The serious face of Gonzalo silver collide with the joy of his football. This is what he has been doing since he signed for Real Valladolid at the end of the summer market. “I am not much of scoring goals”, He said in his presentation, and anyone would say: against Cartagena he scored the third so far this season, and that has barely been able to exceed 600 minutes of game with the blanquivioleta, due to the continuous calls of his country.
Not in vain, ‘Platita’ is one of the rising stars of the young Ecuadorian team, with which he has a practically fixed position even before his landing in Zorrilla. Although during his first time at Sporting CP he barely had minutes, he was quoted with ‘La Tri’, with which sometimes plays second striker. He also referred to this when he arrived: “I don’t feel very good in that position.” Pacheta replied that we would see.
And what has been seen from the left-handed end is vertigo in their actions, although it is true that he is mainly playing in the band, as expected, on the right. Are agile legs that, in the dry, he dribbles in such a way that it becomes difficult to stop him. It also has other skills such as subtlety in hitting, with which he premiered at El Molinón or like the one he showed against Mirandés, with a more distant shot.
Against Cartagena, on the other hand, he exposed his devilish speed and his reading in a counter launched with Sergio León who defined well. When it seemed that he was falling to the ground, he lodged it with his left away from Marc Martínez, thus suffering an ‘Efesé’ which he was able to score in another couple of attempts and before which he completed three dribbles, a pattern already common in him, although somewhat far from his top of the six he made against Mirandés.
His brother Bryan
In this new adventure in Valladolid, second in Europe, Gonzalo Plata He is accompanied by his older brother Bryan. It was precisely he who, through his Twitch account, announced that he would wear Ronaldo’s club shirt on loan. Despite the strangeness that it caused in the first moment, soon, after the signing was confirmed, its presence was naturalized and is almost another star around team, with whom amateur photos are also taken.
And it is that something has the footballer that makes him seem of those headdresses with a wand. They know it well in their country, where they closely follow their evolutions, in the context of their selection, but also in the midst of the fervor for a player whom they compare with the greats there. So much so that it has even turned Samu Galicia, a Valladolid ‘youtuber’, into little less than a sensation, thanks to the follow-up he pays for the Silver bullet.