The first time I saw Moisés Caicedo play in a highly competitive environment, it gave me a proper picture of his level.
It was over the Easter period of 2019, for the youth team of Ecuadorian club Independiente del Valle, at a tournament in San Sebastián, organised by Real Sociedad.
I was director of youth development at Independiente, and we had been invited to the tournament by Roberto Olabe, Real’s director of football. Some of the best Under-18 teams in La Liga were there.
I had been told about Moisés, but when I took over at Independiente in 2018, he was in the final stages of recovering from a knee injury for which he had undergone surgery several times.
So I hadn’t seen him play much.