Luca is 13, plays defensive midfielder near Barcelona, and was the first athlete to use playing. — for over a year now.
What the year looked like isn’t a highlight reel. It’s a 6am routine most weekdays, weekly technical work, watching matches back, and three goals held at once: a long one, a season one, and whatever this month is about. His season goal was to help his team win the league and reach a higher division. They came third; he got the invitation to move up. Most of the way there — through a lot of small, repeated, unglamorous things.
The dream stays the dream. The work is what’s underneath it.
That’s the whole idea. Not a scoreboard climbing toward “elite.” A direction he wrote himself, a system that keeps it in front of him, and the consistency to keep showing up on the quiet weeks. You can read more in his own words.
He’s not a finished story, and that’s the point — this is what a patient year looks like from the inside.