5,180 days have passed since then koke debuted in Atlético de Madrid. A premiere to enter Camp Nou against him Barcelona and with Abel Resino at the bank. Vallecano played the last 19 minutes of the game. He even fought for the ball with some of the players he was watching Andres Iniesta. “It looks like it was done in Photoshop,” he confides in MD of the photo that both will see after the meeting.
Well, at the meeting in between Atlético de Madrid and Majorca He played his 600th match. A year ago he became the player who played the most official matches, and now he became the first to achieve such a number of matches. Because of this, the club had a detail on the captain in the 2nd minute. The video scoreboards focused on him and the audience gave him a standing ovation for singing his song. From the grass Vallecano responded by applauding them.
14 years passed between his debut and his 600th game, and the Atlético de Madrid has changed radically during this period. To get an idea we can check some important dates at its beginning. His first starting game came in 2010 with the Quique Sánchez Flores on the bench, the second coach he had, and the rojiblancos lost 0-3. This is his fourth game.
His first success didn’t come until 2011. He entered The Romareda 0-1 thanks to a goal from Omen. His first goal came a week later, against Seville and served to tie the game at two against the direct rival. At that time Quique This gave him a chance to start in two games. They were his eleventh and twelfth games.
That season, he finished playing 19 games and started nine with two goals and one assist. He seemed to make a place for himself in the team, but in the summer a new coach arrived. Gregorio Manzano was the coach who gave him the opportunity to play in his first game European Leaguebut he was also the technician who led him to ostracism.
He hardly had any minutes, and everyone indicated that in the 2011-12 winter market he would go to Málaga. But Diego Pablo Simeone He returned to the club to get the bench. This is the fourth coach I have had koke in the first team. Shortly after arriving, the Argentine asked him “do you want to succeed in Atlético de Madrid?”. koke He answered “yes.” And the rest is history. That response prevented Vallecano from wearing colors other than red and white. He joined the club when he was six years old and since then he has defended only the bear shield and the strawberry tree, the Spain and in the lower categories that in the Selection of Madrid.
Although until the departure of Diego Ribas The summer of 2012 was not when he became the undisputed starter under the orders of Cholo. With the Argentine, he won two Leagues, two Europa Leagues, two European Super Cups, a Copa del Rey and a Spanish Super Cup.
He is new Majorca He played his 600th game, but koke The only thing on his mind, whose contract expires this summer, is to continue making rojiblanco history. “It was something incredible, but it didn’t stop me from thinking about what I had done but about what I should do. This is a milestone to reach 600 games. But I repeat, I don’t think about what I have done, but what remains to be done,” he said a few days before.
Source: La Verdad
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