Milan is about to own a versatile defender, even playing as a striker. It was Pervis Estupinan – a shining example of the extraordinary will and energy.
Milan did not miss even a moment to seek replacement by Hernandez – the left -back moved to Al Hilal a few days ago. According to the initial information, yesterday (July 22), the black and black striped shirt team agreed with Brighton on the transfer fee of Pervis Estupinan. The specific figure is 17 million euros, plus 2 million euros. The Ecuador player is present in Milan to wait for medical examination, before officially signing a 4 -year contract.
To be able to become a member of a great team like Milan, Pervis Estupinan had to go through an extraordinary journey. Few people know that the 27 -year -old was born and raised in a poor family. His father was a village teacher, while his mother was a meat -meat seller in the market. On a young age, Pervis Estupinan often plays football in the streets with children in the neighborhood, with bare feet, running on a rocky road full of gravel.
In order to have money to buy soccer shoes, Estupinan must take advantage of the time to sell cakes. Not only that, the boy also asked a foot to pick up the ball in a tennis court a few kilometers away from home. According to the recount of the player who is about to join Milan, it was those miserable days that made him more determined to become a football player. Estupinan tried to rise up, until LDU Quito received at the age of 13.
After 5 years of working with LDU Quito through many different levels, Pervis Estupinan started the journey to reach Europe with Watford Club in the summer of 2016. However, there is no road to roses for this left -back. He continued to wander the lake in the form of a loan contract with Spanish small teams such as Granada, Almeria, Mallorca, Osasuna, before being bought by Villarreal and quickly sold it to Brighton in the summer of 2022.
The days of being pushed back and forth through the teams have never made Estupinan discouraged. The more he was ignored by the coaches, the more he worked harder. In most of the home team training sessions, the Ecuador defender always arrived earliest and often the player left the latest. Even when he came home, he still spent time practicing the gym and reviewing football videos to learn from experience. The perseverance and persistence of Estupinan was once brought by former coach Roberto De Zerbi of Brighton to set an example in the training sessions.
In an interview when he was still leading Brighton, coach De Zerbi once asserted: “I have a strong belief that Pervis Estupinan will soon become one of the best left -backs in the world.” The reason for saying that because the Italian strategist highly appreciated Estupinan at a speed – the factor that made him nicknamed the “bullet”, the intelligence as well as the spirit of self -study. More surprisingly, Mr. De Zerbi also boldly stated that Estupinan could play well in the position of the striker backward.
Certainly the decision to join Milan will be a huge turning point in the life of Estupinan. Remember in the shirt of Villarrreal, the Ecuador player once honored to step on the glory to raise the Europa League trophy in 2020/21 season. Who knows, in the shirt of the red and black striped shirt, the 27 -year -old defender will continue to “make up” through noble titles, such as the Serie A championship or higher, the prestigious UEFA Champions League trophy.
Pervis Estupinan deserves great success, after a long journey to strive for extraordinary efforts.