“The thing about Adam is spectacular”

Adam is completing a dream first year at Sporting de Portugal. He has conceded only 11 goals in 29 games in the Portuguese championship, being the goalkeeper with the least thrashed among the best leagues on the old continent. The goalkeeper, raised in the Real Madrid quarry, left Atlético at the end of last season and signed a year with Sporting. At 33 years old, he has already earned the renovation.

An old acquaintance of the goalkeeper has analyzed his present. Silvino Louro is one of the people who knows the goalkeeper best, he was his great supporter at Real Madrid, during Mourinho's time at the head of the team. It was they who made him debut in the Real Madrid first team and Louro, who worked with several goalkeepers from La Fábrica, had Adán as his favorite. The goal made his debut in 2011 at Real Madrid in a match against Espanyol due to the expulsion of Casillas. Mourinho even, in a moment of friction with Casillas, came to put Adán as a starter in a game in 2012.

Now his pupil is causing a sensation in Portugal and Louro celebrates it. “The thing about Adam is spectacular! I like to follow all the goalkeepers I have worked with. It is clear that, with so few goals conceded at this point, Adan is having a spectacular season. He has been one of the great pillars of Sporting, along with defense, because of the way they play and communicate. What is happening is not new to me. They play well, defend better and concede few goals. Sporting is to be congratulated for the excellent season they are having, “says the goalkeeping coach now at Al Hilal. Adan has been voted best goalkeeper in the Portuguese league for the third consecutive month. “It does not surprise me, the great goalkeepers always perform in the big teams,” says the coach.