Juan Valera Espín is a Spanish football player who plays for Getafe CF on a position of a right defender.
Playing for his native side Murcia he grew up as a decent footballer eventually signing a professional contract with the side and making his debut on December 7, 2003 in the Segunda when Murcia faced Villarreal.
Murcia managed to win promotion to the Primera at the end of the season 2003/04. The whole campaign was spent on the bench by the player who took the pitch only three times as a part of the main squad. The following season was of a significant progress. Nevertheless he played 10 matches with 5 as a starter and didn’t save Murcia from eventual relegation form the top flight demoting the club back to the Segunda.
The season 2005/06 Juan spent as a solid first team player and owing to an exquisite performance and decent physical and technical abilities Valera attracted the attention of a scouting team from Atlético Madrid. Already in 2005 the player signed for the ‘Colchoneros’.
The first season was successful enough for him to appear in 17 games and put two goals for the Madrid side on his account. The bad news came when he heavily injured his knee during the following campaign. That very trauma became a real disaster for the footballer as his missed out for a very long period losing a place in the starting eleven making only 16 starts for two seasons.
At the beginning Valera was loaned by Racing Santander, a club playing in a European tournament for the first time in their history. Regardless of the lack of experience in collaborations and links on the pitch Juan found his place there falling in with the squad greatly. By the season 2009/10 the player was fully fit to appear for Atlético applying his effort to the club’s Copa del Rey finals run and winning the Europa League as consequence.
Having gained the total 71 league appearances for Atlético Valera moved to Getafe. There he spent his first season (2011/12) with 20 league appearances and one goal.
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