The Lad Can Play: Daniel Pacheco

There’s no doubting who Liverpool’s star player in the reserves was the past season. With the passing of every game Krisitian Nemeth has been winning over more supporters both for his instinctive finishing and for his impressive natural ability with the ball.

Yet for all his accomplishments, Nemeth isn’t the most talented striker in the reserves squad. That’s when Daniel Pacheco comes in. For a number of reasons the former Barcelona trainee hasn’t played too often for the reserves yet whenever he managed to put on a red shirt there was no doubting that he has tremendous potential.

Watching him play it is easy to forget that he is just sixteen. Like Nemeth he is an instinctive striker – it isn’t too hard to appreciate why he was nicknamed the Killer at Barca – yet there’s even more to his game. He works hard, isn’t afraid of a physical battle and his awareness of what is going on around him certainly isn’t normal for a kid his age.

The latest player to slip through Barcelona’s hands following the likes of Cesc Fabregas, Gerard Pique and Fran Merida, it was quite a coup for Liverpool to convince him to join once he came to decide with whom he should sign professional terms. The presence of a Spanish manager will have helped ease any worries that he might struggle to settle in yet in reality the success of Fabregas will have shown to Pacheco that England is a country where he can make an impact.

Whether that happens depends on how he develops and on how many opportunities he gets given. With so many players ahead of him it won’t be easy yet for someone who is already so good at such a young age, it is hard to see him being kept out of the side once he really starts to mature.

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