Bryan Zaragoza: Struggles & Lost Potential

The bet of Marco Garcés, the sports director, made sense. Celta, with its recent economic problems, appeared in Europe many years later and Bryan had to enter the equation as a leap in quality, not in vain is he an international, a player of excellent excellence who has shown very high peaks of performance although, it is true, also seasons in which he faded.

This lesser version has been shown at Celta, with a total absence of goals from a player who, due to his position, should contribute in that aspect. At the club there is some sadness for this lack of success, because the problem has never been attitude. Although publicly he may be somewhat noisy, from day one he fit well into the locker room and demonstrated both humility and a sense of humor. They define him as an easy-going and homely guy – he lives near the beach -, although also somewhat absent-minded.

Giráldez realized that last point and has done everything possible to pamper him. He has planned specific video work with him, because advanced tactical knowledge is not among the winger’s greatest qualities. That, in an author team that last year functioned like a very well-oiled machine, is a problem. Because Bryan tries and sometimes glimpses are seen, but his football anarchy and his alarming lack of nose for goal have been a fateful recipe for the club’s big bet to work.

He is only 24 years old, but the man from Malaga already accumulates many points on his flight card. There was something of a meteoric explosion, a huge match against Barcelona with Granada that triggered a perhaps excessive domino effect: the national team, Bayern… places where it later clashed, probably because it was not at that level yet.

It is possible that today he regrets that trip to Munich, a club to which he still belongs. His relationship with Tuchel was not fluid, according to the coach due to the winger’s lack of languages. He never believed that this was the problem, because you can play football very well being quiet. That explosion of Bryan’s will always remain with him, he can say that he has worn one of the most famous jerseys in world football, even if it was only for 171 minutes, but that hasty movement has also left him confused. A few months later he was already in Pamplona, ​​on loan at Osasuna, playing well but without exaggerating.

Bryan has a few months ahead of him to leave a good taste in his mouth in Vigo, because it is assumed that there will be no more for him in this club. He has talent, it is evident, but he has not yet found the environment in which everything fits together. Perhaps it has been a problem of context, also of inability to live up to expectations. Yes, Bryan may be a good footballer, but he has not yet found a team where he can prove to be what some thought they saw in him.