With Girona in the Second Division and the desire to one day return to the First Division, there are very few footballers in the region who today participate in the highest category of state football. Joan Jordán (Regencós), Pere Pons (Sant Martí Vell) and David Juncà (Riumors), this one with a foot and a half in Montilivi, are an example. A meager figure, which multiplies when a step is lowered and has been increased this past weekend, with the release of two names that are eager to consolidate in the silver division, looking up for if one day the door opens to them. If Saturday came the turn to Pep chavarría (Figueres), on Sunday who was in luck Jofre Carreras (Girona).
The first, Chavarría, fulfilled his dream at the age of 22 after playing the last ones two seasons in Olot, in the Second Division B and where he arrived from Figueres, demonstrating skills and adding arguments to leave the category sooner rather than later. The left winger played more than fifty games under the orders of Raúl Garrido. At the beginning of the year and with several clubs following in his footsteps, the proposal that came to him from Zaragoza made him patxoca enough to tidy up the rest in the drawer. There had even been talk that Barça was following him to join his subsidiary, but that he was late as was the case with Tenerife, who moved when he had nothing left to do. Its incorporation by the Aragonese group, however, was not made official until last August. He has been committed for four seasons, until June 30, 2024.
Today I have fulfilled the dream of making my debut in professional football. I am happy for it and grateful to all those who have helped me get here. ?
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We leave annoyed for not getting the three points, but convinced that this is the way to go. ?????? pic.twitter.com/2T3jVnyiku— PEP CHAVARRIA PEREZ (@pepchavarria) September 26, 2020
At first it had been speculated that he could leave on loan as there was no room for the first team, but circumstances have barred his way out. He has a record in the first squad, he wears the number 15 and he released it last Saturday. He played the 90 minutes of Zaragoza’s draw against Las Palmas in La Romareda. “I have fulfilled my dream of making my professional football debut. I am happy for that and grateful to all those who have helped me get here. We left annoyed not to add the three points, but convinced that this is the path we must follow “, he wrote on social media shortly afterwards.
Youth and audacity
With Chavarría happier than anyone, the icing on the cake was expected on Sunday. The premiere, this time, of Jofre Carreras. At just 19, I was tasting the Second Division A in the hands of Espanyol. Vicente Moreno made him play the last half hour of the match that his team would end up winning at Oviedo thanks to a double by Raúl de Tomás. Born in Girona, the winger signed for Espanyol when he was a child. He has not moved from the white-and-blue club, but has been climbing the ladder until landing on the first team. This should not yet be their natural habitat. He has a record of the subsidiary and the idea is that this year he fires from time to time with Espanyol B in the Second Division B, although Moreno and the coaching staff know that they have him and that there are not too many alternatives in the squad. , so it would not be strange to see him another day in one of the matches of the first team.
.@JofreCarreras has made the dream of making his debut with the first team come true after arriving at the club in the Children’s category. Reward all the great work of our grassroots football! ????
Like plants! ??#RCDE | #PlanterRCDE pic.twitter.com/XV53R8SfZc
– RCD Espanyol de Barcelona (@RCDEspanyol) September 28, 2020
So far, much of the preseason has already been done with the big and is a regular in workouts. Overcoming a serious injury he suffered three years ago, he has renewed his contract until 2024 determined to become a major footballer. “I am very happy for my official debut with Espanyol in the Smartbank League and for the team’s victory. To continue working “, he posted on his personal Twitter account.
Very happy for my official debut with him @RCDEspanyol in @LaLiga SmartBank and for the victory of the team! To continue working!?? pic.twitter.com/LzRPVo1IKk
– Jofre Carreras (@JofreCarreras) September 28, 2020
Two Girona players who made their debut in the category this weekend, just when there were also two footballers from the region who were part of Girona’s starting eleven at the Molinón. Just a couple, Valery Fernández and Gerard Gumbau, jumped from the start on the lawn of the Molinón. The third, Àlex Granell, would jump to the field in the second half.
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