Does anybody know why this kid is wearing an Albion shirt?

[seagullsovergrimsby]

It could be that Javier Luis Garcia at 16 years old and born in Badalona (in the province of Barcelona) is in our U18 side. Barcelona and Real Madrid seem to be tracking a 15 year old born in the Canary Islands whose name is Luis Garcia Cadete. Wrong photo used ? The video in the report shows a player from AD Huracan.

 

[pishhead]

The Brighton mad link is referring to this Luis Garcia.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_García_Sanz

 

[AZ Gull]

Well, after a little research, this gets a bit more interesting.

This is Luis Garcia's twitter account (with a nice cover photo of the Amex).

And on June 30, he tweeted this:-

[TWEET]483615433938194432[/TWEET]

The text means "First day of training".

He is also following a few of our scholars on twitter.

And, perhaps most interesting of all, his agent tweeted this:-

[TWEET]490481702356389888[/TWEET]

The facebook link is a short video of Garcia (presumably) scoring in a match AT THE NEW TRAINING GROUND from about 40 yards out.

I'm going out on a limb and saying that this Spanish prodigy, much sought-after by the likes of Barcelona and Real Madrid, is a Brighton and Hove Albion scholar!

 

[algie]

That is a brilliant goal. Almost Beckham like

 

[DNB_Seagull]

Oscars relative? Garcia. Barcelona.

 

[AZ Gull]

Google is a brilliant, brilliant thing. Not only did it help me find the info posted above, but by googling a portion of text that appeared in the official site's story of the U-18s trip to Portugal, and by using the "cached" option on the results, it brought up a version that showed the squad list (that has now been removed, for some reason, from the story).

So for anyone else interested, here are our current scholars:-



Now, the next task is to discover who this Sanchez is .....

 

[Mowgli37]

The plot thickens....

 

[StillHateBellotti]

I will try and find out as related to one of the scholars.......unless anyone gets in there first....

 

[Gertrude]

Well lets sell him for millions and buy that Ulloa fella from Leicester City. Heard he is rather good.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

https://twitter.com/luis_Garciam10/status/490946694071459840

My pigeon Spanish suggest he said "brilliant week homie, hope to see you back soon".

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Just a few days ago as well...

 

[Gertrude]

Assuming he is with us as a standard youth and barca/Madrid are both eager to sign him, being just 15, could we actually get anything for him or could he just walk away?

 

[mistahclarke]

so what's the odds of there being at least two Luis Garcia's, one for the U18's and one playing in the Canary Islands?

And a reporter find the wrong one using google image?

 

[Papa Lazarou]

so what's the odds of there being at least two Luis Garcia's, one for the U18's and one playing in the Canary Islands?

And a reporter find the wrong one using google image?

I'd say it's quite likely.

 

[mistahclarke]

I'd say it's quite likely.

And I'd say more likely than us mysteriously acquiring a future superstar with no fan-fare, who suddenly has started attracting Barca and Madrid.

 

[Washie]

There is a Luis Garcia Tevenet who used yo play in the canary islands.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

so what's the odds of there being at least two Luis Garcia's, one for the U18's and one playing in the Canary Islands?

And a reporter find the wrong one using google image?

see my post #41 I think our LG was being ribbed by his agent over the other LG who is a year younger

 

[Washie]

Perhaps it is a typo and he was born in 1998 ?

No, that is the profile for Luis Garcia, ex-Liverpool player.

 

[Washie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYgXDV-XG54 Looks similar to the kid in the twitter photo.

 

[AZ Gull]

so what's the odds of there being at least two Luis Garcia's, one for the U18's and one playing in the Canary Islands?

And a reporter find the wrong one using google image?

I'd say it's quite likely.

Really? I'd say that possibility is zero.

Have a look at his twitter feed (the one with the large picture of the Amex, and where he tweeted a picture of the new training ground on June 30 stating "First day of training"). If you look through his tweets, you will see various references to AD Huracan (his club when he was in the Canary Islands). And a re-tweet of AD Huracan's tweet from November 18 last year, stating "Luis Garcia, a player who spends a week training with Liverpool FC".

I'm willing to wager £500 (proceeds to REMF) that "our" Luis Garcia is one-and-the-same as the sought-after "future superstar" that we appear to have acquired with no fan-fare.