The clash of this Sunday between Valencia and FC Barcelona will be special for several footballers, and one of them is Jordi Alba. The one of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat goes back to which went his house during several seasons, although unfortunately it does not expect a big recibimiento in Mestalla, but rather all the contrary. It carries long being considered an enemy more.
Of at all they served the three years that happened in the capital of the Turia, with three profitable campaigns (of the 2009-10 to the 2011-12) in which it did a name in the world-wide panorama. The Catalan abandoned the positions advanced and turned into the carrilero that is nowadays, after 110 parties like blanquinegro in which it participated in the domestic competitions but also in Champions and Glass of the UEFA.
The turn to the Camp Nou changed it everything, because it broke the good relation that existed with the fans valencianista. Pitidos, cries and insults have multiplied in the terracings when the left side has gone back to jump to the terrain of game, something that could repeat in a visit liguera in which all aims to go by the same course.
In his last meetings with the square 'che', Jordi Alba has arrived even to demand something more than calm, a speech that have pronounced some of the mates with which coincided in the changing room: "Only I ask respect. I gave it everything by Valencia and have to understand that I went me to my house, gives me pity that receive me like this".
Jordi Alba saved to the Barça in Mestalla
The last controversial episode lived the past course, when a goal of Alba saved a tie for the Barça in Mestalla. The Barcelona saw as it cancelled them an entirely legal goal, but afterwards marked Rodrigo and the duel complicated . In the 82 was the canterano the one who resolved the ballot, and his celebration went back to be the white of the ires of the followers.
"I arrived free and I left a lot money here. It gives me pity that receive me like this because I yes am very grateful to Valencia. I do not ask that they applaud me, only that have a bit but of respect", repeated the Catalan, that this weekend expects that there is something more than silence when it touch him take part along the 90 minutes. It will be necessary to see if possible.