Ricky Rubio, the mop boy
The young Ricky Rubio was born in the town of El Masnou Barcelona on 21 October for 20 years old. Although it is currently one of the stars of the Spanish National Team Basketball, Ricky started playing football at 7 years until in 2005 he met the great Michael Jordan and decided that his was the basketball.
Soon after, the legendary former basketball player Larry Joe Bird, was also quite agree that Ricky was born for basketball, so at the age of 14 plus years in the ACB League debut in the match played Joventut against CB Granada, on October 10, 2005.
From here, Ricky, with 1.93 meters high, began to make history playing for Joventut Badalona, but on 22 April last year, 2009, Ricky said he wanted to join the NBA Draft, but had a clause too high. Despite the offer he favored the Minnesota Timberwolves to play in the NBA, Ricky finally accepted an offer from Regal FC Barcelona team that currently plays base.
After all this, we should also cite its passage through the Spanish national team, making it the third youngest player to debut in it, behind Carlos Sevillano and Juan Antonio Corbalan.