2023-10-09 08:36:02
David Raya It is the sum of many things. “From the illusion of a child of Corbera de Llobregat who started playing at school Cornellà to one day be the national team’s goalkeeper. That of a teenager who went to England to fulfill his dream of being a footballer. And that of a footballer who decided that he would not move from there until he achieved promotion to the Premier.” His tattooed body hides the road map of that path that turns ten years out of Spain. “A path that I have always enjoyed. Since I moved alone, when I went on loan to the 5th division, when we didn’t manage to go up to Premier, when we managed to get out of the Championship… All experiences teach you and make you a better person and player. I keep the good and learn from the bad, you always have to get a constructive reading. Work always pays and what is happening to me is a beautiful example of that.”
Praise from Klopp and Luis Enrique
Today David has managed to get that boy from Cornellà arrives at a National Team that will face Albania this Saturday at home, that teenager has a football career and that goalkeeper is promoted to the Premier League. That is why now he is focused on the following objective: “I am not coming to the National Team by the way. I want to earn my place and show that I have the level to be here. That’s why I train to the maximum.” Raya is a goalkeeper “because someone had to stop the shots of my brother, who was a striker. Although later, on the weekends, when we played indoor soccer, he was a field player. From the age of 6 to 15 I have always played outside the goal and I then worked on that in training. That explains my footwork, I feel comfortable.” Klopp warned after a Liverpool match against him Brentford that “his goalkeeper (for Raya) could play with the 10” and Luis Enrique has praised his footwork, which allows him to generate superiority in getting the ball out.
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He states that he is “cold-blooded, although more than that, I would say that I have confidence in myself. I am aware that there are always errors and that we must deal with them. You are going to make a bad pass and it is normal for it to cost you a goal. But the most important thing is to have confidence in yourself. The head is one of the most important things in football. The pressure exists, but it is what you put on yourself. I tend to be calm, although I know that, as a goalkeeper, our position is critical because a mistake can be lethal.” He says he has learned “from every locker room I have been in, from all the technicians and all the goalkeeping coaches. I like to observe different ways of playing football”, and he does not hide that his idol was “Iker Casillas, for what he achieved with the Selection and Real Madrid. And because of how he achieved it.” Raya adds reluctantly, “they know me more there than here because you don’t follow the Championship”. To then conclude emphatically: “The Premier “It is the best league in the world, the most attractive for a player.”
This Saturday, this 26-year-old Catalan with an Andalusian family will become the improvised host of the National Team on his return to Catalonia 18 years later after the untimely injury of ‘parakeet’ Raúl de Tomás. ‘Cornellà’s wall’, as we renamed it to his laughter while the photographer took his picture in front of a wall, is “looking forward to Saturday. It will be a special moment. 18 years ago Spain does not play in Catalonia and surely Cornellà It will be filled with fans to help us. “My family and friends will be there.” And if Luis Enrique deems it appropriate, he will make his debut fulfilling his dream, but, above all, that of his grandfather: “He told me that he can now die peacefully. And he excited me because he took me to training when my parents couldn’t as a child. He deserves it “. He says goodbye with a handshake of the kind that someone who has things clear gives you.
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