Five years with Fede Valverde

Fede Valverde has exploded right into a special season for him. Firstly, because it meets a five years as madridistaHe has also been a father and begins a new stage with the Wasserman company. At this time in 2015, the white team announced your hiring in exchange for five million euros. From the Peñarol, where was your first season as yielded, was observed by other teams such as Arsenal, United and Barça. Despite her future star poster, the bet from Madrid it was very big since I was 16 for 17. As AS could know, Madrid managers offered the double money compared to its rivals.

Currently, it is key to zidane: he has playor 2,068 minutes in the 32 games played and the team has only lost two games of the 2. 3 in which was holder. But his beginnings in Chamartín were far from simple. Valverde landed in Spain in the summer 2016 to quietly join the Castilla de Solari. At first he was a substitute and had a lot of competition with Odegaard, Febas and Enzo. When everything indicated that he would be in the shadow of those players, Fede traced the flight and ended the season like indisputable holder and with three goals. So much so that at 18 he had already demonstrated what was prepared for a First. Sure enough, the midfielder left loaned to Deportivo de La Coruña in the 2017-18 campaign. There, he did not debut until day three and it was a convulsive campaign that ended with the team in Second.

The hard experience of Riazor it served to to mature and its 13 entitlements were enough for Lopetegui I gave him the opportunity of playing in the first team surrounded by the Kroos, Modric and Casemiro. Valverde failed debut until on October 23, 2018, precisely in the Champions League and at the Bernabéu against the Viktoria Pilsen (2-1). Then, the results were accompanying the team with five consecutive victories (Melilla, Rome, Valencia, Melilla (Bernabéu) and Huesca), where shone against Melilla in the white manor. Two weeks later, he repeated ownership before the CSKA and that defeat (0-3) will invoiced the team and to Solari. The goodbye of the Argentine coach and the arrival of Zidane meant changes, among them that Valverde enjoy more leadership: five titles in 11 batches.

Zidane, one of his mentors

Madrid concluded a season to forget and many rumors began to come out about a possible assignment from Valverde. The trigger for it to finally stay at the madrid was Zidane. Given the impossibility of signing Pogba, the French avoided a possible transfer Uruguayan. He didn't have his first minutes until third day (Villarreal). The midfielder had not yet consecrated himself. Then, the day so marked arrived: Madrid visited the Metropolitan Wanda with the novelty that Fede was a starter. The team tied at zero and the Uruguayan was the highlight. Peñarol's ex had a prize: next nine matches started in eight from the start. With that baggage, Valverde began to be an oxygen cylinder for Zidane. Kroos, Casemiro and Modric they started to have rest and the Uruguayan gained more prominence. In the blink of an eye, he was already won to the fans, his colleagues and the coaching staff. Without him on the field, Madrid lost to Mallorca (1-0), Levante (1-0) and Betis (2-1). The Madrid will return to LaLiga the day 14 against Éibar in the place where it all started for Fede: the Alfredo Di Stéfano. Five years already …