the army of marc aguado
Real Zaragoza entered the blood of that mythological animal called Xavi Aguado when the then young soccer player from Sabadell was assigned in 1990 to perform military service at the Air Base. In Aragón, he would find the club and his life, a life that has irrigated his son Marc, youth squad player Royal Saragossa who was appointed again last summer at Andorra FC, where last year he had established himself as the key to the vault of a team that was promoted for the first time to Second division. There he attends his particular mili now Aguado, tanning, maturing, improving… All with a view to returning to Zaragoza as a full-fledged footballer.
Marc Aguado (Zaragoza, February 2000) will experience a special match this Tuesday because he will be able to play at La Romareda. Zaragoza and Andorra did not include any penalty clause, the so-called ‘fear clause’ that could order their participation in the two games of the season against the Aragonese team. Therefore, Aguado will be able to play without any ties, beyond his love for the colors that will be his rival for a day. He will be able to do it if an injury allows it, of course: last week, in the warm-up before the match against Villarreal B, the Aragonese midfielder suffered a blow to his ankle that prevented him from playing then and also this Saturday in Andorra’s victory against The Ponferradine. Marc has been touched. He is doubtful to play in La Romareda, but his evolution is good and the coach’s intention Eder Sarabia is that he can play and collect the reward of doing so against his parent team and in the stadium of his dreams.
In the life of the players, there is always a coach who sets boundaries for good and bad. With Marc Aguado, for the good, it was Éder Sarabia, who showed the natural qualities of a midfielder in him from the first day. Not an organizing, defensive, or positional midfielder… Redundant surnames for a position that doesn’t need more adjectives: midfielder.
From that position, Marc Aguado has become Andorra’s contextual footballer -the one who marks and represents the style of play- and one of the kings of the pass in his debut season in professional football. Within the positional game and the cult of passing by a team that is carefully crafted and refined, Marc Aguado is one of its key figures in the initiation triangle that is usually made up of central defenders Mika Mármol and Adriá Vilanova.
The man from Zaragoza is consecrating himself as a footballer who balances with the ball, manages the game from the pass and describes football thanks to his vision, creative ability and good feet. He is the eighth player who makes the most passes per 90 minutes of play and the 12th with the highest precision in the shipments that go to the last third of the field, where football acquires all its meaning. All in the 11 games he has played, 10 of them as a starter, in a season in which he is one of the revelation players in the category.
His influence on Andorra’s game plan is self-explanatory with the determination with which Éder Sarabia demanded a new loan. This convinced insistence and the development of the Zaragoza market favored, once again, his departure on loan after renewing his contract until June 30, 2025. The initial idea of the Aragonese club is that they will begin the preseason under the orders of Carcedo as one more footballer of the first team. He was counted on, after a last campaign in which he was monitored week after week and in which very positive reports were extracted. However, Manu Molina crossed Carcedo’s path as a man free of contract and as an opportunity that Zaragoza did not want to neglect. Given the abundant list of midfielders and the certainty that he will have a role of continued prominence in Andorra, miguel turret He opened the exit door for Aguado so that he could continue gaining strength and developing.
In Andorra, in the mountains, he lives his third loan season (since 2020). At 22 years old, Aguado has found the perfect military there before returning home. Trained in the Ciudad Deportiva, going through all its ranks and looking especially in the mirror of Eguaras these years ago, he has defined himself as a compass that always points north. A while ago, he did not seem to be within his generation as one of those chosen by football. But grace, too, is in choosing football yourself. With perseverance, learning and service, Aguado has done it.