Hull City summer signing Oscar Zambrano growing into English life
The young midfielder has made six Championship appearances so far netting one goal and one assist
Oscar Zambrano believes he’s now settled into life at Hull City after making his move to England from Ecuador during the summer transfer window.
Regarded as one of the hottest properties in South America, the 20-year-old was snapped up by the Tigers who signed him on a season-long loan from LDU Quito, with the option of making it permanent next summer.
Zambrano, who is having English lessons to help him integrate into British life, has steadily grown into Tim Walter’s squad and says the Championship has taken some getting used to, not least the pace and intensity of English football’s highly-regarded second-tier.
“I am also very happy to have taken a very important leap for me,” the midfield star told a translated interview with ECDF during his international trip with Ecuador. “I think that it was time. I didn’t feel ready and prepared, and it was a challenge that I took on with all the excitement in the world because getting there wasn’t going to be easy.
“Everything is very different, obviously a new (style of) football, the people, the culture, but thank God I have tried to keep myself mentally strong because that is also something that sooner or later you will play, and I am very happy. I am really happy to belong to a club that is helping me as a person, as a player and that is very important for me now.
“I said in previous interviews that it has changed me a lot when it comes to being more intense without the ball because it is something that football asks you to do there, it forces you to do it, and it is something that I have assumed in a good way. I have worked because, as I tell you, how soccer goes, you see the passes faster, the intensity of the rivals in training, that is demanding of you a lot and something that I have improved a lot.
