The day Ilaix Moriba won over Barca's dressing room
As a result he was then included in the team's Whatsapp group
Ilaix Moriba is only 18 but has shown big personality, on and off the pitch. The Barca midfielder has started well in the first team when given the chance, and the dressing room has taken to him. Intelligent, the player from La Masia has known how to find his place with a mix of humility and character. There was a before and after for Ilaix. It was the visit to the Sanchez Pizjuan in La Liga, which was his third game under Ronald Koeman, having played against Cornella in the Copa and Alaves in the league.
Barca won 2-0, with Ilaix providing an assist for Leo Messi for the second goal. After the game, the teams clashed in the tunnel. There was a lot of tension around Monchi, who had called Koeman a cry-baby.
The temperature rose in the tunnel until the point where various Sevilla players, including Diego Carlos, clashed with heavyweights from the Barcelona dressing room. In that moment and without thinking twice, Ilaix got involved to defend his team-mates. He took part in the riffraff without being intimidated by Carlos’s size or his own age.
Ilaix showed up for one of the captains and that gesture did not go unnoticed in the dressing room. That helped him get included in the first-team squad’s Whatsapp group so quickly.
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