With two titles in his showcase, the Polish League of 2018-2019 and 2020-2021, and the distinction of Best player and best midfielder of the Polish tournament of the 2018-2019 course, the Ecuadorian Joel Valencia has expressed his discomfort for those who detract the league in which he excelled.
At 27 years of age, the left winger plays for Alcorcón in the Spanish second division, but this end of the month his loan ends and he has to return to Brentford in England.
“It bothers me a lot that when some say that someone excelled in the English Championship (second division) or in Poland, they try to downplay what one has done in these leagues. If anyone else does, I congratulate them. If more than one does it, then I will say that it has been easy. Meanwhile, at the age of 23, I think I have some merit, “he said in an interview with the channel. Euro Latin.
Valencia was trained in the youth academy of Real Zaragoza, a club from which he left in 2014 to play first for the Málaga subsidiary and then for Logroñés. In February 2016 he went to Slovenia to play for FC Koper for a season and a half, before heading to Poland to wear the colors of Piast Gliwice, with whom he won two league titles and was chosen as the best player of the championship in 2019.
The last three seasons he was at Brentford, except for a brief six-month loan to Legia Warsaw, with whom he came to play a preliminary round of the UEFA Europa League.
In Alcorcón he accumulated 18 games in the six months that his assignment lasted. Once the championship was over, last May, he said goodbye to that Madrid club.
“I had debuted with the Spanish team and then Ecuador called me for the U-17 World Cup. At that moment I decided for sports because I saw in the long term that playing in a senior team, I was going to have more chances of being part of it than in Spain”, recalled the Quinindé native, Esmeraldas.
In the interview with Euro Latin expressed his desire to be part of the Ecuadorian team that will play the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
“Being in a National Team is always an illusion and if they call me and I’m fine, I’m willing to go without any problem. I have a thorn stuck that they have never called me. If I have been the best player in my country, at least give me a chance to go. If you are the best and they have never called me for something, it will be. You have to work on that to be in a call. It is a subject of a lot of press perhaps. But hey, that’s football and that’s how it works. In the end there is a coach who is the one who chooses and you have to respect him. He will have his reasons. There is always a little dot there,” he commented. (D)
Source: Eluniverso
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