{"id":1007,"date":"2026-03-31T05:14:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:14:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:14:49","slug":"a-photo-that-has-aged-poorly-for-valencia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=1007","title":{"rendered":"A photo that has aged poorly for Valencia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph xai-icon-container ue-c-article--first-letter-highlighted\">He <strong>Valencia <\/strong>It was the club with the greatest and best representation in the Spanish team in the <strong>last European Sub<\/strong><strong>21<\/strong>played last summer:<strong> Diego L\u00f3pez (2002), Javi Guerra (2003), C\u00e9sar T\u00e1rrega (2003) and Cristhian Mosquera (2004)<\/strong> They posed together for a photo that represented the <strong>bet <\/strong>of the black and white club for a generation of <strong>youth players<\/strong> who had taken a step forward in some difficult years.<span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph xai-icon-container\">The then coach, <strong>Saints D\u00e9nia<\/strong>he knew he could trust four players who had helped support his team in different critical stages in the League, with relegation at stake: \u201c<strong>It is important that they have minutes at the highest level<\/strong>&#8220;They are earning it with their work and with the coach&#8217;s trust.&#8221;<span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph xai-icon-container\">In the Under 21 European Championship last summer, in addition to the four footballers <strong>They were fixed,<\/strong> In the group stage they were chosen <u>&#8216;player of the match&#8217;<\/u><strong>Tarrega <\/strong>(vs. Slovakia) and <strong>Javi Guerra<\/strong> (against Romania). <span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph xai-icon-container\">They have passed <strong>300 days exactly<\/strong> from that photo that the <strong>Spanish Football Federation<\/strong> with the four Valencia players and that has certainly aged badly for the black and white club. Of the four, <strong>Flycatcher <\/strong>\u2013what was <strong>transferred to Arsenal in summer<\/strong>&#8211; has been released in this friendly window <strong>as an absolute international<\/strong>. And the other three<strong> They fell due to a generational issue:<\/strong> none could participate in the 2027 European Under 21 Championship (for those born from 2004 onwards).<span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<figure class=\"ue-c-article__media ue-c-article__media--image\">\n<div class=\"ue-c-article__media-img-container ue-l-article--expand-edge-right-until-tablet ue-l-article--expand-edge-left-until-tablet\"><picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1010px) 660px, (min-width: 980px) calc(100vw - 350px), (min-width: 740px) calc(100vw - 320px), 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/files\/article_360_widen_webp\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabaeab5d73.webp 360w,https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/files\/article_375_widen_webp\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabaeab5d73.webp 375w,https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/files\/article_414_widen_webp\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabaeab5d73.webp 414w,https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/files\/article_660_widen_webp\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabaeab5d73.webp 660w,https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/files\/article_720_widen_webp\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabaeab5d73.webp 720w,https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/files\/article_750_widen_webp\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabaeab5d73.webp 750w,https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/files\/article_828_widen_webp\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabaeab5d73.webp 828w,https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/files\/article_1320_widen_webp\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabaeab5d73.webp 1320w\"><source type=\"image\/png\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1010px) 660px, (min-width: 980px) calc(100vw - 350px), (min-width: 740px) calc(100vw - 320px), 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/files\/article_360_widen\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabaeab5d73.png 360w,https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/files\/article_375_widen\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabaeab5d73.png 375w,https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/files\/article_414_widen\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabaeab5d73.png 414w,https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/files\/article_660_widen\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabaeab5d73.png 660w,https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/files\/article_720_widen\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabaeab5d73.png 720w,https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/files\/article_750_widen\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabaeab5d73.png 750w,https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/files\/article_828_widen\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabaeab5d73.png 828w,https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/files\/article_1320_widen\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabaeab5d73.png 1320w\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1220\" height=\"693\" class=\"ue-c-article__image lazyload\" alt=\"The original photo as released by the RFEF.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabaeab5d73.png\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div><figcaption class=\"ue-c-article__media-caption\">\n<p><span class=\"ue-c-article__media-description\">The original photo as released by the RFEF.<\/span><span class=\"ue-c-article__media-source\"><span class=\"ue-c-article__media-author\">RFEF<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph xai-icon-container\">Neither does he<strong> team performance<\/strong> Not even the individual Diego L\u00f3pez, T\u00e1rrega and Javi Guerra would have placed them at any time as bets for Luis de la Fuente. The one that had the most consistency in the first part of the season \u2013 in which Valencia conceded quite a few goals \u2013 was <strong>Cesar Tarrega <\/strong>who, after being injured, has fallen out of Carlos Corber\u00e1n&#8217;s lineups. The Alaqu\u00e1s plant has participated in <strong>23 parties<\/strong> (1,786 minutes). It has had less regularity <strong>Diego Lopez<\/strong>. After a spectacular season <strong>2024-25 (8 goals and 5 assists)<\/strong>the Asturian attacker has been losing presence in the team this season in which he has been <strong>26 games (1,331 minutes, 3 goals).