10 Things you Didn't Know about Pau Cubarsi

Sponsored by : supplyhandlers.com Goal90 Shop: https://goal90.shop/ 10 Things you Didn't Know about Pau Cubarsi Robert Lewandowski once stared at a teenager on the Barcelona training pitch and asked him a question he genuinely didn't know the answer to: "Are you really 17?" That's the kind of reaction Pau Cubarsí has been causing since the moment he stepped into a first team dressing room full of superstars. But behind the ice-cold defending and the "wise beyond his years" headlines is a story most fans have never actually heard — until today. Let's get into it. Number 1: His background Cubarsí was born in Estanyol, a village near Girona so small that fewer than two hundred people live there. No school. No football pitch. Just a handful of streets and a carpentry workshop that has been in his family since 1905. That workshop, Fustería Cubarsí, is currently run by his father Robert and his uncle, and it's been passed down across four generations. As a kid, Pau spent his summers there — though by his own admission, he wasn't exactly a skilled tradesman. "Some summer I helped my father, and as a kid I used to spend the summer hanging around there, more of a nuisance than a help," he joked in an interview with El Mundo. It's a strange thing to picture: one of the calmest defenders in world football, learning patience not on a pitch, but around sawdust and timber.