It was on the first day against Mallorca that Valverde gave Adu Ares an alternative to the Rojiblanca first team. This is the first debut this season. Then there is another one, that of Paredes. Arrigorriaga’s central defender has more experience than the striker from San Adrián, among other things because the central defender is a first-team player and the striker belongs to the reserve team.
The young player revealed in August afternoon after the game that “I am left with a bittersweet taste for not winning, although personally happy.” Adu confessed with an irremediable point of emotion that “many memories have come to my head, since I started in football. To be able to debut is a great joy”.
Born in Bilbao, he has Guinean descent through one of his parents and trained as a player in teams such as Danok Bat, Indautxu and Santutxu. Two seasons ago he caught the attention of Lezama coaches playing for the last club in the Third Division and joined Basconia that same summer. Players like Ibai Gómez, Unai Vencedor and Dani Vivian joined Athletic from Santutxu in the last decade.
After his debut against Mallorca, the man from Bilbao did not play a single minute in the first team. He was in two more calls: against Cádiz in San Mamés and in Vallecas in the last away. He did not play or warm up in either game.
Adu is player number 634 in Athletic history, he is number 71 in the ranking of players who played only one game in the entire history. Everything indicates that the footballer who grew up in the Santutxu youth academy will play another game in the first team, maybe even this season, or not. I wrote the same thing about Artola last season, and so far the player on loan from Burgos is holding the minutes he played in the Cup against Mancha Real.
Bet by Patxi Salinas
One of the main trainers in the development of Adu Ares in Lezama is Patxi Salinas. The then coach of Bilbao Athletic made him the top scorer for the rojiblanco subsidiary with six goals, despite playing fifteen games at CD Basconia. Valverde decided that he will conduct the preseason with Athletic and it is true that in recent weeks he has been in first-team dynamics.
With the coach from Gasteiz on the Athletic bench, 26 players made their debut. The last is Paredes, which we will write about next week, the first is Iraola and Jonan García, in the match against FC Barcelona that ended in defeat. The following made their debut with Txingurri from the current squad: Yeray, Vesga, Lekue and Iñaki Williams. Villalibre, on loan at Deportivo Alavés, is also one of Valverde’s rookies.
Last season, with Marcelino as coach, there were five debuts (Julen Agirrezabala, Vivian, Nico Serrano, Petxa and Artola). Of this there have been two, and it looks like there won’t be many more. It seems. If I wrote it five, imagine there are two. To me, to be honest, not much flavor for a youth team. Even though I don’t want to debut for the sake of debuting either. This is a debate to study. It doesn’t matter on other Thursdays.
Source: La Verdad
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