The Montenegrin youth national team player Marko Perović has played in four different club competitions since the beginning of this season - the 18-year-old from Podgorica completed his transfer to the Spanish Almeria after the 1st round of the Meridianbet 1st CFL in Jezera, where after playing in the B team, he made his debut for the first team in the 13th round of Segunda, and then he felt the magic and playing in the King's Cup.
Alemeria is a hit in one of the most difficult leagues, both because of the length of its duration and because of the quality of the teams, and out of 22 clubs, only two have direct promotion to La Liga. Almeria is now in exactly one of those two places, which is undefeated in 10 games in which it has won as many as nine.
And Perović contributed...
- Of course, I am proud that I got minutes in such a strong competition, I joined the first team and in it Abrines, a student of Real Madrid with a dozen appearances for the biggest club, and the other teammates mostly have experience playing in the strongest leagues. After my shot on my debut against Córdoba, Leo Baptistao, a Brazilian who also played in Atlético Madrid, put the ball in the goal from the goalkeeper. It was not easy to get the opportunity, especially since I did not understand the language at first, which is not the case now and it is incomparably easier for me. And here, nobody talks about goals, only about the next game. The league is more difficult because of more running and pressing than La Liga, which is dominated by tactics and only tactics. Well, after a 2:1 away win over Kultural Leonesi, we found ourselves in the 1/16 finals of the King's Cup and we will try to go as far as possible, because the club was immediately relegated in previous years - story for "Vijesti" the left wing of our youth team.
He appeared in Budućnost with several appearances in the championship season of the "blue and whites" (2022/23), and during the previous half-season he went to Jezero, from which he started his journey to the Iberian Peninsula.
- Everything is very different, even the B team of Almeria, the league they play in, is at an incomparably higher level than our strongest competition. However, at one point there was a lack of players for the training of the first team, after that coach Rubi had a conversation with me, he guided me and made it clear to me that I just need to work, be awake and focused at every moment and that he believes that I have the potential to be of use to them. I came to this wonderful Andalusian city at the end of August, and at the end of October I was definitely attached to the first team. It was physically and psychologically demanding, but I had the precious help of two teammates from Serbia, the experienced and hardened player Radovanović and the young striker who came from Partizan, Milovanović, so the adaptation was extremely easy for me. And all the other teammates accepted me brilliantly, they try to help me as much as possible. It's good that I passed the preparations in Jezera, played the first round, but the work here is incomparably more demanding, both physically and especially psychologically. You have to be focused in your work at all times - says Perović.
He signed a three-year contract with Almeria.
- I am personally satisfied, although the club told me that this paper is not an obstacle to improve my conditions if I play well. I think that the transfer made it possible for me to play in the national team, because at the tournament in Croatia I was the scorer in all three games, against the hosts, as well as Norway and Poland, and I also had two assists. There were quite a few agents and scouts. And so I am here, where it is really beautiful, the city is in two parts, one part faces the sea and is slightly bigger than Podgorica. And the conditions are good, the prices are only slightly higher than ours - concluded Marko Perović.
We have the generation to win the European Championship
Marko Perović missed the preliminary qualifying round for the European Championship, where the Montenegrin U19 national team, almost as usual since it was led by Goran Perišić, qualified for the elite round.
Perović did not miss the draw, and believes that his generation has a chance in the competition of the hosts Georgia, Slovakia and Poland.
- On paper, they won the easiest group, but only on paper. Now it is not easy to get anyone, you have to give your best, be complete, and we, as a small country, are certainly not favorites. It is true that we were close twice and that since independence we are perhaps the most talented generation, but we must give everything we have. We hope to succeed this time. Of course, when time permits, I follow our football, especially my Buducnost and Jezero, from a small town where I was really well received - said Perović.
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