Alain Halilovich - rising star on the European football sky

Today in the world of football in the trend to reward promising or flashed at a high level of young players by comparison with ex-stars of world size. Every now and then, the "new Cantona", "the new Maradona" or "the new Henri" appear here, but to the greatness of their protégé, alas, only a few grow. Bright stars sometimes go out as quickly as they did on the football sky, and a few years later the player, who had already forgotten, may well be in the role of an outsider trying to keep a residence permit in the top flight. However, the gifted players fate often gives a second chance, and whether they use it or not - this is a matter of ambition, desires and opportunities.

"The New Messi"

Croatian attacking midfielder Alain Halilovich has been playing football professionally for the fifth season, and meanwhile the player is only 21 years old. Due to the bright individual qualities, extraordinary thinking and beautiful dribbling, the Croatians began to compare at a fairly young age with the main star of the Spanish La Liga and the Argentina national team Lionel Messi.

Halilovich Alen is a native of Croatian Dubrovnik. In his youth, he got into the youth team of Zagreb Dynamo, a club that gave European and world football a lot of top-level players.

For the capital club Khalilovich debuted in 2012 at the age of 16 years. It is symbolic that the first minutes of the young Croat on the football field fell on the match with the principal rival and eternal enemy of Dynamo - "Hajduk". Zagreb club in that opposition won a confident victory with a score of 3-1, and after just a few days Alen Halilovich noted his first goal in the fight against Slaven Belupo. This event was not at all ordinary, because the young midfielder broke the record of the championship of Croatia and became the youngest scorer in his history. In the autumn of the same year, the player played his first few minutes in the most prestigious European tournament - the Champions League.

Moving to Spain

The bright, unordinary play of the attacking midfielder Dynamo attracted the attention of many European top clubs, but most of the specifics turned out to be in the actions of the Catalan Barcelona. The European Grand Prix signed a five-year contract with the Croats in the spring of 2014. For the first team of "blue-garnet" midfielder did not play, but spent a great season in the "Barcelona-B".

Rent in Sporting

In Catalonia, they understood perfectly well that it was blasphemy to "marinate" a talent like Alain Halilovich on a bench. The midfielder, however, still did not get into the basis of "blaugranas", so the management of "Barcelona" decided to send the Croat to gain experience in the Gijón "Sporting".

Gijon met the rising star with open arms, and the player paid attention to the local audience with the same coin. Alen Halilovich in the season 2015-2016 gg. Spent 35 matches for Sporting and again made the representatives of the writing fraternity speak about themselves. In the press, every now and then news flashed about the interest in the Croatian football player from the English and Spanish clubs, the more surprising was to find the name of Alain in the list of summer transfers of German "Hamburg" - the team, no doubt, with a great history, but which is very feverish lately .

Reloading

"Dinosaurs" for a few seasons in a row only in recent matches were saved from the departure from the elite of German football, was not an exception and the 2016-2017 season. Alen Halilovich became one of those players who were acquired as a point-strengthening team, but from the first days in Germany it became clear that this is not the championship in which the midfielder will feel like a fish in the water.

In the winter of 2017, Halilovic was again on loan - this time in the modest representative of the La Liga - "Las Palmas". It is not yet clear what fruits this decision will bring, but sport experts call it a kind of restart of a career, of course, a talented football player. Well, time will tell.