Who is Yéremy Pino, the young promise that shines in Villarreal?

The winger from the Canary Islands, Yéremy Pino, has made a place in Unai Emery's plans after excelling in the youth academy of the club that convinced him to reject Barça.

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In recent decades, Villarreal has become one of the most important clubs in Spain and also in Europe after reaching its first continental final in 2021. All this is thanks to the splendid work with the youth academy in which talents such as Santi Cazorla, Bruno Soriano, Manu Trigueros, and Gerard Moreno have flourished. The last pearl of the groguet factory has a name and his name is Yéremy Pino, born in Las Palmas in 2002.

A winger with skill and goal

Since the 2020/21 season, it has been worth to make a place for himself under Unai Emery to finish his first season with 7 goals and 1 assist in 36 games but only in just over 1300 minutes.

Despite being right-footed, Yéremy prefers to play on the left so he can get inside and look for the goal thanks to his powerful shot. He does not shy away from one on one or the possibility of assisting, but like other great wingers who played on the opposite flank such as Arjen Robben or even Cristiano Ronaldo in his early days, he has a predilection for starting on the outside to dribble inside and end up looking for the goal.

For the current season, Yéremy Pino has already scored 7 goals and provided 4 assists in all competitions, mainly in LaLiga. The talented Spaniard has already played 1842 minutes, surpassing by more than 500 minutes what he played last season.

On February 27, he scored a poker of goals in Villarreal's thrashing of Espanyol in the First Division. What Yéremy achieved has only been achieved by players like Cristiano Ronaldo or Messi and the last time the Argentine had done it for LaLiga was on February 222, 2020.

The player rejected Barcelona

Yéremy's path to the elite did not start at a very young age in a youth academy and was more about street soccer and dribbling. After a fleeting stint in the Las Palmas youth academy, Pino moved to Roda and it was at the age of 14 that Villarreal snapped him up thanks to their network of scouts while he was playing in a regional national team championship representing the Canary Islands.

At that tournament, Barça also had their eye on him, but it was the Yellow Submarine who closed the deal. The club's facilities at Miralcamp, the great commitment to the player, and the importance that Villarreal gives to the extra-sporting training of the players was decisive for his entourage to opt for wearing yellow and not Blaugrana.

Since then, Yéremy has been progressing in stages in a dazzling way. At the age of 16 and 17, he was already playing for Villarreal C in the Third Division instead of the youth category, he was always one step ahead on his way to the elite and became a regular in the lower categories of the Spanish national team.

“He has the ability to observe the movements of his teammates and from there integrate his qualities in favor of collective performance. In addition, he lives for soccer and faces the day-to-day with complementary training, nutrition, and rest. Yéremi has been and is a blessing for his coaches," explained Nando Martínez, coach of the Castellón youth team, in El País.

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