Javi Gracia, technician of the Valencia, presented this Saturday, in the third friendly of the Che team this preseason against the I raised (0-0), a starting eleven full of youths from the quarry who placed the average age only slightly above the bar for twenty
years.
The decision of the Basque coach had to be due, among other things, to the fact that the team had played another friendly (victory 1-2 against Villarreal) just 24
hours
before. But in this eleven headline, in addition and in line with the young age of its members, another fact stood out.
And is that Kang
In
read, the young South Korean of just 19 years old, put on the bracelet for the first time captain from the Mestalla complex. Anecdote, no doubt. But demonstrative of the role that the club wants to assign to one of the greats (if not the greatest) bet of the last few years.
(+) Look at the summary of Levante – Valencia:
Kang In is ‘untouchable’For the property of the Levantine team, which sees in him a player of great projection, whom they want to turn into a pennant in the medium term. At Referrer of the new Valencia that must arise from the departure of players such as Equal, Coquelin or Rodrigo.
The dosage that the South Korean did Marcelino García Toral, who did not give him the minutes that from the top of the club were considered appropriate, was one of the keys that, informally, explained at the time the departure from the Asturian coach of Valencia after the first three days of the last league. Three matches in which Kang In Lee accumulated barely 7
minute against Mallorca after being out of the list against Real Sociedad and not leaving the bench in Balaídos.