Last update 21 August, 2022 by Alberto Llopis
Do you know the Venezuelan footballers playing in Spain? Venezuela goes through the worst political period, social and economic in its history. This makes many people have to flee the country to make a living and the case of the players is no different. We can find from the elite to the grassroots.
For years we have been seeing Venezuelan Spanish football players, not in vain, a few seasons ago we could see League players like Salomon Rondon, Arango, Miku, In love, Adaberto Peñaranda Tuñez the among others. But the Venezuelan League Legion has continued to grow. These are the Venezuelan players playing in Spain in 2018-19.
Venezuelan players in the league Santander
A few years ago it was more the presence of Venezuelan players in the top flight of Spanish football. However in the season 2018-19 vinotintos found only three players in the league Santander, the Spanish First Division.
Two of them are found in the SD Huesca where they arrived in the winter market. Oscenses by cold lands are talented John in the Year already he jumped to the elite few years ago, loan from Malaga and Yangel Herrera who also arrived in the winter market 2019 on loan from Pep Guardiola's City.
Espanyol is the side Roberto Rosales who already has a good track record in Spanish football, before the shirt of Málaga and now with the team parakeet Barcelona. The right side came to Malaga 2014 and in summer 2018 was loaned to the Catalan team.
Venezuelans playing in the League 1,2,3
In the second category we find many more football players than in the first vinotintos, specifically until 6 footballers born in Venezuela. Alexander Gonzalez in Elche, Aristotle Romero plays for Rayo Majadahonda, Christian Santos Deportivo La Coruna, Dani Hernández in the C.D. Tenerife, Darwin Machís in Cadiz and Mikel Villanueva in the Gimnastic de Tarragona.
Almost all of them already have a track record of several years in Spanish football. Gonzalez played in SD Huesca, the goalkeeper Dani Hernández was in the Real Valladolid before heading to Tenerife, Machis had a time in Granada before moving on loan to Cádiz, Santos arrived in Alaves 2016 Villanueva belongs to Malaga and more Venezuela.
Venezuelans in Segunda B and Tercera
The plight of Venezuela, It has caused many players whose level is perhaps not elite, They have found in football the way out to a better life. For this reason, you can find many players Venezuelans who play in Spain in the third and fourth category of Spanish football. Until 18 Venezuelan soccer players we find distributed between the groups of Second B and Third.