When the age of the rear shows your project

When Valencia beat them final titlein 2019, Ezequiel Garay I am 32 years old and Gabriel Paulistahis dance partner, is 28, quite young, like 25 of Carlos Marchena when he lifted the UEFA Cup in Göteborg, although he did so accompanied by an already veteran Roberto Fabián Ayala, 31 years old.

It didn’t happen when, at the age of 22, Miguel Tendillo He saved Valencia from relegation in the 1982-83 campaign on an agonizing final day, where his goal, a header against Madrid, combined with a carom of epic magnitude prevented Valencia from relegating Second Division for the first time in its history.

He couldn’t repeat history three seasons later, when he led a defense where they grew Fernando Giner, nearly 23 years old, or Quique Sánchez Flores22. The three are projects of great football players and they got used to playing for the Spanish team, although their time, perhaps, was not to live such a difficult situation like what they have to survive, the pressure of a project with a weak economy and no sporting origin.

The same is happening in this Valencia. Rubén Baraja came out Butarque with a line of three central formed by Valencian Yarek Gasiorowski19 years and eight months old, including the Valencian Cesar Tarrega, 22 years and seven months old, and with the man from Alicante Christian Mosquera20 years and only three months.

The trio led a defense that completed a great fight, especially Mosquera, who stopped the attacks of Sebastian Haller, runner-up in the Champions League with Borussia Dortmund, who did not even smell the ball, and continues to recover from last season’s level.

However, that average age of the defense, which in the glorious season for Valencia held or even exceeded thirty, is now barely in charge crossed the 20 year lineanother piece of information that reflects the project of a Valencia without directionwhich has accumulated a quarter of the League without starting and the sports planning is shown on the pitch every day.

Valencia has several center backs with a future more than hopebut very young and some full-backs – turned wing-backs – who continued to be indecisive at any point in the game, a fact confirmed by the five-goal contribution of Thierry Correia in 130 games as a Valencia player and Dimitri Foulquier’s four assists in 114 games.

Without selling this season, more Mamardashvilicontinuing on loan, Valencia insisted on strengthening themselves in the summer market, but the truth is that Germán Valera and Dani Gómez arrived after the Second Division, where they were far from the difference, while Rafa Mir, under investigation for an alleged sexual assault and who spent two nights in a cell at the beginning of September, was completely unnoticed on the lawn.

This Valencia, that was ninth last season, it already had a seventh day of relegation from the first nine in the League, while accumulating the worst scoring start in historynumbers showing the sporting project of a soulless club, de-capitalized course by course and fans with nothing to cling to.