The Villarreal goalkeeper saw how they unfurled a 10×15 meter canvas in the stands of the Nueva Cerámica
He also received a ceramic sculpture of bright yellow gloves.
Pepe the goalkeeper Queen was honored this Thursday by his club, Villarreal, with a 10×15 meter canvas in the Preference stands and the delivery of a ceramic sculpture of bright yellow gloves before the start of Villarreal-Cádiz for his 1,000 matches.
The Villarreal board and the goalkeeper’s family (his father, his wife and their five children) they gave him the sculpture titled ‘Mano a mano’ made by the provincial artist Ángel Igual to recognize his professional career.
Reina adds this Wednesday the thousand games in different categories and He currently accumulates 178 with Villarreal in two stages, the first from 2000 to 2005, with 147 games, and the second that started this season, in which he has already accumulated 31.
His most prolific stage was at Liverpool, where he played 2005 to 2013 and with whom he played 394 matcheswhile in Naples, also in two stages, he played 43 games in the 2013-2014 campaign and 139 from 2015 to 2018.
Between both seasons with the Neapolitan club, Reina played three games with Bayern Munich in 2014-2015, while in Milan he played 13 in the 2018-2019 campaign, 12 with Aston Villa in 2019-2020 and 54 in Lazio between 2020-2022.
In the early years of his career, Pepe Reina defended the goal of Barcelona’s first team 49 times from 2000 to 2002 and 41 times for his subsidiary from 1998 to 2000.
Together with the club matches, Villarreal remembers that Reina, who On August 31, he will be 41 years old, he has 74 international matches with the national team in his career, 36 of them with the absolute team.