# Gilberto Mora's First Official Start: Playmaking at 17

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2069988652445221026
- Source account: [@ESPNFC](https://x.com/ESPNFC)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:01
- Published: 2026-06-25
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5fP8oP5DEK2e/en/gilberto-mora-s-first-official-start-playmaking-at-17

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5fP8oP5DEK2e/en/gilberto-mora-s-first-official-start-playmaking-at-17) I think a lot of people in and outside of the stadium are happy to see Gilberto Mora getting his first official start.

[0:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5fP8oP5DEK2e/en/gilberto-mora-s-first-official-start-playmaking-at-17?t=6) 17 years old, but still a lot is expected of him.

[0:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5fP8oP5DEK2e/en/gilberto-mora-s-first-official-start-playmaking-at-17?t=8) What did you think of him today? I try not to measure the player by how old he is, but I can't help watch him play and think he's only 17.

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5fP8oP5DEK2e/en/gilberto-mora-s-first-official-start-playmaking-at-17?t=17) Yeah, he's doing this at 17 years of age.

[0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5fP8oP5DEK2e/en/gilberto-mora-s-first-official-start-playmaking-at-17?t=19) And you look at the players that Javier Aguirre put around him.

[0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5fP8oP5DEK2e/en/gilberto-mora-s-first-official-start-playmaking-at-17?t=22) They're not exactly link up players. So it should be more difficult for him to play with these players because that's not his game.

[0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5fP8oP5DEK2e/en/gilberto-mora-s-first-official-start-playmaking-at-17?t=28) In a game where Javier Aguirre put his 11 to combat physicality, he throws out the 17 year old and he's the playmaker.

[0:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5fP8oP5DEK2e/en/gilberto-mora-s-first-official-start-playmaking-at-17?t=36) He's the catalyst. You saw the goal, the second goal that they scored.

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5fP8oP5DEK2e/en/gilberto-mora-s-first-official-start-playmaking-at-17?t=39) Take a look at how he's transitioning the field and how he's looking around and scanning the field and the weight of the past.

[0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5fP8oP5DEK2e/en/gilberto-mora-s-first-official-start-playmaking-at-17?t=44) He plays with a different mentality and a different quality than the rest.

[0:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5fP8oP5DEK2e/en/gilberto-mora-s-first-official-start-playmaking-at-17?t=48) Case had said that they haven't been tested.

[0:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5fP8oP5DEK2e/en/gilberto-mora-s-first-official-start-playmaking-at-17?t=50) I don't think they want to be tested. Case, they don't have enough players like this.

[0:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5fP8oP5DEK2e/en/gilberto-mora-s-first-official-start-playmaking-at-17?t=52) They don't have the quality. And that's why they play the way they do.

[0:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5fP8oP5DEK2e/en/gilberto-mora-s-first-official-start-playmaking-at-17?t=55) But when you see a player like Gilberto Mora do what he does, you start thinking to yourself, wow, where did that come from?