Daniel Vivian is number 3 in Athletic. The central defender from Vitoria celebrates his third season with that number. After the departure of Unai Nuñez, who is now with him in a dressing room, the red and white international left the number 12.
Vivian made his Athletic debut with the number 28, but in the Spanish team, after missing Tuesday’s match against Serbia, in Mirandés when he was on loan and even in Bilbao Athletic he played a lot in the number 5 , the number most closely related. in a central defender, really. It is now owned by Yeray Álvarez.
We’ll see what happens in the future, but for now the stripes are the stripes. Although at the rate that the player from Vitoria is going in terms of performance, weight in the locker room and so on, he lacks a little, with Yeray’s permission, to be, if not already, a man with stripes. Valverde already said this a few weeks ago. “Vivian is insurance. For us it is a major stronghold. His level of concentration throughout the game is not easy,” said the red and white coach.
And Vivian is alive. Or the feeling it gives. The games, the training sessions, the friends, the press conferences, the interviews, everything at Lieutenant was intense. A football gig. A man who lived what he experienced in football.
We come to the point, what the great Joaquín Caparrós would say before an interview: Which Athletic player do you associate with number 3? I have very clear. And I hardly experienced anything except Aitor Larrazabal. Left back, with 445 official matches in the first team, 43 goals, many of them from eleven meters.
It was the best thing about last weekend, by the way, that Athletic didn’t miss any maximum penalties. Let’s see what happens on Saturday if there is a match against Spain. Let Loiu come out, throw and bring out the pacifier to celebrate.
Lizarazu arrived with the reputation of a good player, which he was, but in Bilbao he didn’t get the good wave and made Larrazabal play that season with number 10. Almost nothing. He spent up to five seasons with that special football number. I don’t remember it being that long, to be honest.
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Another Athletic 3 that I experienced and loved, although he also rose to fame at number 19 was Asier del Horno. He spent just two seasons in that number at the red-and-white club: the one before he signed for Chelsea and the campaign Gallarta returned to Bilbao after his time at the English club and Valencia. What conditions Del Horno has!
The other famous player who wore this number in the club’s history was Jesús Garay, transferred to Barcelona for 5.5 million pesetas, a fortune for that time (1960) and which led to the construction of a grandstand in the old San Mamés , the traditional tribune of Mercy. Txato Nuñez, undoubtedly, another great Athletic player to wear the number 3 in Javier Clemente’s League and Cup champion team in the 80s. It is true that he shared the number with the current coach of Espanyol, Luis de la Fuente, who he is also in charge of wearing that number.
I would like to highlight two other players who wore 3: Mario Bermejo, a forward with a number that is not suitable for that position, and Koikili Lertxundi, a player who was forged in mud and spent up to five seasons at Athletic .
Mikel Balenziaga, almost always with 24, or the current left back, Yuri Berchiche, with 12, are players that Athletic have and have and have not yet worn the number 3. There is hope, and that is why why did that bet with its signing, in Adama Boiro. Right now, Valverde is giving him the ball. It won’t be something from another Thursday.
Source: La Verdad
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