The first flight of the new star of La Real went to Elche, where the chords of an old rocker await. David Silva Y J
uan Francisco Martínez Modesto, better known as Child, they meet again at the Martínez Valero championing the voice of experience. Far from being fifth, they take six years, although they can say when they greet each other, without fear of being wrong, that they have been hardened in 1,260 battles.
David Silva added the 512th official match of his career in his debut with Real Sociedad. TO Child They contemplate 748. More than a thousand between the two. The Gran Canaria has levitated around the soccer firmament, winning titles everywhere with Valencia, Manchester City or the absolute Spanish team. The trajectory of the Almeria responds to a more underground profile. Elche, Levante, Tenerife, Osasuna and again Elche have led him through the wire that mediates between the most modest corners of Primera and the nobility of Segunda, if it exists.
How Silva He decided to continue his long career in the Premier and Nino has lavished himself in the silver category, it is not that the two veterans have crossed each other on excessive occasions on a pitch. Only in two. On October 3, 2004, a whopping 16 years ago, when the Arguineguín player was on loan to Eibar and the forward lived his first stage at Elche. Then on January 24, 2010, Silva Y Child they coincided again on the occasion of a Tenerife-Valencia held in a classic like Heliodoro Rodríguez López.
Nino was Merino's partner
Imanol Sheriff has summoned David Silva for the second time this season. The international laureate made his debut in Anoeta against Real Madrid, he was absent on the opening day of Valladolid, still a victim of covid-19, so it is his first trip as a Real footballer. “He's ready to play,” Orio's coach reflected yesterday, so the possibility that Silva start as a starter at Martínez Valero.
Child, for his part, is the center forward that Elche clings to. His unflagging nose, which translates into 232 goals as a professional. Three of them have been marked to the Real. All with Tenerife. And in Anoeta. In a realistic victory (2-1) in 2007 and in an insular bell of 2009 (1-2), when he redoubled his bill to desecrate the San Sebastian countryside.
The veteran Elche striker, who will start today, was a teammate of Mikel merino in Osasuna, at the beginning of the last decade, in the Second Division. Child He signed for the Navarrese the same summer in which Nacho Monreal he left Osasuna to stop at Malaga.