“I found myself 25 years old and without a team, dead for soccer”

In football there are few plans teachers who come out perfectly And many times you have to improvise alternative routes to success. TO Dani Ramírez (Leganés, 28 years old) a new world was opened to him when the real Madrid signed him together Carvajal from Lemans de Leganés being fry. I would spend seven years in Factory White, but his later soccer life could not be more different from that of his countryman. While Carva was celebrating the Thirteenth with Madrid, Dani Ramírez, jaded and without team after go through Valencia B, Getafe B and Tercera, meditated retiring with scarcely 25 years…

Social media and a Polish broker changed everything. Today, Dani Ramírez He has become the sensation midfielder of Ekstraklasa, the Polish League, with 12 goals and 10 assists. Last January he signed for the historic Lech Poznan and after finishing runner-up, he will now play the Europa League preview. From seeing his dream in ruins to being known as The teacher of polish football.

'The Paper House' and a message in the dark

“They nicknamed me because The Paper House It is very popular also there andAs the character, I am the one who pulls the strings of the team“he laughs. This course played before 40,000 spectators in Poznan but three years ago his only present was fishing in Belvís de la Jara (Toledo), his town. “I found myself without a team, I was dead in football”admits. “People thought that since it had not worked in Madrid, Valencia and Getafe something was wrong with me, then I found out that my previous agent had to do … I became toxic, nobody wanted to sign me“

Until a message came. “A Polish intermediary wrote me for Facebook to offer me a test with a Polish Second … “, he recalls. There he went, to the most modest Stomil Olsztyn, it was the lever he needed. Not to storm the Mint, but Polish football. Hence LKS Lodz, Player of the Year in the silver category and the powerful Lech Poznan, with whom he has three more years of contract. “I had MLS offers and one from Azerbaijan who paid me a lot more, but I'm where I want to be, I am very happy“, he confesses while he hurries his vacations, with his boat and his rods.

“Many believe that football is what happens to Mbappé, who at his age earns a fortune and plays in the elite, but that happens to very few, the normal thing is that football gives you a lot of host … You have to fight, I have fought“he advises. It is a lesson that The teacherr know well.