Valencia: An Ecuadorian Star Shone in World Football

Last Wednesday, the Old Trafford Stadium called the ‘Theatre of Dreams’, bore witness of one of the best plays of a footballer of Manchester United in the current Champions League. The first actor and main character of the work performed by Manchester was Antonio Valencia.

The player, born in Lago Agrio-Ecuador, led the English to a 4-1 victory over Schalke 04 in the semifinal round of the Champions League. He scored the first goal; he gave the pass for the second and with many other successful passes he completed a third and fourth goal.

For his tremendous performance at the Union of European Football Association (UEFA), on its official website, through its experts, appointed him as the best player in the semifinal and scored him 8 points in the range established by the agency for players (8 to 10) “world class.”

The British daily The Sun called the tricolor “the star man in the dream team. He put a strain in everyone’s nerves when he grabbed Gibson’s pass, leaving behind defenders and put United ahead. “For Daily Telegraph, Valencia was “more persistent threat from the flanks of the United.

The tricolor is the first national player to reach the finals of the most prestigious and transcendence clubs in Europe.

Source: Daily El Universo