Barcelona vs Inter: Marcus Thuram, from student to Barca threat

Thuram lived in Barcelona after the signing of his father in 2006, when he joined the Barca Esco

BARCELONA — Marcus Thuram will form on Wednesday offensive couple of the Inter from Milan Together with Lautaro Martínez in the visit to Barcelona of the first semifinal of the Champions League.

From the Inter confidence was transferred to Simone Inzaghi can count on Thuramrecovered from your lesion in the left adductor, to Face Barcelonain which it will be his first duel with the Barca team, whose shirt was the first one who wore in a football field.

Born in Parma, Marcus arrived in Barcelona from Turin in the summer of 2006, turning 9 and accompanying his father, Liliam Thuram, signed by Barça after the World Cup in which he was proclaimed runner -up with the French team. And it was in Barcelona where he joined FCBESCOLA, where he played for a year and a half.

He was not an isolated case. Other children of soccer players, former soccer players or coaches did it at that time such as the cases of Guardiola, Gudjohnsen, Amor, Vilanova and years later Lionel Messi, Gerard Piqué or Luis Suarez.

“I would not have opted to reach the level that has reached. At that time it was not the typical footballer who stands out for his talent but we must understand that something bad happened because it was new in the city, he did not know the language. And it was hard for him to acclimatize,” Xavi Pérez a few days ago, who was his coach at the Barça school those two seasons.

Open and outgoing, despite these idiomatic difficulties, the Barca Thuram did not used to play in tip and yes in the middle of the field, often animated by his mother on Saturdays in the morning in which the games were played on the land attached to the disappeared Miniestadi, next to the Camp Nou.

There he did go during the week to accompany him to the training Lilian Thuram, two or three times a week and in the afternoon, not being strange to see the Gallic defense conversation with the relatives of his son's companions, who without standing out for talent did he did not very late for his physical development, thanks to which he did in the matches.

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His was a short period “but intense” in Barcelona. He participated in a couple of tournaments being part of a selection of the mid-2007 Escola left to France to play at the Olympique de Neuilly-Sur-Seine. In 2010 he recruited the B Boulogne-Billancourt in Paris and two years later incorporated the Sochaux, where he began his professional career.

Already relocated as a striker and with an obvious potential, he was 17 when he debuted in the first team of the Sochaux, in the 2nd French division, and 19 when signing for the Guingamp, with which he stood out in a league cup tie to eliminate the PSG in January 2019.

Through half a million euros he signed the Guingamp. And for 9.7 million he sold to Borussia Mönchengladbach during the summer of 2019 after his name was related to Atlético de Madrid in Spain and Parma, which had just ascended to series A in Italy.

His performance in Germany, excellent, earned him the debut with the absolute selection of France and the consideration of being, unquestionably, known for himself, far from the figure of his father, until in the summer of 2023, after rejecting all the renewal offers offered by Borussia Dortmund, he signed as a free agent for the Inter, with which he accumulates 90 official matches.

Fachering 27 years, his 340 party as a professional in clubs will reach in Barcelona, ​​divided between Sochaux, Guingamp, Borussia and Inter, with which he is confident of celebrating a goal with the same effusivity that was doing it being a child and wearing the shirt of the same Barça who is confident in eliminating in this last round prior to the final of the Champions League in Munich.