ANDRES INIESTA AND THE INIESTA WINES.

The famous Spanish footballer Andres Iniesta who played for the Spanish giants Barcelona from the age of 12, twelve years, and left in the summer to join a Japanese club. Now in the tiny village of Fuentealbilla , which is nearer to Madrid then to Barcelona, Barcelona is four and half hour drive from Fuentealbilla. It was in this small village that Andres Iniesta played with his friends at a very tender age. In fact the first youth academy he joined was not the Barcelona 's famous LA MASSIA , THE CASTLE. In fact he joined his hometown club of Albacete , and he even financed money for this club when it was facing financial hardships. But it was his grandfather who drove him all the way to Barcelona and had him enrol at the LA MASIA at the age of twelve. Now the Iniesta are equally famous in Spain for their wines and vineyards. It is called the INIESTA WINES, hey also have their own bar. They have a special wine brand called MINUTE 116, that got its's name from when Andres Iniesta scored the winning goal for Spain at the 2010 world cup in South Africa, that goal against Holland was scored in the final played between Spain and Holland, and Andres Iniesta scored that goal in the after extra time in the 116th minute of the game. The village have street named after their favourite son Andres Iniesta, and have two bronze statues of Andres Iniesta one is in front of his bar ad the second statue is placed exactly where Andres Iniesta played with his friends as a boy, even at that tender age he had very good control of the ball, dribbled well as well.