Eliezer Mayenda. If you have followed the freshly promoted Soundland epic in the Premier League, you could not miss the phenomenon. Because if the Blacks Cats are back among the elite of English football, the international Spanish hope has a lot to do with it. However, if this left -handed striker has always been a phenomenon of precocity, nothing predestined the native of Zaragoza, who arrived in France at the age of 9 and spotted three years later by FC Sochaux while he was playing at CS Brétigny Foot; To explode in a few months in this way.
Mayenda, a few days before being 16 years old and 9 months old, had become the youngest Sochalian professional, ahead of Jérémy Ménez. Starting on the side of Sunderland at 18 after 15 Ligue 2 matches, the Spanish international U20 experienced a few months of adaptation to Sunderland and then during a loan in Scotland on the Hibernian side. More than playing time, the young Mayenda took experience and returned transformed last summer to the point of having become over the season one of the spearheads of the team from Régis Le Bris.
Eliezer Mayenda, announced sensation of the Premier League…
More in percussion than in the organization, Mayenda turned into a defender dynamiter throughout the season. Very good in progressive races and in -depth calls, the old Sochalien also shone in his ability to make ball differences in the foot in particular thanks to his dribbling and his dazzling accelerations. Its goal scored against Bristol City after a 70 -meter race, considered one of the most beautiful in the season, is the perfect example. A sign of His excellent season, Mayenda was called for the first time in his career with the Spanish team Espoirs (1 selection).
Brilliant throughout the regular season, especially in the second half of the season (10 goals and 5 assists in 37 matches), the n ° 12 of Sunderland highlighted during the accession dams by scoring against Coventry then against Sheffield in Wembley in the decisive match by scoring the goal of victory. Sunderland, who recovered the striking winger at FC Sochaux for a bite of bread is already rubbing his hands. Selected by Paco Gallardo for an internship in Spain U20 Preparatory for the U20 World Cup which will be disputed in Chile at the end of September, Eliezer Mayenda, which is today followed by the biggest European clubs and whose margin of progression is still immense, should quickly knock on the door of Roja if it continues its irresistible ascent …
