This season, I’m looking for intrastories related to the day current Athletic players made their debuts. All of them, even now, have had time among the elite like lions, some more, some less. I think there may be attention-grabbing names related to each star’s premiere. The established order is the numbers.
Number 17 this season belongs to Yuri Berchiche. The defender, according to Athletic’s official website, made his debut in the red and white team on August 20, 2018. Monday. It’s ten o’clock at night. Red and white. This is the first League game of the 2018-2019 season.
The one from Zarautz made his debut against Leganés in San Mamés. It was a debut with success. 2-1. Eduardo Berizzo gave him an alternative. Number 12. He started at left back. On that day, Unai Simón and Dani García also debuted. And there is a room.
Nolaskoain with Yeray are the center backs and De Marcos completes the back four with Yuri. His first game, his first yellow card as a red and white player after a hard tackle. Leganés’ goal started on their wing after the action of El Zhar, now without a team after the departure of Qatar’s Muaither, who went past him and the subsequent cross was completed by Jonathan Silva. On the left side of the team led by Pellegrino, not Pellegrini.
That Granada goal
Yuri Berchiche played 177 official matches for Athletic and scored 12 goals. Without a doubt, the most memorable, even for me, is what he achieved in Granada which meant qualification for the Cup final. He could have debuted years before as a lion, but an unpleasant incident marked his first stage in Lezama.
He was in the lower category between 2005 and 2007. He was under the command of Julen Guerrero in the youth A team. In 2006, after a match in Irún, he tried to attack the referee. Yuri recognized his mistake and spent four months without playing. After two seasons at Lezama, he went to Tottenham to play in the reserve team.
In the rest of the sport, on the day that Yuri debuted for Athletic, Mundo Deportivo cover news that Busquets and Barcelona will sign an improved contract with a new clause: 500 ‘kilo’. The Catalan midfielder now plays for Inter Miami alongside Messi, Alba and Luis Suárez.
I have always maintained that Yuri for me is one of the most interesting signings of recent seasons. Josu Urrutia’s board of directors made it in 2018 around 24 million euros from PSG. The figure may have attracted attention at the time, but I think his acquisition more than compensated. There were moments when it was bad, very bad. It is true that he is old, but I consider, not at any price, that he could be a more interesting player to continue at Athletic.
The left-back is another one whose contract expires in June, but his future seems linked to Bilbao, at least for one more season. Hopefully, Imanol will learn from Yuri, the good, which he has a lot of, and the bad, which sometimes also offers some ‘berchichada’. It won’t be something from another Thursday.
Source: La Verdad
I am Shawn Partain, a journalist and content creator working for the Today Times Live. I specialize in sports journalism, writing articles that cover major sporting events and news stories. With a passion for storytelling and an eye for detail, I strive to be accurate and insightful in my work.
