Albelda, a meritorious player who has played for Valencia for 13 years, announced that he will hang up his boots and retire at the end of this season, and many Valencia fans have expressed their reluctance, because many fans have witnessed Albelda's growth, and many young fans have even grown up watching Albelda play......

But professional football is ashamed, survival of the fittest is a natural law, and no one can break it, even Albelda, who has been a full-time player for two seasons.

Valencia FC has set the date of Albelda's farewell ceremony, the club staff has begun to set up in full swing, and the fans who love Albelda are also silently preparing to show it in the penultimate round of the season at home to Levante.

Ahead of the penultimate round of the league, Valencia will take on Espanyol away.

However, Valencia have already won the league title three rounds ahead of schedule, and in preparation for the Champions League final against Barcelona at the new Wembley Stadium at the end of the month, this game did not have much of a main force, and was dominated by substitutes and young players.

It is worth mentioning that two 18-year-olds were given the chance to start, namely left-back Bernat and striker Paco.

Elo, David Silva and Cazorla did not even travel to Barcelona with the team, instead staying in Valencia to prepare for the Champions League final.

Before the match, it was customary for Espanyol to welcome the champions, Valencia, into the tournament.

Interestingly, in the 2005-2006 season, when Valencia won the league title in the previous round of the national derby against Barcelona, rivals Barcelona had to stand in two rows to welcome the champions.

It's amazing that the team that welcomes the championship is still Catalonia.

While Valencia's staples didn't make it to Barcelona, there was a stark difference in quality between them, with 18-year-old Paco showing amazing talent as Valencia beat Espanyol 1-0 away with his first-half goal.

At the same time as the victory, Valencia set a record league points, entering triple figures, the so-called breaking 100 points - 102 points!

Of course, there is another record that cannot be overlooked - the longest unbeaten streak in Spain's top flight.

Thirty-nine consecutive rounds unbeaten across the season.

However, many media outlets believe that Valencia are not only unbeaten across seasons, but also that it is entirely possible to create an entire season unbeaten with only two league games remaining, as Chelsea did in 2007/2008.

With the end of the 36th round of the 2010-2011 season for Valencia, all Valencia fans began to hesitate as they announced their retirement at the end of the season after a farewell ceremony at the Mestalla Stadium.

Prior to this, Valencia FC had extended an olive branch to Albelda, inviting him to become the middle and senior leader of the team after retiring.

Unfortunately, Albelda vaguely refused, because he had already planned to spend the next two years with his family before obtaining a FIFA coaching certificate......

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Before the 37th round of the 2010-2011 season, the official website of the Spanish Football Federation, the official website of UEFA and the official website of FIFA announced Albelda's imminent retirement and praised Albelda's contribution to Valencia.

In fact, a player like Albelda is very easy to attract fans, except for two seasons of his career when he spent two seasons on loan at Villarreal for training, and the rest of the time was dedicated to Valencia, whether it was a brilliant moment or an underestimated period, he was with Valencia.

In the era of Jin Yuan impact competitive football, there are really few loyal players like Albelda, Liverpool's Gerrard, Roma's Totti, Inter Milan's Zanetti, Barcelona's Puyol, AC Milan's retired Maldini......

On the penultimate day of the league game, half a day before the game, the outside of the Mestalla Stadium was already crowded, with almost every fan wearing the number 6 shirt and many scribbling the Arabic numeral '6' on their faces.

Banners, slogans and posters are endless.

If you are a music fan who doesn't know football, you even think that this stadium is going to be a concert by some music master......

In fact, this round of matches at the Mestalla Stadium is the equivalent of a concert, and there is only one protagonist, and that is David Albelda Alex.

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As Albelda warmed up with his teammates from the players' tunnel onto the pitch, the Mestalla Stadium erupted in loud cheers.

The whole stadium is white, and the white stands belong almost entirely to Albelda, who is the protagonist today.

Live DJ Mario Cork stirred up the emotions of the fans at the first time: "Let's chant David together-"

"- Albelda!!"

The 50,000 Valencia fans in the stadium chanted hoarsely.

The momentum was so loud that the reporters standing on the sidelines even felt a slight tremor under their feet.

Albelda's eyes moistened as he listened to the cheers from the crowd, and he could only raise his arms above his head and clap his hands to thank the fans in the stands on all sides.

Iroh quietly gave his shoulder, patted Albelda's arm and said, "You deserve it!" ”

Before the start of the official competition, Valencia FC gave Albelda a simple farewell ceremony, where the DJ read the script and the current general manager Carboni presented him with the Valencia Medal of Remembrance to express his outstanding contribution to the club.

Carlo Ancelotti made a tweaking to the starting line-up for this game, with Eiro, David Silva and Cazorla returning to the starting line-up, with Edinson Cavani at centre-forward and veteran captain Albelda at the back, although he was more active in this game and was not fixed in the midfield position.

The main line-up, led by Iro, soon opened the scoring with Iro, who scored with a sudden cold arrow from the wing.

His tally has thus taken to 58, equalling Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored twice in the previous round, and Lionel Messi, who scored a goal, and the three are joint top scorers.

With Elloh's goal, Valencia's goal account seemed to open up suddenly, and he then set up goals from Edinson Cavani and Cazorla.

It's a bit of a pity that the protagonist Albelda didn't score, which made the fans in the stands quite helpless.

However, they did not linger for long, and in the 35th minute of the game, Elo's breakthrough caused a foul by the Levante central defender, and the referee decisively awarded a penalty.