“I dedicate the goal to my father”

Antonio Sanchez, a 24-year-old young man from Palma, He made his debut against Sevilla as a Majorcan scorer in the First Division, thus joining a long list of illustrious such as Joan Forteza, Julián Mir, Miguel Ángel Nadal, Toni Prats, Pep Lluis Martí, Marcos Martín, David Castedo, Emilio Nsue, Víctor Casadesús and Marco Asensio, to name a few.

After standing out in the Vermilion subsidiary, Antonio Sánchez was loaned out on three occasions to teams such as Poblense, Barakaldo or Mirandés to return to the island last season, the 2020-2021 with Mallorca in Second achieving promotion and being one of the important pillars for the coach Luis Garcia Plaza. In fact, the Balearic player started 23 games, came off the bench in another 12 and was only absent from the call-up three times. In the course of the season he only scored one goal.

This season he started it out of the team due to a surgical intervention on a shoulder As soon as last season ended and he could not participate in the preseason or in any friendly match, so he did not appear in the team until matchday 6, debuting in this league in the match against him. Real Madrid in which his team was beaten 6 to 1 and playing 31 minutes in substitution of a teammate. In the last two days against Valencia and Seville he has already started occupying a band.

On his premiere this season and his first goal in the First Division, Antonio Sánchez acknowledges that “there have been many moments of working only because of the injury and now I’m very happy, and I dedicate the goal to my father who has always helped me and I owe him everything. “

For his part, the technician Luis García Plaza spares no praise when talking about the Mallorcan footballer: “If you ask me where he plays, I don’t even know what to tell you, you place him as a midfielder, or 8, as a midfielder or on the wing and he always meets youAnd he is also a player who contributes a lot in the dressing room because of his attitude and his positivity. “

Regarding the versatility of the player, it must be added that in times of urgency, as was the case last season due to a plague of injuries, Antonio Sánchez came to play as a right back at a high level.

Antonio Sánchez renewed his contract recently and is linked to Real Mallorca until June 30, 2024.