Xisco Nadal played 158 games as a professional, most of them, a total of 91, in the Second Division. where he scored six goals. In fact, on June 15, 2003, he scored a goal against Espanyol and became the youngest scorer in LaLiga history by scoring a goal at 16 years and 153 days old, a record that Iker Muniain would later surpass.
Villarreal youth player, That year he went from youth to debut with the first team and then alternated with the reserve team. Starting the following season, In 2018 he decided to retire after having been at CD Roda for a couple of years.
Today, Xisco Nadal is a first team delegate of the Villarreal CF, a position he has held since the 2020/21 season. This Thursday, June 6, 2024, he went viral on social networks due to the change in his physique after so many years of inactivity. The Spaniard scored a very nice goal for Villarreal in a 7-a-side soccer match, within an international tournament which is being disputed in North Carolina (United States). In the goal, What has drawn attention to the image on social networks is the physical condition of the former soccer player, who looks quite overweight.
The comments on social networks have not been long in coming due to the virality of the images. “I thought he was Ronaldo Nazario”, “He’s still a crack…”, “He surpasses Ferran Torres in every way” or “He’s always been a big player. That’s why he moves with such ease despite his weight.” “, have been some of those that can be read on X (former Twitter).
In this 7-a-side football tournament there are great retired footballers such as Kun Agüero, Santana, Borja Valero, Rossi, Marcos Senna or Grosskreutz, Materazzi or Lucas Barrios, since clubs such as Burnley, Inter Milan, Borussia Dortmund, Bayern de Munich or Villarreal itself.
Xisco’s is not the only case of footballers who have changed radically after their retirement. The Sevillian Diego Tristán starred in very similar images a few years ago, as did the Dutchman Wesley Sneijder, who faced Spain in the final of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
