The former Bilbao Athletic and Portu center-back, with the winger of Cultural and Gernika, who is uncovering with goals this preseason, face their first experience away from Euskadi. “Going abroad is positive for your career”, they agree
Javier Murua and Iban Ribeiro will wear numbers 5 and 16 under the command of Antonio Calderón. One will try to avoid the goals against Salamanca UDS, the other, Iban Ribeiro, to score them in favor. Against the Charro subsidiary he signed two goals this Saturday in a friendly that obeyed the third preparation friendly on the slopes (4-0), with another two goals from Kristian and Ibra, from the new destiny of both Biscayan footballers. During the week, Armando’s youngest son, Alain has signed for Tudelano from Barakaldo, also undertaking his first adventure away from Sopelana, he had scored 6 goals in training, arousing admiration among his teammates. Before, the two had already played against Badajoz and Santa Marta to prepare for the Second RFEF and return to the place that corresponds to the heir to the historic UDS
At 24 years old and 1.84 tall, Murua arrives from Portugalete with a background of 50 matches in Second B. «I’ve been wanting to leave home for a long time, since I left Lezama I planned to go abroad, but because of the issue of the pandemic has been delayed to this year. I’m very happy, the truth is, everyone has advised me to go abroad and that is very positive. It cost me less than what I expected », confesses the central to El Correo. He does not stop receiving messages on his mobile: «I have received many motivators since I joined Salamanca. The city is very beautiful, you live very well, quiet, you breathe a lot of football in the streets with the fans, they live it, “he says and concludes that” adapting has been very easy. He does not shy away from his priority objectives: «Give my best, contribute everything the coach asks of me, the team’s atmosphere is very good, there is a great hunger to work; The idea is to compete every game and that’s how the results will come. We have a very good squad, very good players, with the attitude to make a good group. Everyone trains hard, contributing and helping. Hopefully it will be a good year, “he stresses. Murua wishes “to follow the line that I have been having with minutes.”
Iban Ribeiro, for his part, agrees in his observations with his new colleague: «My arrival at Salamanca was spectacular. I found a group that welcomed me with open arms, which made it possible for me to integrate in a simpler way, “he says and does not hide a maxim:” My goals for this season are to gain experience, learn from my teammates and from the coach ”and assures that he will export his“ maximum performance to take advantage of every minute the best of me ”. He has quickly acclimatized to Salamanca: «Going out was not easy because separating myself from my surroundings is a very big change. Despite this, I feel that every footballer to have a journey and gain the maximum learning has to leave home, “he acknowledges. Ribeiro thanks his coach, Antonio Calderón, for recruiting him for this very attractive mission. “Thanks to the reports he had about me, he was able to give me this incredible opportunity,” he added.
Murua only played six games, four of them as a starter, with 325 minutes in his last year at Bilbao Athletic. Etxebe opted for the other center-backs of the squad, mainly Sillero, Luengo and Vivian, when his back allowed it, plus the promotion of Paredes. He extended his contract until the end of the express playoff, cut off by CD Badajoz, although he did not play any minute at the Nuevo Mirador de Algeciras. A Murua (Bilbao, 04-23-1997) that did not finish convincing Etxebe as he did under Aritz Solabarrieta three seasons ago, with 24 games in his legs and a defender with a starting tag. Murua, who was already a regular behind La Florida with Portugalete last season, is a center-back with size and clean passing game. As a youth, he made his debut for Arenas in the Third Division, with a goal, which catapulted him to the Lezama quarry in January 2016. He was called up on several occasions with the lower ranks of the Euskadi team.
Iban Ribeiro (Sopelana, 2-15-2000), after leaving the map in Mallona in Juveniles, scored two campaigns ago in the Cultural de Durango, until his paralysis due to the pandemic, 7 goals, with 27 games played, 19 of them from starter, in his hopeful debut in the Third Division. A vertical boy, with speed, self-confidence, last pass and technical quality. At 21 years old, at Gernika he has achieved promotion to the 2 RFEF with Óscar Vales as coach after completing 19 games, with two goals. In Third he totaled 46 games, 25 as a starter, with 9 goals. The competition above will be real in El Helmántico, with Fran Santos, signed from CD Badajoz, Kristian Álvarez, Jairo and Ibra. The challenge is launched.
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