Alex Valera: the treasure striker of the U and the importance of returning abroad soon | CHRONICLE

My brief answer, a controversial answer, is that there are plenty of Universitario’s enemies who at this time, and the rest of the week, will delve into his emotional instability, that match that lights his head, what some already call Paolo Guerrero syndrome. And that the fans who today celebrate the 3-0, and the momentary first place in the Apertura -28 points, against 27 for Alianza-, have all Sunday to remember the treasure they have at home with the number 20.

The match

Valera made the first 45 minutes of the game forget, or are summarized in two lines: a Boys with an attitude to harass, especially Calcaterra and a clock that challenged them how long they could endure the display. He said that Sanguinetti in the end: “We can’t stand it”. The Boys did not have much more, and we had to wait for the reconsideration of Jorge Fossatiless of name and more of intention: the ‘U’ plays with Santa Fe on Thursday for Copa Sudamericana and the head of the group seemed more focused on that day than on Saturday’s proceedings, before 28,000 people, at the Monumental. Play less in second and more in fifth.

until it appeared Alex Valera and his 30th goal on the day of his 60th match with the ‘U’.

First, a big head, that virtue that he trained a lot with Gregorio, saved with Compagnucci and has recovered with Fossati. Then, the whiplash, a memory that Valera has as a legacy of beach soccer, where in a square meter they have to articulate speed and power, plasticity with musculature, and take out the shot. The third explains the nature of his confidence: a cross from the Chilean Ureña at medium height that the 20 of the ‘U’ defines with the heel, as if more than a cardiac match for League 1 it was a showball exhibition.

He was born in Pomalca, he did not play inferior although he wanted to be 10 and he will just turn 27 next 16. His curious biography, with brief steps in Copa Peru and a stay as a beach soccer teacher in China, is a lesson for a medium that has not yet You can identify your best talents in the province. And that in the case of the 9 of the ‘U’ is, in itself, a feat. Now that he’s back, and after his controversial departure to Arabia last year, he apologized, trained like no one else and accepted that he won’t always start. And that when he plays, he must break it. The ‘U’ did not have a local 9 of that size, opportunistic and timely, since Johan Fano, when not being champion was not yet that anvil. He has added a gym to this game of beach soccer -to hold his back better- and many videos of Paolo -to master the passing game- And for this very reason, this is the limit moment for him, Alex Valera, to decide what kind of goalscorer wants to be One from home, who from knowing the medium so much can score with his eyes closed, or an international 9, which not only already costs a million dollars but also sets foot in Europe and justifies it. Something like that, as far as I know, he raised Juan Reynoso.

He has in Jorge Fossati the best possible coach to be one of the second.