Last update March 24, 2019 by Javier Argudo
It was the summer of 1993 when he came to the Valencia CF a player who should make a difference and become the star of the team: Pedja Mijatovic. Montenegrin joined Mestalla club payment of 300 million pesetas, an amount very important in those days, and his teammates welcomed him with open arms.
Hoy en día está muy de moda que los recién llegados “sufran” alguna novatada aunque esto no es nuevo ni mucho menos. At that moment one of the ringleaders of the team was Fernando Giner. The Valencia player had (and still) joker and fame as the player himself has in his book of anecdotes and expressed numerous times in interviews, one of them was about to cost you dearly.
JOKE A MIJATOVIC
The Valencia He was focused on the stage of pre-season Mijatovic was rooming with Quique Sanchez Flores. It was then that Giner he asked his partner to let him enter the room to hide in the closet with a monster mask. There was hidden for three quarters of an hour until finally arrived Pedja. Fue en ese momento cuando salió del armario “El Monstruo” con su careta dando berridos. So says the protagonist in an interview Provinces:
“Land di such fright backed, he hit the wall and fell to the ground, slowly slipping, like in the movies. He is turned pale, speechless! Outside were all comrades, even the doctor, he had to assist. We put him on the bed and reanimated. I scares because what I thought had cost: "OMG, to compensate the club I'll have to play for free all my life!
The story ended in a shock but fortunately no regrets something more serious. Mijatovic could develop their best football in Mestalla over three brilliant seasons which helped him to sign for Real Madrid, payment of his release clause 1.400 million approximately, provoking a real schism between the two clubs and especially in the Valencia fans who never forgave him.
