Juan Miranda has been presented this Wednesday as a new Real Betis player for the 2020/21 season, in which he will play on loan from FC Barcelona with the number '33' and a subsidiary file, which will allow the Verdiblanco club to also register Víctor Camarasa. Miranda arrives on loan, in principle, without an agreed purchase option, but Betis trust that this relationship will last for several more years and “the path is very well laid out for him to continue with us,” as the sports director explained today. bético, Antonio Cordón, at a press conference.
“I am immensely happy to return to what I consider to be my home and my family. My dream has always been to get to the Betis first team, I went to Barcelona young, but I was part of the formalities of a footballer, and now luckily I have returned and I am very happy, “said Miranda, who also showed his gratitude to FC Barcelona for the facilities granted for his departure, in advantageous conditions for the Verdiblanco club: “I want to thank both Betis, Barcelona and my agent for making the operation easy and my family who have always been supporting me and the first option to we were always Betis. This is one of the days that I will always remember. We have been talking about it since I left because we have been Betic since we were born ”, said the young Sevillian footballer, who was trained in the Betic quarry and went to Barça in 2014, when he was 14 years old.
Miranda explained that Betis' interest in his signing comes from behind: “The interest is from years ago. They know that I am Betic and in recent years it has not been easy and this year they bet on me and I needed that change and we understood each other ”.
Now he will be able to play alongside Joaquin, who made his debut in the Real Betis first team the same year he was born, 2000: “It is a privilege to be next to Joaquin. When he debuted, I was hardly born and he has treated me very well in the dressing room ”, said the new Betis player, who during his years at FC Barcelona has never stopped following his Betis. “I have been away for years, but I have not missed any Betis game, at La Masía I saw them all, and the truth is that the last one in Valencia was a deserved and resounding victory. I hope that next weekend against Real it will continue like this ”.
Miranda leaves grateful for the treatment he received in the Barça dressing room, surrounded by stars: “Being surrounded by so many stars makes you mature more. I am very grateful to Barça, they have treated me super well. It is not easy to enter a changing room with so many stars, but they are human too and they give you what you need ”.