Antonio Valencia, winger for the Gallos Blancos del Querétaro , acknowledged that he agreed to play in Mexican football to feel like a footballer again after pausing his career for five months .
“I was idle and wanted to train with players again , feel like a footballer again, so with Querétaro s and they did the quick steps , they started on a Monday and by Thursday I was on the plane ”, assured the Ecuadorian
Valencia, once the captain of Manchester United , left the Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito in his country in July and from that moment he was left without a team.
⏪ Valencia’s bombshell against Wolves 🇪🇨 # MUFC @ Anto_V 25 pic.twitter.com/UIMVztZkay
– Manchester United (@ManUtd_Es) December 29, 2020
El Querétaro , penultimate place in the Apertura classification 2020 , took advantage of Valencia’s free agency to convince him of the hand of his compatriot Jefferson Montero , who will also play the Clausura 2020 with Los Gallos.
The reference that Valencia had of the country’s football was Alex Aguinaga , an Ecuadorian player who triumphed in the decade of the 90 with Necaxa and that he was a star of the South American country’s national team.
Antonio Valencia mentioned that constant work was what took him to pass 14 years as a player in Spain and England: “What I have done during my career is t work hard, I don’t know any other formula for success. In Querétaro I will try to have good results s; I have found a humble team with whom I hope to do good things. ”
𝙲𝚊𝚗𝚜𝚊𝚍𝚘 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚘 𝚏𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚣, 𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚜 𝚊 𝙳𝚒𝚘𝚜 𝚞𝚗 𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚊́𝚜. pic.twitter.com/fPlGXYB75v
– Antonio Valencia (@anto_v 25) December 27, 2020