“Yeremay is like the goal he scored: unpredictable and brilliant”

Few players have attracted as much attention and Riazor has taken them on with as much enthusiasm as Yeremay (Las Palmas, 2002). His sensational debut as a starter with Deportivo becomes the best calling card for a player who former teammates like Nic Clouston and Víctor Guerra, as well as coaches like Óscar Gilsanz and Javi Álvarez, describe as having all the conditions to succeed.

victorious war

“What will the boy from Abegond think now? He who follows, let him win”

“I watched his goal again and… I would have hit it first! Carrying the ball is not in my head, dribbling past the goalkeeper… and throwing Riazor,” admits Víctor Guerra, the current player of Arteix, who shared the dressing room with Yeremay in the youth team of Deportivo. “I was not surprised, because whoever sees him every day knows about what he’s capable of. When I was in Third and young, we all knew that if I wanted to, I’d come back from a game. He’s great for good and bad. What he did on Saturday as a starter… If he’s trusted , always responds. It didn’t take him more than a moment to return it, he said, before emphasizing: He’s gained a lot of maturity. He knows he’s covered, and he regains that confidence in just ten minutes!“, insists.

For a soccer player, the canary’s cocktail of success consists of talent and confidence in his qualities. “Everyone was asking for more minutes for him, but the one who arrived was Rubén de la Barrera and, sorry, with his balls he put two local players like him and Trilli in the eleven, and on top of that, Mella made his debut. What will the kid from Abegond think after this game? Whoever follows, may win. He gave Mella 20 minutes. We’re not used to that. The day that more, Yeremay was 10 or 15, but The coach didn’t look at anyone’s card“, he points out, and predicts more matches like this for his former teammate: “He will play again, and he will continue to play”.

call Alvarez

“Defensively, when he starts to steal or anticipate, he does it better than anyone else”

From his knowledge of the winger in the various positions he held at Deportiva’s youth academy, Javi Álvarez recognizes Yeremay’s personal maturation, but in football “he still has that natural talent, that confidence on the field, that perception that things are done differently from others in a reduced spaceas if you stop and dribble to score into an empty goal,” he says and remembers the flag goal that the Canarian scored on Saturday at Riazor. “I’m not surprised that now, in big spaces, with a bigger field and better footballers around him, he’s playing a match the way he played on Saturday against Algeciras, because the second time he came out and they gave him a penalty, or He scored a goal that was decisive”, he points out.

How else, the coach sees a lot of room for improvement and growth in the winger, but he insists that the defensive concepts for which he was praised this time are already part of his game today. “He’s a guy that defensively, when he interprets that he’s going to steal or pass, he does it better than anybody. When he catches, or sees the passing lane… He’s never had that job, or the need for high defensive runs, but in steal situations, when he puts his foot in, because he uses his body like that, he’s a big matchup winner. I insist, it’s not his strong point, but if he’s going to steal, he almost always takes it,” emphasizes the coach who sees Yeremay not only as a left winger, but also as an inside or attacking midfielder. “Now Soriano plays there, but if that position was available, it would be another alternative to consider in the center lane, because he has a very clear last pass and finds places that others can’t find,” he says.

Oscar Gilsanz

“He is very smart and recognizes when people are willing to understand what is happening to him”

“What was seen with Yeremayo in the game is what it is: more defensive responsibility, but in attack the same as always.” This is how Fabril’s coach, Óscar Gilsanz, describes the performance of the one who played under his bat in the youth teams and the branch. “The defensive aspect is the one that is improving, and in the game he was at a very high level,” points out the footballer who has gone through a period of maturity and knows what he needs, “and he does it without defeat. what he already has is great news for everyone ,” insists Gilsanz, who admits to having had many conversations with him. “He is a very smart boy, he recognizes when people help him and he is ready to understand what is happening to him. There are moments in every process, but he always tried to achieve that progress. The decisions that were made with him reflected on his advancement. It’s up to him to persevere,” he adds before calling for calm to continue progressing step by step in his football.

As he insists, the ownership of Yeremay and Trilli, as well as the emergence of Mella that followed, were not a flash in the pan: “In the quarry business, all the coaches these players had in training are very important. Not only the youth one and Fabril’s one. I never get tired of repeating that Abegond’s work is very good. This will continue to be the case, and we will continue to see good football players.”

Nico Clouston

“There are two key words in the jump he hit in these years: maturity and patience”

The Arteix football player was Yeremay’s teammate in the team that lifted the youth championship cup, and, he recalls with a laugh, his worst was on the day of the match in training. “If he wanted to, he would play the pipes, sing… Like the goal he scored: unpredictable and brilliant. We veterans suffered a lot, because we didn’t know where it would come from.“, he explains, before commenting that there are “two key words in the winger’s progress: maturity and patience. The issue of the personal trainer, the effort he puts in off the field… When I came in, they saw him as a troubled kid who needed to be educated, but what happened to him is also normal,” says Clouston, before adding another key point in the big moment his former partner: confidence.

“He is a player of those who are no longer there. Like Ronaldinho, Neymar… by magic. In such academic and tactical football, less and less creative players emerge. But Yeremay is a loose verse,” he adds.