Juan Carlos Valeron is a famous Spanish footballer. He played as a midfielder. Player in the national team.
Soccer player biography
Juan Carlos Valeron was born in 1975. He was born on one of the Canary Islands called Gran Canaria, in the town of Arginegin. He took his first steps in football at the Las Palmas Club Sports Academy.
He made his debut in professional sports in 1995, when he was 20 years old. Juan Carlos Valeron held the match in the second Spanish division.
In 1997, he moved to the more famous Mallorca team. In the form of this club first entered the field at the end of the match against “Valencia” in August 1997. Teams at that time played in the highest Spanish division. The game ended with the victory of Valeron's squad with a score of 2: 1. For “Mallorca” it was a very successful season. According to its results, the team took fifth place and received a ticket to the Cup of Cups.
Career in Madrid
Juan Carlos Valeron showed himself well in “Mallorca”. Spent 36 matches in which he scored three times. At the end of the season, Madrid acquired Atletico. At that time it was a very weak team, which in the 1999/2000 season flew into the second division, taking the penultimate place.
Juan Carlos Valeron, whose photo is in this article, did not begin to go down. Instead, he signed a contract with Deportivo from A Coruña. In his first season at this club, he won the Spanish Super Cup, and won silver medals in the championship. At the finish, “Deportivo” lost to Real Madrid 7 points.
In the club, Valeron came to the position of the famous Brazilian midfielder Jalminho, who was a fan favorite. But soon he had to give way to the main character of the hero of our article.
Soon, Valeron extended the contract with Deportivo until 2011, saying that he wants to play in the team until the end of his career.
Series of injuries
Failures began to haunt the player, starting in 2006. In the first month of the year he received several injuries, was eliminated for almost a year and a half. Only in the 2008/2009 season did he return to the main team.
True, by then, “Deportivo” stopped fighting for first place in the championship, ending up only in seventh place at the end of the season. Outside the Eurocup zone.
The season 2010/2011 turned out to be completely failed. At the very beginning of the tournament distance, “Deportivo” was in the relegation zone. The importance played what role played in the team of Juan Carlos Valeron. The football player helped the club to get out to round 10 to a comfortable 15th place. But the team was unable to completely secure itself. At the end of the season, a series of defeats followed, due to which the “Deportivo” flew to Segunda B.
Valeron this time went with the team to the second Spanish division. And in the first year he achieved the return to the elite of Spanish football. “Deportivo” took first place in Segund B, having won 29 victories in 42 matches. But at the end of the 2012/13 season, the team again went down in the classroom.
38-year-old football player announced his retirement. 13 years gave “Deportivo” Juan Carlos Valeron. The statistics are impressive. 328 matches in which he scored 22 goals.
True, he could not part with big sports. Signed a contract with Las Palmas. Finally, Valeron left football only in 2016, when he was 41 years old. For his last club, he managed to hold another 82 matches, in which he scored three times.
The game in the national team
In the Spanish national team, Valeron made his debut in 1998, when he played in the Madrid “Atletico”. It was a friendly game with the Italian team, which ended in a draw 2: 2.
In 2002, he went to the World Cup in Japan and South Korea. In the first match of the group stage he took part in the victory over Slovenia (3: 1), scoring a goal in the 44th minute. In the playoffs, the Spaniards came out of first place.
In the 1/8 finals, the Irish put up stubborn resistance. The main and extra time ended in a draw 1: 1. In the penalty shootout, Valeron, like Juanfran, missed from the 11-meter mark, but their opponents were even more wasteful without scoring three penalties.
In the quarter finals, the story repeated. Once again, only a penalty shootout determined the winner in the game with South Korea. This time everything was decided by the mistake of Joaquin, Spain flew from the mundial.
In 2004, at the European Championships in Portugal, Valeron scored the only goal in the game with the Russian team. True, the Spaniards this victory did not help to leave the group, they took only third place, missing the Greeks and Portuguese.
In total, the hero of our article spent 46 matches for the national team, in which he scored 5 goals.