That tango in Paris

In the past decade, few Spanish footballers aimed as high as Jesé Rodríguez, cheeky Gran Canaria striker who never played in the lower categories of Las Palmas, jumping directly from Huracán, his home club and one of the most traditional entities of island grassroots football, to the Valdebebas Sports City to become a legend of the lower categories of Real Madrid.

Once he made the leap to the first high team, despite never running as an undisputed starter, it is not that he could have more competition, the 'Bichito', began to aim so high that his presence in the World Cup in Brazil was taken for granted, in 2014, until a serious knee injury shattered his sweetest international dreams.

After a tough recoveryHe even won a Champions League with Real Madrid in time, the one from that 2016 final won by penalties against Atlético de Madrid, but that day he had to settle for staying on the bench.

Truncated his dream to stay in Madrid, that summer he was transferred to Paris Saint Germain, that at that time he was already involved in his particular assault on the European skies based on petrodollars and lavishness. It was there, in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, where he lived his first international experience and became a disciple of Juan Carlos Carcedo, at that time Unai Emery's second coach and today UD Ibiza's top sports manager. “I know very much the great Ibiza coach (Juan Carlos Carcedo), he was my second coach at PSG”, Jesé himself remembered this week.

Nor is it that they coincided for a long time, since In that winter market, the forward arrived on loan to Las Palmas, and the following season, 2017/2018, he spent the entire season on loan at Stoke City, this being also the second and last of the Emery-Carcedo tandem at PSG. A year later they separated their paths definitively, as the latter two left for Arsenal and Jesé returned to PSG again, although he left a few months later on loan to Betis.

Gran Canaria.

The common past of Carcedo and Jesé, although at different times, is not limited only to Paris. It so happens that both of them put on the Las Palmas shirt. Jesé in the aforementioned time and also since the last winter market, and Carcedo 16 years ago. Today's Ibiza coach He played in Las Palmas in the 2005/06 season, which concluded with the last promotion to the Second Division of the Gran Canaria entity. Ironies of fate, his obvious physical problems including knee injury 'prostrated' him bench… of the Deportiva Union itself as Visjnic's second, later dismissed, and after Juanito Rodríguez. A) Yes, It was on the island where he made his first steps as a coach. After a fruitful career in the shadow of Unai Emery, for two seasons he could not do better at the head of UD Ibiza. Tomorrow will be more than welcome in what was once his home.