The Tejón family's house breathes football. For many years now. Ever since the three sons Hugo, Pau and Martín wanted to make football their passion. The youngest, Martín, is the one who is going the furthest.

He has just renewed his contract with Valencia CF after 13 years at the VCF Academy and after having spent the pre-season with the first team, with whom he will travel to Seville this Friday in the expedition that will face the opening fixture of LaLiga EA Sports.

"I'm very happy to renew my contract with the club I've been with for so many years and it's always a source of pride to play for this crest and this shirt," Martín told VCF Media, where he looks back on his career at the VCF Academy and his dream of making it to the first team. 

From prebenjamín

"I started at prebenjamín when I was 6 years old and I've gone through all the stages and I've had a lot of fun since I was little until now," he says, accompanied by some of the photographs he fondly keeps at home of his first matches, as captain, his first tournaments and his progression in the VCF Academy.  

Collector of honours at the VCF Academy

In those 13 years, Martín Tejón has been sharpening his attributes in midfield and collecting honours by winning the leagues in the different formative stages of 11-a-side football in which he has competed: Liga Autonómica Infantil, Liga Autonómica Cadete, Liga Nacional Juvenil (Group VIII) and División de Honor Juvenil (Group VII), which he remembers especially well.

"When you arrive as a child you don't imagine where you can get to, but I'm very proud to look back and think that the dream is much closer," says Martín, who has evolved over the years. "I have matured a lot both as a person and as a footballer and it is thanks to the club and my family".

With the first team

That growth has led him to do the preseason with the first team and to have made his debut at the Camp de Mestalla last Trofeu Taronja.  

"Having gone to Mestalla since I was a kid to cheer you on and now seeing you run out onto the pitch is an incredible feeling and even more so with all the people there", among them his family and friends who help him keep his feet on the ground.

Advice from Angulo and Baraja

On this path of growth, he has the help of two of Valencia's leading figures on the bench. "Both Angulo and Baraja help me and advise me, they tell me to be me, to show the football I have and to be calm".

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