Víctor Fernández (Valladolid, 2007) has to look like. The player of Levante –This week is a year after its signing- it is Víctor Fernández's sonformer soccer player Valladolid and Villarreal, among others. Genetics has left their mark on its factions and also in the way of playing. Although there is a difference that is obvious as soon as the first ball touches: “People who see me in the field tell me that I'm the same as my father. And that we make the same gestures and details. All the same, less than I am left -handed and the right hand”.
“We are very similar in the character”, Abounds Víctor Fernández Jr. “He engaged with everyone too. My father tells me that I have to calm down when things don't come out, I try to think about them cold that surely come out better. ”
On Friday, July 4, one year of the most transcendent decision of his life is celebrated: With 16 years he left the Valladolid quarry and signed for Levante to enter the dynamics of the first team. He debuted in Second (one minute in a match against Almería) and played the first part of the Cup tie against Pontevedra. The rest, bench. “It has been a difficult year personally,” the young footballer is recognized, “but I have learned a lot from all the people I have surrounded. I know that for a future it will be very good for me”.
Víctor Fernández, Levante player at the facilities of Interstar Sports.
This year in Levante it has been a difficult year personally, but I have learned a lot from all the people I have surrounded
Victor Jr. was typical Jugón from the Valladolid quarry: a Mediapunta Very skilled, of Impossible dribbles and video game goalswhom Nike had already shielded with a contract of Sponsorship at 15 years. Each category was small and in his last course in Valladolid, being cadetthe youth alternated with the subsidiary in Second RFEF. “That jump was very big, but I was very comfortable there and I had colleagues who had been friends who helped me a lot. In the second federation I found myself in many games To rivals who had faced my father too. I lived it naturally. I felt that I was prepared and that I could play. ”
Another thing was already the Levante in Second Divisionalthough he took the step convinced that he could play more: “I knew what was coming. But I also knew that I was going very well to be training all year in a professional team and in the afternoon I train alone, because I needed it. The rhythm is another, completely different,” he finishes.
Víctor Fernández, Levante player, poses for brand.
I have gained more weight and more muscle mass. Four or five kilos, sure. When I came here I was a child and now I have become stronger
The conversation takes place in the Headquarters and Sports Center that has the Footballest agency to intersect In Paterna (Valencia). There Víctor Fernández has passed many afternoons training to try reduce physical distance between a 16 -year -old boy In the middle of a professional workforce. “I followed a nutrition and preparation plan. I have gained more weight and more muscle mass. I would not know how exactly, but four or five kilos, surely when I came here it was a child and now I have become stronger. I have been all year for that, but I still have a lot to get”Explains the Levante footballer.
Left studies in First baccalaureateAlthough it does not rule out returning to the classrooms. What is clear is that the driving card As soon as he turns 18. “I have to approve it because if not, to Iborra I'm going to kill him. We lived nearby and I came to collect every morning to go to train. ”Those routes to Buñol have been full of confidences of veteran Valencian player. Although the best tips are still giving their father:“As a child I was angry with him when I tried to correct. Now, that I am already aware that anything that happens to me has already lived it, I hear it and try to do everything that tells me because I know that he wants the best for me. ”
Víctor Fernández, father and son, the day of the boy's signature for Levante.
I feel prepared, I think I have a level and that I can play. When the preseason arrives and the time to change airs or to continue it will be decided with the club
Víctor Fernández, as many footballer projects of his generation, finds no words to qualify the Lamine Yamal effect,born in 2007 like him: “It's a crazy thing, what makes it makes no sense. And it is also Cubarsí. They are two animals. Impossible to get what they do with our age. ”
The young footballer wants to have the feet on the ground. In a few days he returns to training with Levante in Primera, even more difficult: “I am calm I want to continue working and improving. This year I knew it was learning. I feel prepared, I think I have a level and that I can play. I will be calm when the preseason arrives and the time to change airs or continue here will already be decided with the club. ”
