Satauto defender Eric Curbelo is a model of resilience since he stormed the skies of the Unión Deportiva Las Palmas chain of subsidiaries in January 2019, with Paco Herrera on the bench and the yellow first team wandering like a banshee in the Second Division after the previous sad decline.
Happens that Curbelo, tempted in his day by the lower categories of Real Madrid, always ended up scratching his minutes despite not being the main preference of Herrera or Mel, the two coaches he has had on the UD professional squad. The same thing it was as a center-back, his natural position, which as a right-back, was always present. In fact, last season he started 29 of the 36 games he played for a total of 2,759 minutes.
His future was complicated last summer until the last minute, because practically on the horn he ended up renewing his contract, just for one season. When you started working He also started as a third or fourth center-back, since Las Palmas had incorporated Raúl Navas, who has been in charge of cementing that fixed condition with which he arrived, and Erick Ferigra, Ecuadorian international who also endorses the great hopes placed on him. In addition, Álex Suárez, companion of many Curbelo battles in the yellow lower categories, also renewed in summer, in his case for two seasons, after come from a season in which he also played 36 games but with 3,190 minutes on the grass.
In this league tournament, Curbelo’s luck began to change definitively on that horrible afternoon the UD during the visit to Mirandés, 4-2, when at halftime he replaced Lemos, booked in the first half. Again as a right back, a new opportunity to claim a position that is not his. But that day Raúl Navas finished breaking, and then everything changed for the central Santa Brígida.
It happens that the Sevillian central forced to play in Miranda de Ebro, which finally resulted in a muscle injury that kept him out of combat for several weeks. And before that, nothing could stop Curbelo. Álex Suárez did not count for Mel, neither before nor now because for the moment it remains unpublished, and the 6 of Las Palmas was definitively made with a position in the axis of the rear. First with Ferigra and then with Navas himself, his titanic resistance resulted in 12 consecutive games and 11 starts at once. in the duels against Ibiza, Burgos, Ponferradina, Cartagena, Almería, Tenerife, Lugo, Alcorcón, Real Sociedad B, Fuenlabrada and Oviedo.
Your streak will be seen interrupted this Saturday against Zaragoza (Gran Canaria Stadium, 7:30 p.m.), then the yellow card he saw in the final minutes at the Tartiere means completing the first cycle of five and therefore see the game from the Tribune. For now, Curbelo has intervened in 14 of the 15 league games, and being a starter 12 times and accumulating 1,128 minutes of play. He has also scored a goal, against Alcorcón, and has a percentage of duels won of 64.91%. He knows how to guard his back so well that, despite his high-risk position, he barely committed 17 fouls.
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