Rabat, 11 Feb. “If you don’t score 10 goals this season, I will tear up my coaching card,” said Carlo Ancelotti on September 14, referring to what he asked of a Fede Valverde who started the season easily seeing the goal , got stuck. after the World Cup in Qatar 2022, but the Club World Cup arrived and, with two goals, he rose to the challenge of his coach.
The Uruguayan admitted that the elimination in the group stage of the World Cup with his team affected him emotionally and it was one of the reasons why his performance drop occurred, but not the only one. .
The other was personal, and was revealed by his partner, Mina Bonino, on social media during the match where Valverde put his thumb in his mouth in his goals, simulating a pacifier, to dedicate them to the one who, after weeks of uncertainty, this will be her second child.
“Recently it was learned that I had lost a pregnancy. I couldn’t deny it, because that was what we thought would happen. It was incompatible with life. We prepared for a months at worst. As the pregnancy was very advanced, we had to confirm it with the test”, began the text of Mina Bonino.
“And after a whole month of crying, mourning, with my second child in my womb, yesterday the least expected news came to us: The baby is fine. Everything is normal. We don’t We still haven’t treated, it’s been a very difficult month and it’s starting again. THANK YOU”, he completed to communicate the good news.
Some personal problems revealed, without clarification until this Saturday, after Real Madrid’s defeat in the Spanish Super Cup against Barcelona and which was accompanied by a sporting slump.
Three months, World Cup in between, stuck at eight goals. But Ancelotti maintained his confidence and repeated starts until he regained the form with which ‘the little bird’ became ‘the hawk’, as the midfielder is now nicknamed.
He did so at the Club World Cup in Morocco where he scored in the semi-final against local Al Ahly and in the final against Saudi Al Hilal.
After his first goal in the final, he took the opportunity to hug Ancelotti, in a gesture with which they sealed the challenge of the coach, who will maintain his license as such, even with three months of the season to go. come.
The time Valverde faces with already 11 goals to his name, having also netted his team’s fourth goal (5-3), and a revitalized return to Madrid after their Club World Cup in Morocco. EFE
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