{"id":1395,"date":"2026-05-13T15:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:54:54","slug":"the-surprise-visit-of-the-champions-finalist-mosquera-on-his-day-off-with-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=1395","title":{"rendered":"The surprise visit of the Champions finalist Mosquera on his day off with Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph ue-c-article--first-letter-highlighted\">The defender C<strong>Risthian Mosquera<\/strong> This Tuesday he made an unexpected visit to the <strong>Paterna Sports City<\/strong>on the eve of the match <strong>Valencia against Rayo<\/strong>. The Alicante center back, currently in the ranks of the <strong>Arsenal<\/strong>took advantage of a day of rest to return to what was his place of training and meet up with old colleagues.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">&#8220;I&#8217;m very happy. I&#8217;ve had a day of rest, I&#8217;ve come to clear my head. And nothing, <strong>greet colleagues<\/strong>&#8220;As I told you,&#8221; said the footballer when asked. <u>Radio MARCA Valencia<\/u>.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\"><strong>Mosquera, 21 years old<\/strong>crosses a<strong> important season<\/strong> after his <strong>transfer from Valencia to Arsenal in the summer of 2025.<\/strong> In his first campaign in <strong>Premier League,<\/strong> The centre-back has participated in 34 official matches, divided between the league, cups and European competition, accumulating almost <strong>1,850 minutes of play<\/strong>. In the English league he has made 18 games (809 minutes), alternating starts and substitutes, while in the Champions League he has played 9 games (493 minutes), contributing to the London team&#8217;s journey to the final, despite the enormous competition for the central position in the Gunners squad.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">His role in the team <strong>Mikel Arteta<\/strong> has been that of a footballer in the process of <strong>adaptation<\/strong>but at the same time with a<strong> undisputed prominence in the rotation<\/strong> defensive and<strong> good numbers<\/strong>as reflected in their records <strong>recoveries <\/strong>and its high percentage of <strong>success in the pass <\/strong>in Europe, as the statistics on UEFA.com highlight.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">At the international level, Mosquera has already made the leap to s<strong>Spanish absolute election<\/strong>with two caps in 2026, after having been a regular in the lower categories, <strong>especially in the Sub 21<\/strong>. His progression comes after consolidating himself in the <strong>Valencia<\/strong>where he disputed <strong>more than 40 official matches <\/strong>in the 2024\/25 season before being transferred to English football.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The defender CRisthian Mosquera This Tuesday he made an unexpected visit to the Paterna Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1395","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\/1395","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=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}