First division
“I don’t go down to Cieza much because in my town they are all compliments and flattery weakens,” confesses the Rayo player on the LA VERDAD podcast.
Isi Palazón (Cieza, 26 years old) enjoys the sweetest moment of his sports career. In his debut season in Primera, he is one of the stars of Rayo Vallecano, the revelation of the start of LaLiga. The newly promoted club from the south of Madrid has fascinated Spanish football for its results and, above all, its game. And the ciezano is fixed for Andoni Iraola, technician of the Vallecano team.
In full euphoria after defeating Barcelona last Wednesday and killing Ronald Koeman (1-0), the ciezano opens the second season of ‘A dos bands’, the LA TRUTH sports podcast. And he does not haggle any subject, from the current success to the bitter exit of Real Murcia four years ago. Isi reveals the keys that have made Rayo an effective and attractive team in which he admits that he feels very comfortable playing freely in three-quarters of the fields. Specifically, he tells how they are in close contact Iraola, a “sensational day-to-day” coach, and Radamel Falcao, who stands out for “his serenity and humility.” Also that he has the pleasure of enjoying this beautiful year in Vallecas with a good friend like Sergi Guardiola, with whom he coincided with the grana team. The forward, however, is not having as much prominence as him.
Isi also recalls his time at Ponferradina, where he achieved a promotion to Second in the two and a half years he was at the club, which he praises for his way of working. There he relaunched his career, largely thanks to coach Jon Pérez Bolo. The ciezano remembers that stage as one of the happiest of his life, which contrasts with his end at Real Murcia, the club from which he came.
His three years in Murcia
On the club grana clears, with the same intensity that hits the ball, any doubt that may exist about his departure. He details how his three seasons were in Nueva Condomina, as the current Enrique Roca stadium was called then. He talks about the pressure that existed to get the results and the off-sport earthquake that shook (and still shakes the club). He had to leave Real Murcia through the back door.
He does not hide the happiness he feels when he is living the best moment of his career. But be cautious. So much so that he admits “not lowering my people too much, Cieza, because flattery weakens and there are all compliments,” he admits. Isi Palazón does not set long-term goals but, like anyone else, he has his dreams. All of this can already be heard on ‘A dos bands’, the LA TRUTH sports podcast.
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