2024-08-26 21:33:38
Rayo Vallecano It is a private club. Since its inception, the painting from the southeast of Madrid has always gone against the current. In a monarchical, conservative and elitist country like Spain in the 1920s, “El Matagigantes” was born as an identification mark of the working class, the workers who lived in the Puente de Vallecas sector, which was a “marginal” area of it. the Spanish capital that Franco bombed during the Civil War.
Since its foundation on May 29, 1924, Rayo has remained true to its philosophy: not just football, results, and business matters. In the institution there are fundamental issues that are more relevant to its followers: social struggle, class consciousness. The result of this was that the Vallecano team and their followers were always associated with the political left, who used to vote en bloc during the elections in Madrid.
It is also a result of his fans being special, demanding. When Rayo fans disagree with the decisions made by Spanish businessman Raúl Martín Presa, the club’s president and largest shareholder since 2011, they usually protest angrily.
In 2017, when the manager wanted to sign the Ukrainian Zozulya Romanianwho openly said he had an affinity for Nazism, the fans hung banners that said: “Vallecas is no place for Nazis. Prey, not for you either. Go now!”
For that reason, not just any player comes to Rayo. In the new team James Rodriguez It is not only what the footballer can do on the field that is important, but also how he lives, how he thinks, who he is outside the playing field. The Colombian midfielder, 33 years old, will be the fifth Creole to experience this point, to wear the shirt of the Vallecano team.
Rodríguez arrived Rayo Vallecanofour Colombians went through that club. The most recent and remembered is the Samario in front Radamel Falcao Garcíatoday in Millionaires.
The Creole attacker, top scorer in the history of the Colombian National Team with 36 goals, played three seasons (between 2021 and 2024) with the shirt of the Madrid team, a friend of the team since its creation. athletic (where El Tigre shone), and not very close to the Real Madrid. With Rayo, Falcao played a total of 71 games. He scored nine goals in them.
Before Tigre in the Madrid team were the left backs Brayan Angulo, Johan Mojica and the goalkeeper Luis Alberto García Pachecho.
Angulo was the first. The footballer born in Cali, but his Spanish nationality, wore the Rayo shirt between 2010 and 2011. However, he did not have much continuity (he only played 4 games), so he left the market the following for Atlético Baleares.
A few seasons later, Johan Mojica joined the Puente de Vallecas team, starting today with the Colombian National Team on the left wing. Cali landed in the Spanish capital in 2013, coming from Deportivo Cali. In his first time with the team, which lasted until 2014, he played 15 games.
He then went to Real Valladolid for two seasons and in 2016 he returned to the Vallecas team, who played in the second division (that season he was promoted to the first division). Meanwhile, Barranquilla’s young goalkeeper Luis Alberto García Pacheco (26 years old), who came to Spain as a child, closes the list.
“Lucho”, as he is known in Spanish football, trained in the minor divisions of Rayo Vallecano. They featured the current Algeciras CF goalkeeper between 2012 and 2016. The Creole goalkeeper made his professional debut in 2015 with Rayo Vallecano B, making 40 appearances.
In 2018, the young Atlantic native moved to Sevilla B, in the second division of Spanish football. In 2020 he arrived at Deportivo de La Coruña. Then he wore the shirts of Ponferradina, Rayo Majadahonda and arrived in Algeciras.
Now James Rodríguez, one of the best Colombian footballers in history, will be in charge of highlighting the name of our country in front of one of the most intense fans in Spain and in a club that, since its foundation, has gone against the current . His hiring, at the age of 33 and despite his high salary, was the latest example of that.
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