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Ufarte to Atleti and Madrid looking for extreme

2022-05-09T05:22:46.146Z


The white club rejected him because, by training in Brazil, by law he was considered a foreigner Ancelotti's doubts on the right wing (Rodrygo, Asensio, Lucas Vázquez, Valverde...) evoke the 10 years that Madrid spent testing for that position while Ufarte triumphed at Atlético. On an imprecise date in 1963, a mechanic from Almería who had tried his luck in Pontevedra before emigrating to Brazil returned to Spain for the first time, for the wedding of his eldest daughter, who had stayed with


Ancelotti's doubts on the right wing (Rodrygo, Asensio, Lucas Vázquez, Valverde...) evoke the 10 years that Madrid spent testing for that position while Ufarte triumphed at Atlético.

On an imprecise date in 1963, a mechanic from Almería who had tried his luck in Pontevedra before emigrating to Brazil returned to Spain for the first time, for the wedding of his eldest daughter, who had stayed with her grandparents.

He took advantage of the trip to offer Madrid the signing of his son, who was successful in Brazil to the point that they wanted to nationalize him to succeed Garrincha in the

Verdeamarelha

.

He was received by Miguel Malbo, the man from the quarry.

He had some reference to the player, Ufarte, known there as

Espanhol

, and asked his father if he had ever had a record in Spain.

—No, he left there when he was 14 years old.

"We can't sign him.

If the first file has been in a foreign country, for soccer it is foreign.

The man felt insulted and bitter.

His son, foreigner!

But that was the letter of the ill-conceived norm with which the importation of foreigners had been prohibited after the failure of Spain in the World Cup in Chile 62.

Madrid had Amancio as a right winger, so he was not interested in presenting to the Federation the absurdity that a boy born in Pontevedra was considered a foreigner.

He couldn't ask for a favor there either, since he had withdrawn his representative from her precisely since the ban on signing foreigners.

And that the president, Benito Pico, had been vice president of the Bernabéu, but they broke up precisely because of the closing of borders.

In the summer of 1964,

Espanhol

played the Orange Trophy with Flamengo in Valencia, they made a ruckus and Atlético went for it.

The snag of being abroad was resolved with a certificate from the Petit Lérez de Pontevedra, a children's team with which he had played before leaving Spain, and he entered Atlético like hand in glove.

They even threw hats at him in the old Metropolitan.

Quick as the wind, with great dribbling, he became Atlético's great asset.

Against Madrid he threw the rest, he never forgave being rejected for calling him a foreigner.

His duels with Sanchís were legendary.

The same year that Ufarte arrived, Amancio moved to the inside point to make up for the decline of Puskas.

For the far right position, he began a parade of applicants that would last as long as the Pontevedra's career at Atlético.

Serene.

The first, pure ye-yé, made in the quarry and scorer of a historic goal against Partizán in the 1966 final. It was less, he began to fall into substitution and in 68 he went to Elche.

In five years he left 86 games and 15 goals.

Omen.

One of the seven Paraguayans who came to Spain after the 58 World Cup. Madrid signed him from Sevilla (already with dual nationality) for 65-66.

One year, nine games, two goals.

He went to Granada.

Veiled.

He arrived in the 65-66 from Depor, where he was an attacking partner with Amancio and was capped four times.

Center forward, he tried to adapt to the winger with discreet results.

Four seasons and Orense.

42 games and 19 goals.

Juanito.

Signed from Albacete, extreme or interior.

Two games in 66-67, between assignments to Valladolid, Rayo and Castellón.

From Diego.

Inside at the top signed from Oviedo in 67-68, also trying to adapt to the winger.

Three seasons, 12 games, five goals.

Miguel Perez.

Argentine, native, appeared in 67-68.

Extreme, he was going more when a knee injury stopped him.

Five years, 66 games, 13 goals.

Then, Zaragoza, Rayo and Castellón.

Jose Luis.

A youth player, he came to the team in 67-68, his natural position was Pirri, but he became a wild card.

He played as a winger, in the middle and sometimes as a right winger.

Four times international.

In 10 years he left 183 games and 16 goals in various positions.

Fleites.

Paraguayan.

He arrived at Malaga in 1968 as a false native, he went to Madrid for 70-71.

Another pointed interior to which he tried to adapt.

Lots of class and prone to getting fat.

Two years as a starter, 77 games, 26 goals.

He went to Nimes, from where he would return to Sevilla.

He married a daughter of Fernando Rey.

Ortuño.

Right winger, signed from Sabadell in 70-71.

Two seasons, eight games, two goals.

He went to Castellón.

Aguilar.

Arrived in the 71-72 along with Corral and Santillana, end of class and speed, but fearful.

He played eight seasons with 160 games and 50 goals.

He was tenth on the list.

And ten were the years that Ufarte remained as a starter at Atlético (later he went to Racing) while Madrid went crazy looking for a right winger.

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Source: elparis

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