Nico Williams: ATHLETIC BILBAO and Spain Winger, which can be set for the Premier League this summer | Football news

Niko Williams was not even a teenager when Restrek Bilbao realized that he would be a big star.

“When he was a child, he was different,” Andoni Bombin, the previous scouts of the methodology and the head of the methodology, tells. Sky Sports. “Even when he was in U12s, everyone always thought he was one of the upcoming stars for the club.”

It has definitely became its fruits, but perhaps more than expected for the first time. Williams is not only the main jewel of Athletic but also a national hero for Spain. England found that in the Euro 2024 final, Williams scored the first goal of La Roja in Berlin.

It can be said that this is the summit of a promising and flowering profession so far-Williams has not yet been 23 years old and has the title of the euro for his name, in addition to placing the worship champion of delivering the Cuba del Rey to sports after waiting for 40 years to get a cup.

Although the opportunity to continue the dream of presenting the European Sports League title with the final in Bilbao, in addition to the next Premier League interest this summer, there may be more next moments.

Bombin was responsible for strengthening the best talents of Athletic through the structure of their youth and played a pivotal role in transporting Williams over the age groups.

Upon arrival from osasuna as U11s player, he was placed immediately in a higher age group. When he was 16 years old, he was playing with U19s. Two years later, he was playing with Pasconia, the third team in Athletic, before the specified date. His first appearance in the sports team will come in the following season.

“Even when he was in U18s, he had a playing personality, and the personality in that category is not easy,” Bombin added.

“So all of us, we had the same opinion about him: He would become a high -level player.”

There was also a great motive for Williams and this was the dream to simulate his brother, Enaki.

Eight years of major Niko, Enaki erupted to the first Athletic team a decade ago and has since become an icon in the club, where it closed 500 games.

Inaki Williams has on the back of his shirt, while Niko Williams Junior adopts the respect of his brother, but also the dynamic similar to the son between the two.

The brothers dominate sports wings. They sit together with each other in the main attacking standards this season as a dangerous ports. Niko on the left, Enaki on the right – although it sometimes exchanges like children who play on the field.

Nevertheless, the dream of that partnership at the Sports Academy began, where Niko looked at his older brother in the first team.

“For Niko, the indication was that his brother was – to try to get his level, then when he arrived there, to try to be better than that,” says Bombin.

And now, if I asked Enaki, I think he will say the same thing: Niko is more complete than him.

“When both are at the same level, of course, I will play both. But if you need to make a decision between them, I think Nico is. Because in situations for one, I think it’s better than Enaki, but it is just a simple difference.”

It was not a clear story for Williams Brothers in Bilbao. The documentary issued by them last year, WilliamsIt revealed negative perceptions of standing.

The ATHLETIC employment structure was only used by the players that were brought through the Balak Basque to a white demographic in the first place in their team over generations. More ethnic minority players appeared, but Athletic became the last Laliga club that plays a black player in 2011. Then I Inaki became the first black top scorer for Athletic in 2015.

The Williams Brothers grew up in the Basque country after their parents left Ghana in search of a better life. The sporting fans in the spouses have always taken two on their own. But the color of their skin in the context of this demographic has become a target for the competing fans, as it receives treatment with the lack of different racist conflicts in the Real Madrid winger Vinicius Junior in Spanish football.

For Nika, who saw his brother receiving ill -treatment when he collapsed for the first time, Athletic was keen to assert that his younger brother had a house.

“We always say the same thing: the feeling of belonging is one of the keys to the Sports Club project,” says Bombin.

“Providing all this academy players with belonging makes them better players. When you connect it to your capabilities, you can move forward as quickly as possible.

“Niko is completely understood. This makes him like:” Well, I am a sports club. This is my club. I want to be a football player in the sports club. “

This became important last summer for both the player and the club, when Barcelona took an approach to signing Niko. The player had an option to take, but he chose to survive – partly because of the relationship it had with sports, and how the move to a historic and direct competitor would be realized.

“I think it was really useful to be his brother in his life because through Inaki, he fully understands what this club means,” says Bombin.

“So this was a perfect mix to get what you want. Now I think it’s a good example: Niko Williams in the first team and does not think about where he can go in the future.

“He just enjoys what he does, enjoys the club, wins titles, and is only happy where he plays.”

The waves of the saga ran this season, as the young wing began the campaign slowly. The emotional success of Spain’s success in the euro had an effect, but also suggested the aggressive pursuit of Barcelona for the 22 -year -old.

He has nine goals this season, but seven of them came since the beginning of the year – although he is free from this term. He is on the rich vein of the model while preparing to face Rangers in the quarter -finals of the European League, and a double victory in the last 16 years of Rome indicates that it is now for the season of his problems.

Athletic solution – and perhaps the player – will be tested again this summer, with more next attention. Sky Sports News Arsenal understands great interest in the wing, as Barcelona is likely to revive its long -term approach.

Will the player who is associated with Spanish and Spanish football be able to cut it in the Premier League?

“The Premier League is playing very quickly with direct attacks and long balls, which always have many situations for one, and the possibilities of counter -attack,” says Bombin.

“I think it will be ready if this happens in the future because its characteristics are, I think, the best for this type of football.”