The Barcelona staff was shocked when Marc Guiu scored the team’s first goal in just 33 seconds.

He has been working with the first team every day since Robert Lewandowski hurt his ankle and has shown everyone at the club what he can do. He will be 18 years old on January 6, 2019.

It’s not his strong suit to drop deep and run the gaps like most Barcelona number nines do. He needs to be on the last defender’s shoulder and wait for the right pass, which is what he did on Sunday night. He hit the right time during his run to stay onside. Then he moved his body apart, took the ball off his feet with one touch, and put it past Spain’s best goalie, Una}I Simon. The game against Athletic Bilbao was won, and Guiu played in his first Champions League game on Wednesday.

The young player is a more classic number nine than Barcelona usually has because he scored so many goals with the under-18s. He quickly moved up to the club’s B-team, which is why Xavi picked him when Lewandowski got hurt. The boss at Barcelona told him that he would have a chance. Even the forward-thinking manager of Barcelona didn’t think it would happen so fast and go over so well with him.

Guiu joined the team in 2013 from a youth club in Sant Celoni, which is about an hour’s drive northeast of Barcelona. When he was seven years old, he stood out. Since then, he has been steadily getting better. In February of this year, his team played Andres Iniesta’s old team, Vissel Kobe, in a practice game. It was his first job as a worker.

He has already scored five goals this season, which caught the eye of Rafa Marquez, the coach of Barcelona’s B team. He recently put him in a game against Nastic in Spain’s third-tier league. Xavi put him on his team for the game against Granada before the break for the summer.

People from all over the world have also noticed him because he got eight goals in 12 games for the Under-17s. As a U-17 player, he got four goals, the same number as his close friend Lamine Yamal. They were both on the field at the same time on Sunday when he scored the goal that helped Barcelona beat Athletic Club.

Guiu played in the Champions League for the first time the next night. In the 75th minute, he came on for Joao Felix as they beat Shakhtar Donetsk 2-1. 

Barcelona’s teachers like how he always tries to learn from more experienced players. Center-back Ronald Araujo, in particular, has taken him under his wing since he was given the chance to work with the first team. His dad, Manel, told him after the game, “I’m the happiest man in the stadium.” “We had no idea this would happen in a million years.” His mom, his sister, and I were all crying. 

“Eleven seasons of hard work have led to this moment.” He has been doing a great job. I will hug him when he gets home and tell him to keep it up.

There will be no more changes. Before he came off the bench at the Lluis Companys Stadium, 47,000 people were following him on Instagram. He has more than $900,000 now. 

The defender Gaizka Mendieta, who used to play for Barcelona and Spain and was watching the game on TV, said, “He won’t sleep tonight.”

They might need him more going forward after how he played in the second half against Athletic Club.