Christian Rivera, the best winter ‘signing’ for Sporting

Jony, Calavera and the Venezuelan Ramirez were the signings of Sporting in the past winter market but until now it seems that the best reinforcement is one of the incorporations of the beginning of the season and that it has begun to explode with the new year. Is about Christian Riverawho played in Miranda de Ebro his fifth complete match in the rojiblanco team, at the best level and which finished off with a goal to close the important victoria from the David Gallego ensemble in Anduva.

Christian Rivera (Gijón, 1997) was the great bet of Javier Rico the last summer. “When I came into office It was a fixed idea of ​​mine to be able to bring it”said the sports director after complete your transfer that allowed him to escape from a bad experience in Las Palmas; their relationship there ended up in court. After leaving the yellow club, he decided go back home, go back to its beginnings.

But Rivera arrived in Gijón with only 22 games accumulated in his legs in the from the last seasons. Y accused him. “He will participate when he is in optimal conditions to be summoned,” Gallego pointed out in October. “you’re not having any luck as to injuries and it is not having continuity; have to pick up the pace and the minimum tone possible to be able to help us”, added the coach. Until that moment he had only played the last quarter of an hour of the first game of the season.

His first match as titler went before the Royal Society B in El Molinón with the starter José Gragera in the U-21 National Team on that day 16. And back to the bench, with a participation in another quarter of an hour final against the Fuenlabradawaiting for the Copa del Rey. The KO tournament had to provide him with the minutes he demanded to really start contributing.

The Full match in front of ceares on November 30 and first half against Alcorcón December 15 allowed him to look forward to the new year with hope. The qualifiers against first Villarreal (90 minutes, on January 6) and the Cádiz (109 of the 120 minutes, on January 15) they gave him the quality jump definitive. his performances in these two meetings they gave him ownership only truncated by the coronavirus in the week that the team was preparing the visit to Valladolid.

“Now I show that version that I tried to show throughout the year; I am lucky enough to participate and give that level. I think I still need much as to the physical. In the last minutes I arrive without strength”, declared Christian Rivera after the last game against Mirandés, in which he won the third goal in its sports race.

The two other goals He got them in Huesca in his best season in professional football; there played 22 games in the 2018-19 season in the First Division, on loan from UD Las Palmas where he had arrived that summer of 2018. In Gijón he has eight, in addition to the four in the cup, and he is already walking steadily towards his best numbers. His leadership in Sporting it begins to be noticed.