Juan Carlos Valeron is a famous Spanish football player. Acted as a midfielder. Player in the national team.
Biography of a football player
Juan Carlos Valiron was born in 1975.He was born in one of the Canary Islands, called Gran Canaria, in the town of Arginegin. The first steps in football made in the sports academy of the club "Las Palmas".
In professional sports he made his debut in 1995, when he was 20 years old. Juan Carlos Valeron played the match in the second Spanish division.
In 1997, moved to a more famous team"Mallorca". In the form of this club for the first time came on the field in the end of the match against "Valencia" in August 1997. Teams at that time played in the highest Spanish division. The game ended in victory for Valeron's team with a score of 2: 1. For "Mallorca" it was quite a successful season. As a result, the team took the fifth place and got a ticket to the Cup Winners' Cup.
Careers in Madrid
Juan Carlos Valeron showed himself well in"Mallorca". Spent 36 matches in which he scored three times. At the end of the season he was acquired by Madrid "Atletico". At that time it was quite a weak team, which in the season 1999/2000 flew to the second division, taking the penultimate place.
Juan Carlos Valeron, whose photo is in thisarticle, I did not go on a decline. Instead, he signed a contract with Deportivo from La Coruña. In his first season in this club, he won the Spanish Super Cup, and won silver medals in the championship. At the finish, "Deportivo" lost to Madrid "Real" 7 points.
In the club, Valeron came to the position of the famous Brazilian midfielder Jalminiu, who was the favorite of the fans. But soon it had to give way to the main part of the hero of our article.
Soon, Valeron extended the contract with Deportivo until 2011, saying that he wants to play in the team before the end of his career.
Traumatic Injury
Failures began to pursue the player, starting in 2006of the year. In the first month of the year, he received several injuries, dropped out almost for a year and a half. Only in the 2008/2009 season he returned to the main team.
However, by the time the "Deportivo" stopped fighting for the first place of the championship, having ended up in the season only in seventh place. Outside the European Cup zone.
Вовсе провальным выдался сезон 2010/2011.At the very beginning of the tournament distance, "Deportivo" was in the relegation zone. Of great importance was the role played by Juan Carlos Valerón in the team. Footballer helped the club to get to the 10th round for a comfortable 15th place. But the team was not able to secure itself. In the end of the season followed by a series of defeats, because of which the "Deportivo" flew to Segunda B.
Valeron this time went with the teamin the second Spanish division. And in the first year he achieved a return to the elite of Spanish football. "Deportivo" took first place in Segunda B, having won 29 victories in 42 games. But at the end of the 2012/13 season, the team again went down in the class.
The 38-year-old has announced his retirement. 13 years gave "Deportivo" Juan Carlos Valeron. The statistics are impressive. 328 matches in which he scored 22 goals.
True, he could not part with the big sport.I signed a contract with "Las Palmas". Finally, Valeron left football only in 2016, when he turned 41 years old. For his last club, he managed to hold 82 more matches, in which he scored three times.
Playing in the national team
In the Spanish national team Valeron made his debut in 1998, when he played in Madrid "Atletico". It was a friendly game with the team of Italy, which ended in a draw 2: 2.
In 2002, he went to the World Championship inJapan and South Korea. In the first match of the group stage took part in the victory over Slovenia (3: 1), scoring a goal on 44 minutes. In the playoffs the Spaniards came from the first place.
In the 1/8 finals stubborn resistance hadIrish. The main and extra time ended in a draw 1: 1. In the penalty shootout, Valeron, like Huangfran, missed the 11-meter mark, but their opponents were even more wasteful, not having scored three penalties.
In the quarter finals history repeated itself. Again, only a penalty shootout determined the winner in the game with South Korea. This time, all decided to miss Joaquin, Spain flew from mundialya.
In 2004, at the European Championships in PortugalValeron scored the only goal in the game with the Russian team. True, this victory did not help the Spaniards out of the group, they took only third place, having missed the Greeks and the Portuguese.
In all for the national team, the hero of our article spent 46 matches, in which he scored 5 goals.
