned to Salé to try it at the Academy that King Mohammed VI promoted in 2009 to train a new generation of footballers. There is a Spaniard, Xavi Bernal, who has been training the U-19 players since 2016. The coronavirus forced them to close their facilities for almost two months, but they have already resumed their work with young Moroccans.
#In training
Only 50 players in the formative stage between 13 and 18 years old are allowed. Talents whom they protect and on whom they work both on the sports level, with eight weekly sessions, and on the academic level so that they have training. Young talents compete above their age. They anticipate stages to better prepare them. This non-profit school is supported by the Alawite crown and private funds. The players who train in its modern facilities get projection to compete in European professional leagues. Those who do not make the leap to Europe compete in the national league and have already achieved promotion to the second division.
#LionsDelAtlas
Nabil El Zhar and Amrabat were En Nesyri's godparents in his first steps in Spain. Those who spoke to him about the special meaning of playing with the Atlas Lions, as the Moroccan soccer team is known. In Nesyri he had already played with the U-20 seven games with a total of three goals. A small step of two games for the under-23 until in 2016 he made his senior debut against Albania in a friendly that ended 0-0. Since then he has scored 11 goals in 34 games.
Sergio Piernas is the Morocco Under-23 coach and affirms that the academy is “one of the important references for the national team. Among the local players that I select there is a significant percentage from the Mohammed VI Academy ”.
His most memorable goal was scored on 25 June 2018 at the Kaliningrad stadium in front of 35,000 spectators. In the 81st minute he headed a ball into the net from David De Gea. A powerful leap that left Ramos on the ground and the Spanish goalkeeper looking at the ball's path into the top corner. That World Cup, which is a sad memory for Spain, was the one that gave the final push to the North African striker.
Lopetegui watched that game at home and as the new Real Madrid coach. Mistreated by Rubiales hours before his debut against Portugal. He took note of that striker with the 19 on his back who years later would become his favourite goal scorer in Seville. Football. The life.