A Sebastian Fernandez Senior can’t fit the words in the sentence. Father’s pride boils. He says that when his son Sebastián Fernández Júnior signed his first contract with Málaga CF this Wednesday, the first thing he did was go to the Cuevas de El Palo to hug his grandparents. Manuel Fernández and Carmen Reyes, almost in their thirties, were excited. Manuel remembered when at the end of the 80s he took his son to San Félix every day to break his boots scoring goals. Years later, his grandson, the youngest of the Basti, will wear blue and white next season to play with the second-year child from Málaga. These are days of palms and happiness in El Palo. The saga continues in Martiricos.
Little Basti thought it was a joke when his father told him. In his genes he not only harbors talent and goals. Also innocence. And that the 12-year-old boy already knew himself followed by Málaga since he was in the youngest of El Palo. Has come to recruitment tournaments with the blue and white in Lleida or Alicante, every time he faced them he marked him, and a recent recruitment match for children born in 2007 in the Annex generated a consensus among those responsible for La Academia: ‘Mini Basti’ was Rosaleda meat. It represents what Duda and Manolo explained days ago: local talent who wants to play for Málaga because he feels from here. “You’ve earned it,” they told him when he discovered what was deeper inside Martiricos’ ‘welcome’. He has been watching the outsider from almost the incubator because he has been a partner since he has used the ball, as Manuel Alcántara said.
Little Basti’s story is reminiscent of his father’s, which began to build its legend a couple of years older but with common denominators. Juanito He signed him for Málaga in a children’s tournament and kept him integrated into the club despite breaking his tibia and fibula right after. The genius of Fuengirola had an eye and patience with his namesake El Palo. And the play went well for him because Basti, after fully recovering in the hands of Mayorga and Souviron under the protection of the entity, later broke it with San Félix, Pepe Sánchez raised him to the subsidiary and then Ben Barek made him debut with the first equipment when he was not old enough to drive. The rest is history. Legend.
His successor is not such a pure center forward, although he has led the scoring rankings of the different categories in which he has played until Keko, his coach at Puerto Malagueño, successfully relocated him to the left wing to take advantage of his diagonals to foot changed. Of light physique, they say that he is fast, skilled and with a good ‘dible’, as we say in Malaga without fear of being wrong. He is a small Basti, with a lot to grow, learn and enjoy, but with football skills and blue and white factory values that have pushed him to Málaga. Yes, these are days of palms and happiness in El Palo, of black tears of pride. The Basti saga continues in Martiricos.
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