Pep Guardiola has hailed Claudio Echeverri as an “unbelievable participant” after the Argentinian teenager scored his first purpose for Manchester City.
Echeverri discovered the online with a first-half free-kick on his full Metropolis debut as Guardiola’s facet beat Al Ain 6-0 in Atlanta to e book their place within the FIFA Membership World Cup knockout rounds.
The 19-year-old was pressured off at half-time with an ankle harm. However 45 minutes at Mercedes-Benz Stadium was sufficient to make an impression on his supervisor.
“It was a unbelievable purpose,” Guardiola stated.
“He is an unbelievable participant within the small areas. Sadly, he couldn’t proceed to have time for an issue with the ankle, however yeah, he is actually good within the first minutes, and on this competitors he made a unbelievable purpose, the free kick was actually, actually, actually good.”
Echeverri arrived at Metropolis in February, however was made to attend till the FA Cup last defeat to Crystal Palace in Might for his first minutes on the pitch.
He made his Premier League debut as a late substitute towards Fulham on the ultimate day of the season.
Signed from River Plate in a deal price round £18.5 million ($25m), he has been linked with a mortgage transfer to Metropolis Soccer Group membership Girona and his short-term future stays up within the air.
“Since he arrived, the earlier season, the three or 4 months with the lads, on the finish of the coaching session, he was practising the free kicks alone, with the keeper, with the wall,” Guardiola continued.
“The opposite ones they did not practise, he was practising and practising, and work pays off.
“So on the finish, he had the braveness, the standard, once you practise, you already know, it is like golf or like basketball, as a lot you practise free pictures, the extra possibilities you have got.”