The day Hugo Guillamón writes his memoirs, he will talk about José Bordalás. The Alicante has changed his position and also his life. From center to pivot; from a dispensable part to a reference to be renewed. Guillamón, a fixed center-back in the inferiors of Spain but without prominence and with doubts due to his physique to be in Valencia, has found his place for the elite with Bordalás and in seven pivot games, the club has won a renewal offer in the near future upwards in salary and clause.
Hugo Guillamón did not play anything with Marcelino, little with Celades (5 games) and a little more with Gracia (23 games). But it was not until Bordalás appeared in his life and his conversion into a pivot when the club realized that his contract ends in 2023.
Bordalás, who did not see him as a central defender, even if it was in that position that he became the international for Spain 815 in history of the National Team (in the ‘covid’ friendly against Lithuania), he proved him as a pivot during the preseason and there the youth squad player Ché has become strong.
Guillamón has been growing in that position. Everything is said began with the crooked foot, with an expulsion against Getafe at the minute of starting the League. But even so, a penalty match against Granada on the sidelines, Bordalás continued to trust him.
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In the other six games played, Guillamón has registered the following data: 23 recoveries, 62 duels won, 30 long passes and 89% success rate in passes. Guillamón, in the medullary line, compensates his physique with his quality with both legs and every game he plays, gain in tactical positioning and influence in team transitions.
There he has a mirror in which he looks at himself and wants to look at himself: Sergio Busquets, a footballer without the physique of other midfielders but with a tactical intelligence that makes him one of the world’s top players. This Sunday they will meet at the Camp Nou.
