Loren Zúñiga, fourteenth ‘academic’ renewed by Manolo Gaspar

Loren Zúñiga has become the fourteenth youth squad that Manolo Gaspar has renewed since he was Málaga's sports director. In just one year in office he has managed to tie Kellyan (on loan to Ibiza), Hicham, Ismael Casas, Juande, Cristo, Haitam, Larrubia, Ramón, Julio, Gonzalo, Kevin, Ale Benítez and, of course, Luis Muñoz. Loren Zúñiga is another 'academic' tied up, in this case, until June 30, 2024.

This interesting player is defined in these extremely interesting data provided by the club. “Pure center forward, his relationship with the goal is innate and more than proven these years in the lower categories. Without going any further, this 20/21 campaign debuted with Juvenil ‘A’ in the Honor Division scoring four goals (accumulates 19 in total) in his first game under the command of Nacho Pérez Santamaría. In the same way, they played the first league match for Atlético Malagueño in the Third Division ”.

Last Sunday he made his debut in Las Gaunas against Logroñés. He left at 81 'instead of Caye Quintana. It is the eleventh subsidiary to take the field of play in a season where Sergio Pellicer has already used, at least one minute, 33 players and called 43.

Born in Fuerteventura in 2003, Loren Zúñiga is the son of a former Málaga player with the same name.and. The young player gave a few words to the club's official media, MCFTV, which we reproduce for their interest. “This is my ninth season here. Very happy with the progression that I have had. I was born in Fuerteventura, but I came to Malaga as a child and I consider myself from Malaga. Every year that passes has made me better. There are players like Ramón, Ismael … very young and playing with the first team. To follow his example and keep working hard. I am a forward, a finisher, very versatile, who knows how to throw off the mark, with good hitting… My goal is to keep improving to keep growing in football and in every way ”.