Guinea-Bissau born winger Ansu Fati wrote his name into the history books on Saturday by becoming Barcelona’s youngest goalscorer in La Liga history.
The teenager, who recently became the second-youngest player to appear for Barcelona, achieved the feat scoring a goal with a header against Osasuna. The striker, at the age of just 16 years and 304 days, now leads the list of most precocious goalscorers in a Barca shirt.
The winger only made his first-team debut in the 5-2 win against Betis in the previous league fixture, playing 12 minutes of the second half in the win at Camp Nou. After making a good impression, Ernesto Valverde included him in the squad for the trip to El Sadar and he appeared at half time as a substitute replacing Nelson Semedo. Just six minutes into the second half when the Catalonia-based club was trailing 1-0, Ansu headed home Carles Perez’s cross to level the scores at 1-1. The match ended with a 2-2 draw.
At 16 years and 304 days, Ansu Fati took over the record from Bojan Krkic who scored against Villarreal in 2007 at the age of 17 years and 53 days. In third place comes none other than Lionel Messi after his goal against Albacete in 2004 at the age of 17 years and 312 days.
Along with this, Ansu Fati became the third on the all-time list of youngest goalscorers in La Liga. The Barca youngster is behind leader Fabrice Olinga who scored at the age of 16 years and 98 days for Malaga in 2010 and Iker Muniain who scored for Athletic Club in 2009 at the age of 16 years and 289 days.