“I wanted this relationship to continue for a longer time”

The Spanish goalkeeper Antonio Adam, which lives its second season in the Sporting of Portugal, He renewed his contract until 2024, the Portuguese club reported on Wednesday.

In a statement published on its website, the Sporting He pointed out that the renewal was made official this Wednesday between the player, 34, and the president of the club, Frederico Varandas.

“I am very happy at Sporting and my family too”

“It was something that I wanted to happen. I wanted to continue here, I am very happy at Sporting and my family too. I wanted this relationship to continue for longer,” said the goalkeeper in statements to the club’s media, in which he assured that he feels “Absolut happiness”.

Adam, formed in the Real Madrid and that he arrived in Portugal after passing through the Atlético de Madrid, considered that his performance in the season and a half that he has been in Lisbon has been “good” and highlighted the mix of veterans and young people in the Verdiblanco dressing room.

“It is what makes the group so strong. They bring joy and a bit of madness and we, the oldest ones, give the experience of knowing how to be in a club like this,” he said.

Best goalkeeper of the Portuguese championship

Adam League champion was proclaimed with the Sporting last season and was chosen as the best goalkeeper in the Portuguese championship, after conceding 19 goals in 32 games and leaving a clean sheet 19 times.

This season, the Sporting is tied on points with the Porto at the top of the rankings and Adam has suffered 4 goals in 11 games.

The Madrilenian debuted in the Real Madrid C in the 2004-2005 season, in which he remained for two seasons as a starting goalkeeper, before moving on to the first team.

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During the stage of Jose Mourinho He wore number 13 in the merengue team, in which he debuted in an official match of the Champions League and in which he was gaining the trust of the Portuguese coach, who in 2012 preferred it against Iker Casillas in several matches of the Spanish League.

In 2013 he announced his signing for the Cagliari, of the Italian Serie A, in which he stayed for a season before arriving at the Real Betis, with whom he was until 2017, when his signing for the Atlético de Madrid.

His journey with Atlético de Madrid ended in 2020, when he signed for the Sporting.