José María Relucio, ReluHe has lived long to be only 22 years old. Went through Real Madrid, Rayo and Atlético quarries, suffered a failed transfer to Inter Milan and finished in the Trival Valderas de Tercera. But his debut with Alcorcón changed everything. The Borussia Dortmund he had his eye on his subsidiary and there he has reunited with his friend Achraf…
-How was your arrival at Real Madrid?
-I was playing in Toledo and Madrid noticed me in a tournament in Illescas. They took me to Pre-Benjamin, I would be seven years old. I arrived in Valdebebas and I was until Alevín A. That year the club decided not to count on me. I was a forward and I was delayed to the midfielder, until that year my coach (Iñaki Beni) who sent me to the left side. I played without being my position and still went with the Madrid Under-12 team and was runner-up in Spain alongside Achraf, the Obama brothers … I never explained it to myself, but Madrid decided to rescind me. I was not expecting it and I was shocked. I had to find my life and I went to Rayo. Even so, my time in Madrid was very beautiful, I was also with Luca Zidane, Óscar Rodríguez …
-Almost from the Trival Valderas to Borussia …
-It was not easy. I came from playing in Atlético’s Junior Honor Division and even trained under Simeone. The thing is, he was going to sign for Inter Milan. But due to paper problems, I couldn’t play the Youth League and in the Spring they could only have three players my age, so the signing fell apart … Alavés signed me for two years but it was so late that all the chips were Complete and they had to give me, that’s why I ended up in the Trival. In three months I went from playing the final of the Copa del Rey Juvenil to training with Zaniolo in Milan … to finishing in La Canaleja de Alcorcón. It was very hard. I had to put myself in the hands of a sports psychologist.
“I went from almost signing for Inter to being in the Trival, in Third. It was very hard. I needed a sports psychologist …”
Relu, footballer for Borussia Dortmund.
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– and how it appears in the radar of a club of the dimensions of the Borussia?
-The Borussia scouts went to see Achraf a lot when he was in Madrid and on the way they saw more footballers. I share a representative with him and they showed them my profile. They came to see me and they liked me. When I debuted with Alcorcón in Segunda they decided.
-And in Germany your friend Achraf is waiting for you …
-More than friends, we are brothers. We have experienced many things together. In the end life has brought us to be very close again.