The Factory has a new ‘machine’

Jacobo Ortega (19 years old) is the ‘9’ in fashion in Valdebebas. The new ‘machine’ of La Fábrica. The powerful forward (1.90 meters tall) has had two stellar months in which with his goals he has been spreading joy to the first three Real Madrid reserves. Since March 8, a goal with Madrid C in the victory against Tenerife B, six goals and two assists with Castilla (two doubles against Lugo and Celta Fortuna) and two more goals with Juvenil A in the Youth League, one in the quarterfinals against Sporting de Portugal and another in the final against Bruges (plus another in the semifinal penalty shootout against PSG).

A background that makes him the fittest homegrown player of the moment. Proof of this is his last goal, with which he gave Castilla the victory against Unionistas in the last of the subsidiary’s ‘finals’ in their objective of getting into the ‘playoff’ positions to fight for promotion. Jacobwhich came out in the second half, revolutionized the game and caught an assist from Ciria in the area to catapult Castilla into the classification. A goal with which he already adds 18 so far this season.

Jacobo, in the Real Madrid C squad, burst into Castilla with force on March 14. Julián López de Lerma opted for him as a starter against Lugo and the forward responded to the coach’s confidence with a double. Since then, His figure has been capital in the great streak of the subsidiary. Castilla takes five wins, two draws and only one loss in the last eight days and in large part it is thanks to the spectacular contribution from Jacobowith six goals and two assists in this period. Not only has he become Julián López de Lerma’s trusted ‘9’, despite the return of rachad and the presence of Loren Zunigabut he is one of the great protagonists of the subsidiary being at its best moment of the season.

A youth hero

Jacobo Ortega transferred his great moment of form to the ‘Final Four’ of the Youth League. In the continental event he was also the starting ‘9’ for Alvaro Lopez. It was in the semifinals, where he scored one of the shots in the penalty shootout against PSG, and also in the final, where he put the whites ahead after a spectacular back-heel goal taking advantage of an assist from Fortea. In the penalty shootout he was the fifth taker and was left without a shot because Aguado crowned Juvenil A as European champions on the fourth shot. A title in which Jacobo is the main protagonist after an edition in which he participated in all 10 games, scoring four goals. A competition with which it was seen that he had something special since his debut last season, scoring a double in the historic win in Bergamo against Atalanta that put the then youth from Arbeloa in the ‘top 6’.

Member of a privileged group

Jacobo Ortega scored 18 goals this season among the first three subsidiaries: eight with Madrid C, six with Castilla and four with Juvenil A. He is one of the four youth players, along with Ciria, Barroso and Roberto Martín, who has marked this campaign with the first three Real Madrid reserves. According to ‘Transfermarkt’, it has a market value of 200,000 euros, a price that will skyrocket in the next review because the performance it has been having in recent weeks is spectacular. Soon it will be the new ‘millionaire boy’ of a Castilla squad whose market value exceeds 80 million euros.

Jacob Ortega He arrived at La Fábrica in the summer of 2018 to join the Infantil B team. From that moment on, he moved up the ranks at La Fábrica, with the curiosity that he did not go through Juvenil A. Last season, as a second-year youth player, he was already promoted to Real Madrid C, with which he played 34 games, being the team’s top scorer with seven goals and giving two assists. A past season in which also debuted with Castillaon October 12, 2024 before Yeclano. This season he remained in the Madrid C squad, and after some sporadic appearances with Castilla at the beginning of the competition, it is now that he has burst into the first reserve team with force.