Willian
Joseph (Porto Calvo, 28 years old) knocks on the door of a select club. Their knuckles hit the oak wood of a group with illustrious names, with surnames that evoke great memories. If the market does not dictate otherwise, which you never know, the Brazilian striker will be the eighth passenger on a privileged list: that of foreigners who have worn the Txuri Urdin jacket in at least five seasons.
There are seven footballers who hold such a privilege in the entity's almost 111 years of life. A legendary scorer like Darko
Kovacevic (9 seasons divided into two stages) he leads a luxury line-up in which the goalkeeper Claudio Bravo stands out, with 8 campaigns, and Carlos Vela, who headed to Los Angeles midway through the seventh. With five courses in the first team appears the footballer who changed the club's recent history, Antoine
Griezmann, record you share with Valery
Karpin (in two stages) and Geronimo
Rulli. Nihat
Kahveci He also played with Real in five seasons, although he landed with 2001/2002 already advanced.
Influential names in the realistic past, almost always associated with happy moments. The music of the Champions, the runner-up, the Chilean Lyon… Experiences recorded in the retina of the txuri urdin hobby that appear when reviewing the members of an illustrious payroll in which Willian
Joseph will enter in September, leaving behind footballers like Meho
Kodro, Chory
Castro or Dimitri
Khokhlov (with four campaigns).
The current ‘9’ realist signed for Real in the summer of 2016 in exchange for 5 million euros. He came to the team led by Eusebio after a season in which the fatal injury of Agirretxe at the Bernabéu and the disappointing performance of Jonathas they left the center forward position in the air. The last foreign tips had not worked (see Seferovic, Finnbogason or his own Jona-thas). His signing, in a tortuous operation with the investment fund Maldonado in between, he was going to be looked at with a magnifying glass. Willian
Joseph it did not take long to dispel doubts.
His career at Real is marked by his effectiveness. He has surpassed ten league goals in his four seasons as txuri urdin and in all of them he has played at least 34 games, despite the fact that in his first three courses he had to deal with muscle injuries. If you keep your records and Rulli He leaves the club, will surpass the Argentine goal in disputed games (he has 149, by 170 from La Plata), making him the seventh foreigner in the history of the club with the most battles.
Stood with one foot out
The Brazilian can increase his records months after practically having his bags packed to travel to London and sign for Tottenham, and Barcelona also very interested in his transfer. Frustrated operations after which he fell into a pothole that could break past the confinement, with key goals against Espanyol and La Cerámica.
Willian
Joseph He is already one of the most important foreigners in Real's history. The next campaign will be five years as txuri urdin. Few can say it.