Frederick Magellan: The descent collector
Frederick Magellan is without a doubt on the list of worst signings of Real Madrid. And if that was not enough, He is possibly one of the most jinxed players in sports terms.. Played in 11 different teams, with discrete numbers and won four drops. In Spain he played for five teams but more surprising was that the first Spanish team was Real Madrid.
The surprising signing of Federico Magallanes for Real Madrid
We are therefore talking about one of the bizarre signings from Real Madrid from the end of the decade of the 90. A time, at the dawn of the century where we are now, where the white team signed a series of strange players who came to the Bernabéu team to practically not play. While many do not remember or have seen play Magallanes practically with the white shirt. He also went through Racing de Santander, Sevilla, Eibar and Mérida.
Frederick Magellan (Uruguay, 28 of August of 1976), He was a player from a team prior to Diego Forlán or Luis Suárez but who obviously did not reach a level similar to these.. Player of alleged technical quality and goalscoring ability, He debuted very young at Penarol, where he played a good level that allowed him to make the jump to Italy, specifically to Atalanta.
There he played two seasons, until his performance earned him so much to the surprise of everyone, le fichara Real Madrid in the summer of 1998. He arrived in June of that year and did not know anyone. The preseason and did little more with the white shirt, Well, it wasn't part of the coach's plans. Guus Hiddink. He was sent to Santander, There he played the entire second round with numbers that did not give him much credit and made the trip back to Madrid.
A journey of teams and relegations begins
They returned to give the Ombudsman for Uruguay, He improved slightly and returned to Racing de Santander where he began the book Magellan. That year he was relegated to second place with Racing and returned to Italy, He is hoping to lift his career back.
Enlisted in the Italian teams ; Venice and Torino, where it finished with respective descents, being present in three in a row. But surprisingly the stars should align in your favor and Sevilla was set at. Del Nido signed him to show his quality at Sevilla after the sale of Reyes to Arsenal. There Federico Magellan, and played five games in January 2005, he went to Eibar, with which dropped to second B, conquering another descent for his collection, the fourth of his career.
His career was already stagnant, when it started rolling around the world. He went to Dijon in the French Second Division and to Mérida in the Spanish Second B, where he didn't even finish the season and where he decided to hang up his boots.. His career in Spanish football cannot be said to have been the luckiest..