Campaign, football with a top hat that went down to Second to reach the National Team

• Selection Luis Enrique calls Campaign for the first time and asks for prudence with Ansu Fati

«Nature has given him very good conditions, now he has to propose it.

Packed and focused, it is very valuable.

thus prodded an 18-year-old midfielder, a precocious star of the Sevilla quarry who had landed in the first team with

number 16

and had "lost himself".

AJ

(Seville, 1993) has had a hard time finding his place in football.

He has walked through

, the

,

and the

, but his brilliance has surfaced in Orriols, commanding the Levante midfield with elegance.

He is the magician of the top hat of

, the great jewel that keeps granota on the squad when nobody thought possible.

Not even

has been left out of the explosion at the age of 27 of that boy who was a fan of

.

To Campaña the ball gave everything in an accelerated way.

With a father who was Betis's right-back in lower categories and a civil servant mother, at the age of 16 he made the leap from cadet to Sevilla Atlético in Second B and, two years later, in the summer of 2011, Monchi made room for him in the

first team

.

By then he was already the captain of the Spanish under-19 team of

, European champion along with

,

or

in 2011 and 2012. His progression seemed to have no limits when it went wrong.

«At 18 years old and with a professional contract it is easy to get lost.

He has to decide if he wants to play for Sevilla », said Míchel, who took over after Marcelino's dismissal.

Campaña was blocked by a foot injury,

,

and

, the wayward Chilean who sponsored him on and off the field.

At the age of 20,

let him escape to London for two million euros.

The

offered him fulfill the "dream" of playing in the Premier League, which soon turned into a

nightmare.

He played only six games and, without knowing English, six months later, in the 2014 winter market, he was loaned out to

German

, where he had 591 minutes, and from there to Sampdoria, which acquired his rights for 1.2 million euros .

In just one year, he had played for teams in the four major European leagues and in none of them did he take hold.

Of course, his physique, without a single visible ink mark, began to transform and today allows him to be among the five players in the League who travel the most kilometers in matches.

Lopetegui, aware of his talent, wanted to rescue him from the ups and downs and took him on loan to his

, where he also had no space.

He gave him another six games and had to send him to the subsidiary.

That made me reconsider.

I could keep going around in teams and my career stagnated or take a step back, play in the Second Division and trust me again, feel like a footballer, "the Sevillian has always explained.

Resurrection in the Levant

The team where he began to achieve this was Alcorcón, with

on the bench.

"From him I learned a lot professionally and humanly," he admits.

"I have character in the field and he helped me channel it."

I was 23 then.

The most important decision was then to give up going back to Genoa to find a place and follow López Muñiz to Levante, who paid half a million for him and where he has become a key player.

With Paco López

, he has matured and has unleashed his talent to influence the game.

Heeling to the wings, from the inside position he has freedom of movement in three quarters of the field, millimeter the passes with the glove on his right.

With five assists he closed last season, the same as

or

, and also added two goals.

Jose Campaña, with the National Team shirt after being called up.LUD

The emergence of the player in the last two seasons has not gone unnoticed by Luis Enrique, who makes him the second player in the history of Levante to be able to wear the national jersey as granota.

,

admits the coach.

With a contract in force until 2023 and a

, the Covid crisis has prevented his departure from Levante.

Monchi's intentions to recover him disappeared with the arrival of Rakitic almost for free, and

de Bielsa did not listen to him when he offered 20 million.

His hat is worth more.

Levante expect better times while taking advantage of a little more of all their genius.

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