Enner Valencia emerged as the hero of the premiere of the World Cup in Qatar in which Ecuador beat the host country 0-2. The Fenerbahçe striker was the star of the opening game by scoring both goals of the match: the first from a penalty and the second after a solemn header that left the Qataris on the canvas. It could have been 3, but the VAR annulled his first goal in the early stages because he was out of juice.
An old viral acquaintance. The name of this 33-year-old striker may not be well known to many, but some fans realized that Enner Valencia had already been very popular a few years ago, but not precisely because of his goals.
Escape in the middle of the game. It all happened in 2016 at the Atahualpa stadium in Quito, where Ecuador played a qualifying match for the 2018 World Cup in Russia against Chile. Everything was going smoothly for the tricolor team, which was winning by a resounding 3-0, when Valencia suddenly dropped onto the pitch.
feigned injury. At that time, the footballer played in England and knew that his return to Ecuador could bring him problems. The reason? An arrest warrant for not passing his daughter's support to his ex-wife. The authorities were present at the stadium waiting for the end of the game to carry out the action when this suddenly happened. Pay attention to the commentators of the match.
With oxygen and crazy. Valencia faked a serious injury to cause the ambulance to show up and thus flee from the police in the middle of the game. The sequence of the agents running behind the sanitary stretcher, where the player assisted with oxygen was, went around the world and made the case very popular on social networks.
"The judge of the Northern Judicial Unit for Children and Adolescents, Martha Guerrero, revoked the pressure that weighed on Enner Valencia, based on the brief presented by her lawyer Juan Carlos Carmigniani, rendering the arrest warrant against her ineffective." , explained the footballer's representative later.
In numbers. This story has been rescued by countless Twitter accounts, but one of the publications that has caused the most stir has been that of the user @mbafraudee, which has accumulated 5 million views, more than 20,000 "likes" and more than 3,000 retweets on the Twitter account. time of writing these lines.
