And he Cup match between Levante and Fuenlabrada will allow Morales to face his former team for the first time from which he left in 2011 for Valencia with the prospect of a better future and he was right, although the decision was quite risky then. At the meeting, everything is said, it will lack some mystique as it has to be played without an audience and in the of Las Roza s instead of in the Fernando Torre s of the Madrid city. Nor was it there but in the old stadium of La Aldehuela where Juan Luis Mora discovered Morales when, in reality, he was watching Madrid’s Third Party matches looking for a center-back for the Levante affiliate. He was surprised by the speed of the Madrid winger, whose category was too small.
The granola exporter, who had been in the technical secretariat for a short time, returned to Valencia with the idea of presenting his bet to the technical secretary, Manolo Salvado r. But before that, he convinced the team’s coach, Jose Gomez, arguing that he was a player who could be profited from. It was not an easy decision because Morales was 24 years old at the time.
The Levante, however, was fast. Because Morales was about to sign for Puerta Bonita -also in the Third Division- which offered him more money 1,200 euros a month and a project to go up to Second B. Within Madrid’s modest football it was a very solid project. But Morales was seduced by the idea of a change of scene and had a hunch that he could attract attention to improve professionally. The story was remembered some time ago by Jesús Lucas, who was the sports director of Puerta Bonita who met with Morales to convey the offer.
In the 2011-12 season, at the age of 24, Morales made his debut in the Granota affiliate where he played two seasons. One, in Third and the next, in Second B, after the promotion. After playing 38 games and scoring 8 goals in his first campaign in the bronze category, he went on loan to Eibar, with which he was promoted to First. And he has already returned to stay in the Levante first team in 2014, where he has become a differential player inside and outside the dressing room. Now, at 33, he is playing another key game in his career: that of a renewal that seems more entrenched than ever, when his contract ends on June 30.
