Last update 17 julio, 2024 by Alberto Llopis
Morales and Iborra. Despite the circumstances in which the first heading to Villarreal in 2022, They are two of The best players in the history of Levante UD. On merit. And they are a granota history. And both, that add up to more than half a thousand matches as granotas and know what the captain's bracelet is to wear, They will return and coincide in the Levante UD 2024-25.
Morales and Iborra: Opposite roads that have ended crossing
For how it occurred, for times and for forms above all, The output of Jose Morales of the lift in the summer of 2022 It was very traumatic for the grainota fans. So much that there are many, Many who do not forgive the once idol and a Levantinist captain who left the team in second and missing his word. And it's not for less since ‘the commander’ He swore eternal love as soon as he descended and he left just a couple of weeks later heading to Villarreal.
Curiously, In that same summer of 2022, Vicente Iborra He made the opposite path to return to Levante, where he had raised and done as a footballer to try to return the Levante to First. Precisely from Villarreal. And is that until this summer, The roads of Morales and Iborra seemed totally crossed.
A IR by the way, who wanted to stay after not ascending to Alavés and it was the league that sent him to play Olympiakos where he was champion of the Conference League With the Greeks. His first words at the field were ‘is my dream, It is my illusion to return to the levante ’.
In 2013, Morales jumped from the subsidiary to the first team of Levante, Although it would end up on loan that year at Eibar. Just that summer, Iborra, He was transferred to Seville. In 2022, when they seemed that they could get together again, They ended up making opposite paths, as if it were a chromos change. Now, in 2024, His roads have finished coincided with Levante. Where both, separately, They have fought many battles. And now they want to fight one to return to the east to the now called EA Sports League.
More of 500 parties as granotas
And is that specifically, José Morales has played to date 311 matches as a Levantinist player. Marking 69 goals and giving 43 assists. To this we must add others 40 matches with the subsidiary of Levante and others 8 goals with team B. Not in vain, It is the second player so far with more games in the history of Levante, surpassed only by Felix Ettie.
In the case of Vicente Iborra that will play in its third stage as a granota, has disputed 231 matches with the first team and has marked 15 goals and given 3 assists. The one from Moncada, He arrived at the first granota team after going through different teams from the Levantinist quarry.
In total, Between the two add the whopping 542 matches with the Levante jacket before starting the season 2024-25. A season where both will finally coincide as granotas and that there is somewhat clouded by the situation of Morales and a hobby, We'll see if forgive him or at least soften hostilities to him. Either way, The Levante will have 2 Of the best soldiers in its history for a hard battle, very hard, In an increasingly competitive and beautiful category such as ‘Hypertensions Liga’.