VÍCTOR MERCHÁN - Subir a Segunda con el Castilla y Entrenar con Mourinho y CR7 - OnlyCracks TV #13

🔥 FOLLOW ONLYCRACKS TV 📸 Instagram:   / onlycracks_tv   🎵 TikTok:   / onlycracks_tv   🎧 Spotify (Podcast): https://open.spotify.com/show/onlycra... Víctor Merchán spent over a decade in Real Madrid's youth academy, reaching Castilla and sharing a locker room with a generation full of names that would eventually reach the elite level: Carvajal, Nacho, Morata, Joselu, Lucas Vázquez, Jesé, Cheryshev, Sarabia, and many more. But his story isn't the typical tale of a "youth academy player who never made it." It's a conversation about the difficulty of turning youth academy talent into a stable professional career, about what separates a great player from a homegrown talent from a footballer who establishes themselves at the elite level, and about what it's like to be so close to the dream… and still end up taking a different path. In this interview, we talk with Víctor about his beginnings in Fuenlabrada, his arrival at La Fábrica (Real Madrid's youth academy), his years with Real Madrid C and Castilla, training with Mourinho's first team, the internal competition with future La Liga players, his departure from Real Madrid, the harsh reality of playing in semi-professional leagues, and his recent retirement from football. We also discuss current topics: what Mourinho can bring to Real Madrid upon his return, why a player like Morata has been so criticized despite his career, and whether Real Madrid's youth academy is truly undervalued when it's one of the most prolific in producing professional footballers in the world. An interview about the youth academy, expectations, elite dressing rooms, career decisions, semi-professional football, and everything that goes unseen behind the scenes of a footballer's journey. 📌 In this episode we talk about: Víctor Merchán's arrival at Real Madrid What it's like inside La Fábrica (the Real Madrid youth academy) Castilla with Carvajal, Nacho, Morata, Joselu, Lucas, and Jesé Training with Mourinho's first team The difficulty of making the leap to professional football The criticism of Morata and the treatment of the player Real Madrid's youth academy and its true value Retirement and the final assessment of a career Subscribe to OnlyCracks TV for more interviews with footballers, coaches, agents, and real-life figures in football. #RealMadrid #LaFabrica #Castilla #VictorMerchan #CanteraRealMadrid #Mourinho #Morata #FutbolEspañol #OnlyCracksTV #Futbol