Álvaro Vázquez

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Álvaro Vázquez
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Personnel
Surname Álvaro Vázquez García
birthday April 27, 1991
place of birth Badalona , Catalonia ,  Spain
size 182 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1996–? CF Trajana
CF dam
2005-2010 Espanyol Barcelona
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2009-2010 Espanyol Barcelona B. 18 0(8)
2010–2012 Espanyol Barcelona 60 (10)
2012-2016 Getafe CF. 85 (16)
2013-2014 →  Swansea City  (loan) 12 0(0)
2016-2019 Espanyol Barcelona 10 0(0)
2018 →  Gimnàstic de Tarragona  (loan) 18 0(6)
2018-2019 →  Real Saragossa  (loan) 19 0(7)
2019– Sporting Gijón
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2010-2011 Catalonia 3 0(0)
2012 Spain U-23 1 0(2)
1 Only league games are given.
As of February 16, 2019

Álvaro Vázquez García (mostly just Álvaro , more rarely Álvaro Vázquez ; born April 27, 1991 in Badalona , Catalonia ) is a Spanish football player in the position of a striker . He has been under contract with Sporting Gijón since 2019 .

Career

Career start at home

Álvaro Vázquez García, who was born in the industrial city of Badalona, part of the Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona, began his active career as a football player in the youth team of the local amateur club CF Trajana in nearby Sant Adrià de Besòs . After joining the club in 1996, he first trained as a soccer player in his hometown before moving to the training club CF Damm in Nou Barris , a district of Barcelona. After a few years in the youth team there, he made the leap to the youth department of Espanyol Barcelona in 2005 . There he was initially active with Cadete B , where he scored 35 goals in his first season. Only one season later he was successful at Cadete A with 34 goals before he made the leap into the club's B youth team for the following season, for which he finally contributed 23 goals in his first season. Furthermore, he came with the team that year at the U-17 Club World Cup in Toledo in second place; he himself was successful as a goal scorer four times. After being called up to the A-Juniors in the 2008/09 season, he missed most of the season due to an injury, but still managed to score seven league goals. In the 2009/10 season he was team-internal top scorer of the A-youth and the B-team of the club, to which he was called up before the start of the season.

Admission to the professional squad

After he reached 16th place in the final standings with the B team in Group 3 of the Segunda División B , the third highest football league in the country, the team just missed relegation and had to start the way to fourth division . Álvaro was used in 18 championship games in which he scored eight goals. For the current season 2010/11 he is still a striker in the B-team of the club. Even in the season preparing for the upcoming 2010/11 season took Mauricio Pochettino , in his head coach of Espanyol, the 19-year-olds in the senior squad. He made his team debut in the 4-0 win in the preparation game against the Spanish fourth division club FC Palamós , when he was on the field for an entire half of the game. Already in his second professional team assignment four days later, on July 28, 2010, Álvaro scored the goal that led to the 3-0 final score in the 78th minute of a 3-0 win over regional club CF Peralada ; previously he had come onto the pitch at half-time. On July 31, 2010, the team won the Trofeo Ciutat de Barcelona , where they defeated the Italian club Sampdoria Genoa on penalties; Álvaro was also in action in this encounter and was also successful as a penalty taker. Furthermore, the club's young forward talent was allowed to register as the winner of the Trofeo Ramón de Carranza , which was then won in August 2010.

After more pre-season games, Álvaro started with the B-team in the championship, but was already in the professional squad in the fourth round of the Primera División. There he finally made his professional debut in the 72nd minute for Sergio García in the 3-0 victory of Real Madrid , which was mainly characterized by the distribution of tickets by the Spanish referee Carlos Clos Gómez , on September 22, 2010 Lawn came. Already in his second league appearance on September 26, 2010 in a 1-0 home win over CA Osasuna , he scored the winning goal in the 24th minute after he was used from the start; in the 75th minute he was finally substituted. After further league appearances with the professional team, he caused a stir on October 27, 2010 when he scored both goals in the 2-0 victory over Real Valladolid in the first leg of the sixteenth-final of the 2010/11 Copa del Rey . Further league assignments for the professional team (mostly short assignments) followed in the further course of the season. He also made two appearances in December 2010 during the Copa Catalunya , which the team won for the 14th time in the club's history at the end of the competition.

In action for Catalonia

Due to his achievements, Álvaro found his way into the Catalan football team , coached by Johan Cruyff since 2009, in December 2010 , for which he finally made his debut on December 28, 2010 in a 4-0 win over Honduras . In the game he came on in the 73rd minute for his Espanyol team-mate Sergio García . In this encounter, in addition to Álvaro with Kiko Casilla , Marc Bartra , Alberto de la Bella , Andreu Fontàs , Víctor Ruiz Torre , Javi Márquez and Rafa Jordà , seven other players made their debut in the national team of Catalonia.

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Squad of the B team on the Espanyol Barcelona homepage (Spanish), accessed on January 3, 2010
  2. ↑ Palamós CF - Espanyol Barcelona (0: 4) (Spanish), accessed January 3, 2010
  3. ↑ CF Peralada - Espanyol Barcelona (0: 3) (Spanish), accessed January 3, 2010
  4. ↑ Real Madrid - Espanyol Barcelona (3-0) (Spanish), accessed on January 3, 2010
  5. ↑ Espanyol Barcelona - CA Osasuna (1-0) (Spanish), accessed January 3, 2010
  6. ↑ Real Valladolid - Espanyol Barcelona (0-2) (Spanish), accessed January 3, 2010
  7. ↑ a b Cataluña le pasó por encima a Honduras (Spanish), accessed on January 3, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Vázquez, Álvaro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vázquez García, Álvaro (full name); Álvaro (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spanish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Badalona , Spain