Football Scouting: Illustrious forged in Tartiere

Are bad times for Real Oviedo. Since descend into Second Season 2000/2001, the group has been unable carbayón straighten a course that has led inevitably to destruction. Rapids sporting administrative defaults and, above all, a continuing mismanagement have caused the penultimate appeal to oviedismo to save a historic institution that refuses to die. The club needs about two million euros for not disappear through the platform and ' I am the Real Oviedo 'is making many fans in football become shareholders of a box that currently ranks fifth in Group I Second B. Four of those who have participated in the capital increase are players who took their first steps with the elastic of Oviedo, and today are references. Some grew up in the El Requexón and other tasted the sweetness, sometimes bitter, the Carlos Tartiere. It's Santi Cazorla, Juan Mata, Adrian Lopez and Michu.

Santi Cazorla (Arsenal)

Santi Cazorla played a game yesterday with Arsenal in the Champions League. It, along with Mata, who boasts an enviable track record, with two European Championships under his belt. The beginning, however, were not simple. Born in Oviedo, gave his first steps on the CD Covadonga before joining the youth ranks at Real Oviedo, where he remained for nine years with an assignment to the Football Club Astur included. In 2003 he signed for Villarreal and after assignment to an outstanding recreational, returned to Madrigal to become one of the stars of the tournament. Then came a move to Malaga , where he played one season in which the set malacitano reached fourth place last summer and went to the Premier League as one of the big signings of Arsenal. In July participated in a campus organized by the club, where he again left his vein latent carbayona: "It has been many years since I left the Real Oviedo and yes it is true that things have gone very well. I spent many years in this club and I owe a lot. "

Juan Mata (Chelsea)

Another illustrious from afar will not lose the eye to what happens in the Carlos Tartiere is Juan Mata. Unlike Cazorla and other players, not born in Asturias. He did it in Burgos, as his father played at that time in the box Castilian and indeed, much of his family is Oviedo. Anyway, their football only lasted three seasons Requexón. A Oviedo came after giving his first kick in the Fresneda, a football school, Youth and Sports. He came to play in the junior category, where he was two years of rigor, and the cadet. It embarrassment to score goals, something that was not lost on other big clubs. It was Real Madrid who took the upper hand and, from there, the story and knows everybody. Without first-team opportunities in white, after completing their training phase (which formed a devastating duo with Negredo), march to Valencia, where sports harvest his greatest successes. "I feel totally Asturian" he said in 2008. In the Chelsea team which won the Champions League , at least, wears blue.

Adrián López (Atlético)

Adrian's career since he promised, with youthful age, debuted in the first team at Real Oviedo, then in Segunda B. He was only 17 years old and already knew what the word responsibility. Then came his goals in the Carlos Tartiere, a greater role and, as often happens in such cases, their hasty goodbye. Born in Teverga, was forged in the lower oviedistas up to the first team. In 2006 he was transferred to Deportivo, where he began a short tour of disposals (Alavés, Málaga) to settle in the Galician. For two seasons playing at Atletico Madrid, where undisputed quality and asks where a place in the national team. It's about time you get a call from the woods, for the quality that holds the future of the Red. With a lot of football ahead, has scored amazing goals and has been key to the recent success mattress. Although now a great duo with Falcao, in the formed Tartiere with ... Michu , in the last carbayón go onstage.

Michael Cuesta, Michu (Swansea)

Born in Oviedo, his name began to hoard course covers the past, when it came in first with Rayo Vallecano. He did not need anything but their quality and chutzpah to mark 15 goals and become the idol of Vallecas . However, before making the leap played six seasons at Celta Vigo, who came to play in its subsidiary but which ended up being indispensable part of the first team. A Vigo came in 2007, when his home club, Real Oviedo, dropped to third. It was in this category that debuted three years earlier, at age 17. He lived a promotion to Segunda B and a descent into the catacombs of football. The anecdote that defines its oviedismo the Celtic footballer being lived. In the winter of 2010 he received a proposal from Sporting Gijon, then at first, which he refused. He said 'no' to play in the top flight for the sake of one color, blue, which gave its first kicking a ball. Today the modest triumphs in Swansea , Premier, which is one of the sensations of the championship.