<\/strong><span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph xai-icon-container\">Another road with ups and downs has traveled <strong>Javi Guerra,<\/strong> who started out as a starter, stopped being one, even stayed in the <strong>dock <\/strong>some matches, and now he feels important again with Guido in the Valencian midfield. Gilet&#8217;s 8 carries <strong>28 League games (1,498 minutes, with one goal and three assists).<\/strong><span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph xai-icon-container\">Obviously it is almost impossible for <strong>in a World Cup year<\/strong> a team that has been fighting even in relegation positions provides players that attract the attention of a coach. Besides, <strong>the generational change has been interrupted<\/strong> also in the Valencia quarry.<span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph xai-icon-container\">After the summer, <strong>Mosquera not only stayed in the red<\/strong> already as captain, due to his experience and number of games. His recurring appearances with the <strong>Arsenal <\/strong>They have allowed Luis de la Fuente to also call him to the senior team and have him as a key asset for the future. The Alicante center back made his debut in the friendly match against Serbia on March 27 at La Cer\u00e1mica.<span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<figure class=\"ue-c-article__media ue-c-article__media--image\">\n<div class=\"ue-c-article__media-img-container ue-l-article--expand-edge-right-until-tablet ue-l-article--expand-edge-left-until-tablet\"><picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1010px) 660px, (min-width: 980px) calc(100vw - 350px), (min-width: 740px) calc(100vw - 320px), 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/files\/article_360_widen_webp\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabcf6e46c9.webp 360w,https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/files\/article_375_widen_webp\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabcf6e46c9.webp 375w,https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/files\/article_414_widen_webp\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabcf6e46c9.webp 414w,https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/files\/article_660_widen_webp\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabcf6e46c9.webp 660w,https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/files\/article_720_widen_webp\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabcf6e46c9.webp 720w,https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/files\/article_750_widen_webp\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabcf6e46c9.webp 750w,https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/files\/article_828_widen_webp\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabcf6e46c9.webp 828w,https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/files\/article_1320_widen_webp\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabcf6e46c9.webp 1320w\"><source type=\"image\/jpeg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1010px) 660px, (min-width: 980px) calc(100vw - 350px), (min-width: 740px) calc(100vw - 320px), 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/files\/article_360_widen\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabcf6e46c9.jpeg 360w,https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/files\/article_375_widen\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabcf6e46c9.jpeg 375w,https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/files\/article_414_widen\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabcf6e46c9.jpeg 414w,https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/files\/article_660_widen\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabcf6e46c9.jpeg 660w,https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/files\/article_720_widen\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabcf6e46c9.jpeg 720w,https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/files\/article_750_widen\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabcf6e46c9.jpeg 750w,https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/files\/article_828_widen\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabcf6e46c9.jpeg 828w,https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/files\/article_1320_widen\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabcf6e46c9.jpeg 1320w\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1551\" class=\"ue-c-article__image lazyload\" alt=\"Vicent Abril and Yarek Gasiorowski, with Spain Sub 21.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/30\/69cabcf6e46c9.jpeg\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div><figcaption class=\"ue-c-article__media-caption\">\n<p><span class=\"ue-c-article__media-description\">Vicent Abril and Yarek Gasiorowski, with Spain Sub 21.<\/span><span class=\"ue-c-article__media-source\"><span class=\"ue-c-article__media-author\">RFEF<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"ue-c-article__subheadline\">Vicent Abril, third goalkeeper in the Sub 21<\/h2>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph xai-icon-container\">With the new Under 21 coach, in this call there is only <strong>two players<\/strong> with some<strong> Valencian connection<\/strong>. The goalkeeper <strong>Vincent Abril<\/strong>in first team dynamics with <strong>Carlos Corberan<\/strong>after Agirrezabala&#8217;s injury, has been released <strong>on David Gordo&#8217;s list,<\/strong> as third goalkeeper. The other is <u>Yarek Gasiorowski (2005)<\/u>, <strong>transferred to PSV<\/strong> In the summer, he started with the Dutch team and was a permanent fixture in the red team. Yarek, in fact, did start playing in the League and Champions League with the Dutch club, although he has been alternating for a few days <strong>with the bench<\/strong>.<span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph xai-icon-container\">Neither <strong>Jos\u00e9 Luis Gay\u00e1<\/strong> has recovered the level that made him permanent in the senior team and for which Luis de la Fuente was willing to wait for him before the <strong>Euro 2024<\/strong> when he was seriously injured (and had to undergo surgery) before the end of the season.<span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph xai-icon-container\">Valencia now hopes that <strong>the bet<\/strong> that the technicians did in their day -Guerra and T\u00e1rrega debuted in the League with <strong>Deck<\/strong>; Diego L\u00f3pez, with <strong>Gattuso<\/strong>&#8211; and the club last summer, with the three renewals, served to take advantage of the maturity of these players with optimal performance in the team.<span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He Valencia It was the club with the greatest and best representation in the Spanish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}