“Pepelu and Almeida have a special ‘feeling'”

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With the arrival of pepelu to Valencia, Baraja will have in his hands two thirds of the midfield of the victory of Guimaraes 2020-21 since André Almeida too I was part of his team. That is not that it was a campaign of wine and roses for today’s Valencianists. Until five coaches they led that team in just nine months. But it was joao henriques who was longer in command of that team, six months, and especially who saw that those two beardless, Pepelu and Almeida, would go far in soccer.

it was today coach of a Champions team, the Olympia from Ljubljanawho trusted Pepelu (21 years old then) and Andre Almeida (20) to configure your trivote together with the already veteran and international Portuguese andre andre. “I really enjoyed working with both of them. They played with me almost everything despite being very young and they were very complementary”, he comments joao henriqueswho attends to AS from Slovenia.

Before Henriques, he led the team Tiagothe former Atlético player who has been linked in various occasions with the Valencia. Tiago yes trusted in pepelu but Almeida barely gave opportunities. With Henriques, and with Pepelu, he exploded. “Pepelu was already playing before I arrived. With André I had to speak when arrive. I was not satisfied because I played very little. I told him what he had to do to get better and in the end he had a great performance with me, scoring several goals and he went to the Portuguese under-20 team”, explains Henriques, who remembers the Denia footballer with great affection: “Pepelu really wanted to learn and show things to return to the Spanish league, to Levante” .