The logo of the Premier League it is a lion with a crown on the head. The animal, drawn with color purple, appears in transmissions, medals, shields and any product linked to the successful English League, which has 3 200 million television viewers in the world.
The lion of the Premier also repeated in several of the objects that Antonio Valencia stores in its ‘museum of football’, as he calls it. The place, located in the lower part of your spacious house, on the outskirts of Quito, is a room full of nostalgia with t-shirts in eye-catching showcases with lights that highlight the reliefs of the garments.
Called attention two elastic Manchester United: the final 2009 against Barcelona and the last used ‘Toño’ in may of last year, in his tenth season with the club.
In the space there are medals, medals for player of the month, football shoes of former teammate as Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Ander Herrera, Michael Carrick, Paul Pogba. Throughout a trip of football.
“Were 14 years in England, where I learned a lot, grew up a lot and made great friends. That’s why, when I returned to the country I found it hard to watch matches of the Premier; I earned my nostalgia”, says the now player of Liga de Quito to this Newspaper, via telephone, last Monday.
The dialogue occurs while ‘Toño’ waiting for your meal in a restaurant of Kumbaya. Through the line we often hear people ask for an input squid and a chicken with pasta.
The passing of the months has become more flexible posture of Valencia, who says she will look to today the two parties with the prestigious tournament English) picks up on the activity, after the confinement by the coronavirus: Aston Villa vs. Sheffield and Manchester City vs. Arsenal.
In countercurrent to the steering wheel like the matches between clubs more discrete, more modest. Or Liverpool, or City. He is considered more a fan of the duels as the Sheffield. “It’s a matter of tastes. In these matches I enjoy more, I call more attention”.
But the commitments that matter most are those of the wanted to United. “When he was going on nostalgia I started to look at more matches of the team. Always encouraging from here to my former teammate and to the great fans of the team,” he adds.
The box of the ‘Red Devils’ will return to the pitch before the Tottenham Hotspursanother of the favourite teams of Valencia.
Why I like ‘Spurs’? By Jose Mourinho. Is a technical the that I admire and from who I learned many things. When I went to the Premier thanked him for everything and we have a good relationship,” says Valencia on the DT Portuguese, dual-monarch of the Champions League.
The United is the weakness of the ecuadorian. “Is Pogba, is Lingard (Jesse), Rashford (Mark) players that I know of since they were small. Are now consolidated and it is always a pride to see them in court.”
The player, born in Lago Agrio, highlights the organization, the punctuality and faithfulness of the fans in the tournament of the british. “There the people always accompanied and supported. It will be strange to see the stadiums empty”.
The contest has three ecuadorians: Leonardo Hood in the Wolverhampton, Jefferson Montero and Joel Valencia in the Championship (Second division). This last, she told him weeks ago to this Newspaper that every time someone learns that it is ecuadorian links with the ‘Toño’.
“I wish more players ecuadorians can go to the Premier. I always tell young people that you have to work”, aims ‘Toño’, who won nine crowns with the United. Several of these medals is seen in its museum.
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