Rarely before that, Segunda from Spain was so full of giants who split it down in the hope of promotion back to the Great. In fact, there are times when those present in your collision of your mid -table second division that will surpass in La Liga. Not in the last place that were held in Riazor, where an average of nearly 23,000 fans attend their competitions, despite three years in Segunda.
Even if sometimes the weight of a club with such ballast as Depor can sometimes make them less agile, more difficult to turn around, it pays to have an illustrious history. This is proven by the presence of Zakaria Eddahchouri in Galicia, who was born at the age of 24 eight days before his Dutch countryman Roy Makaay scored the second goal in a 2-0 victory over Espanyol on the Deportivo La Coruna day, hoisted their first La Liga title. A clean slate, who came under the stewardship of Noureddine Naybet, a hero for the land of the father of Eddahchouri, Morocco, and part of the reason he moved to a Coruna.
“For me and my family it was an easy decision, I love football so much. When I was young, I always watched the Spanish competition, and that was the moment when Depor played in the first division, so I knew the club. So when my agent came, it was an easy decision for me to say yes.”
“They are players who played a few years ago before my generation, but yes, my father, when Deportivo came, it was two players who called my father. Noureddine Naybet was Captain of Morocco in the good days. Roy Makaay played for Feyenoord, and I grew at about 20 km of Feyenoord, and the family was also in the two players, and the family, and the two playing and the family, and the two playing and the two players, and the two playing and the two players.”
Eddahchouri cost the Galician Giants € 300k from the Dutch Second Division side Telstar, so that she was left as a top scorer with 17 goals in 23 games. After the starveteran Lucas Perez has lost, who had just as well given Eddahouri de Lowdown on his way to PSV Eindhoven, who was going the other direction, Deportivo invested in a goal scorer and eventually hopes to return to where they were when Eddahori became known.
Perez was an institution in the region, the lost son who has returned three times and paid half a million euros from his own bag in his last fairy tale to get them back in professional football. Telstar, if you were wondering, on average just over 2500 fans every week. Eddahchouri, however, does not seem to be phased by what the mortals call pressure.
“I am a player who loves that, and the adventure. I train as I play, I love to dare when I play, I grew up playing on the street. It is not every day you get that pressure, so I try to enjoy it. I enjoy it. I enjoy it, it is a wonderful adventure, when you see the crowd and the stadium with their hearts and their passion. The piece where the most fear, he hardly registers. “You can call it busy, but in the end I wouldn't, that's what you want as a football player, and so I try to enjoy it to a full extent.”
However, that trust is present in all its answers, but is most common when drawing a comparison between yourself and someone you may know.
“If you ask me if I am worried about achieving some goals, I am not worried about that. You can compare it a bit with Benzema, I like to play well, I like to help the team in possession. He is not a player who is aimed at scoring goals. And I think you can compare it with him and my way of playing.”
It must be said, Eddahchouri says of course. There is no pretension, it does not sound like planned words of the aforementioned agent, it would be unfair to name the arrogance of a player who simply believes in his talents. And there are certainly worse players to base your game.
Depor is currently in 11th place in La Liga Hypermotion, nine points away from the golden sixth position and the promised land of the play-offs. If they would make a late run for promotion, something the club wants but does not want to demand the risk of Vertigo, it will probably hold a leading role for wing player Yeremay Hernandez. Coupled to a large number of rich clubs, most prominent Chelsea, it was inevitable that the Canary would come.
“If you play on the street, you can recognize in the first training session how good a player is, but also when it clicks. I think it is a very good match with Yeremay with my skills. He is a player who comes in and combines with others, I am a player who likes to combine and attacks, and he has the eye to play those balls in the back.”
“So in the first training session I saw that we have clicked very well, and it will be even better,” he says about Yeremay, who would undoubtedly also be useful in a five-a-side.
That seems to be the source of the trust of Eddahchouri, growing up with a ball at his feet. The 24-year-old explains that although Segunda is more physical than his Dutch equivalent, there are similarities in the teaching of football, in what you learn at academy level. From his perspective, football training without the hard concrete grounding is missing.
“If I look at the youth now, if I compare it to myself, I think playing on the street is the basis. If you see children playing on the Playstation, on the computer, it is not good for their development. For myself, I always played on the street with my brothers and my friends,” a place and a scene that is often romanticized. But for Eddahchouri it is fundamental before you think of something else.
“And that is the place where you develop your basic skills, and then over the years, when you enter the Academy, you can develop further. But you have to have that basis.”
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