Julen Lobete is the fashionable man at Real Sociedad. Unexpectedly, everything has to be said. But the lezotarra hHe has finished knocking down the door of the first team with his goal in the 90th minute against Mallorca that gave the victory to the San Sebastian team after playing the entire second half with one less player due to the expulsion of Aihen Muñoz. You’ve earned all the praise you’re getting in your own right in the last hours and be the main focus of attention of the realistic environment, unseating established players such as Isak, Merino, Oyarzabal, Januzaj and Portu, among others. And his last two coaches at La Real bless him and compliment him, with qualifiers that go beyond football itself. Are Imanol Sheriff, his coach in the first squad; and Xabi Alonso, his coach at the subsidiary and with whom he has worked the most in the last three years of his fledgling football career.
“His goal is something important for all the coaches that Julen has had during all the years in Zubieta, and it supposes for the club and for the project, that we not only say it, because the facts are much more relevant than the words. And for Julen personally I was very happy, I was very excited and I was very happy, for the heart that Lobo has, for the passion and dedication he has in the field. And in Getafe he had it, and in Eibar he had it. And I said to him ‘Lobo, don’t worry, he’s going to arrive.’ so beautiful that he stayed, and that he took that reward, it brings me great joy and I feel very proud and happy for him, “he explains Xabi Alonso.
And add later Imanol Sheriff. “You see that Julen every time he appears, he has a chance. Once again he appeared again against Mallorca, but it is that he is appearing in all matches, and that is very important for a tip. And in this case he is also adapting very well to playing in the band, so in that sense Lobete is a kind of Portu for rival defenses. It annoys a lot, demands you and has the goal between eyebrows. I am very happy because he is a boy who has worked for him from lower categories, nobody has given him anything and if he is here it is on his own merits“.
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