José Angel ‘Cote’ Valdéswho debuted in professional football and retired from it – at the end of the last campaign – at the Real Sporting de Gijón, he militated, among others, in two ‘greats’ of Europe such as Rome and Porto and won, with the Spanish team, the European sub’21 of 2011. The Gijon defender, who also played – always in the first division – in the Royal Society, the Villarreal, the Villarreal He addresses different topics in an interview with the EFE agency that took place in Gijón, within the framework of an act in which he received the annual award delivered by Peña Isma.
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One of the questions was what players he had to cover and had preferred to never have to do it, in his left side position. “As everyone knows, it is Messi. It is that the rest were earthly (laughs). He was above. It is hard for me to think about others. Everyone gave you work, it is clear. But the one that was impossible (to cover) was Messi. By how it was placed inside the field, where it was located. Then I took the ball, I dribbled you … Messi was impossible to cover.”
