Alejandro Pozuelo
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 Alejandro Pozuelo (2013)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Alejandro Pozuelo Melero | |
| birthday | 20th September 1991 | |
| place of birth | Seville , Spain | |
| size | 172 cm | |
| position | Attacking midfield | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| -2010 | Betis Seville | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2010-2011 | Betis Seville B | 44 (16) |
| 2011-2013 | Betis Seville | 29 (3) |
| 2013-2014 | Swansea City | 22 (0) |
| 2014-2015 | Rayo Vallecano | 11 (0) |
| 2015-2019 | KRC Genk | 128 (20) |
| 2019– | Toronto FC | 36 (15) |
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1 Only league games are given. As of March 7, 2020 |
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Alejandro Pozuelo Melero (born September 20, 1991 in Seville ) is a Spanish football player . The attacking midfielder is under contract with Toronto FC .
Career
Pozuelo played in the youth teams of Real Betis and has been for the B-team of the club from the 2010/11 season in the third-tier Segunda División B used. He made his professional debut for the first team in October 2011 in the Primera División , in which he was used 18 times by the end of the season. For the 2013/14 season Pozuelo moved to Swansea City in the Premier League . With the club he reached the group stage of the Europa League over two qualifying rounds , in which he advanced with the team to the sixteenth finals. In the league he came primarily as a substitute and played 22 times in the season. After the end of the season Pozuelo moved to Rayo Vallecano , where he only made 13 competitive appearances within a year. He was then signed for the 2015/16 season by the Belgian first division club KRC Genk , where Pozuelo quickly became a regular. With Genk, they successfully qualified for the Europa League in the first year, in which the team failed in the quarter-finals at Celta Vigo . The Spaniard played with the club in the Europa League again in 2018/19 and was on the pitch in all eight of his team's games until he was eliminated in the round of 32 . In the Belgian league Pozuelo came to a total of 128 appearances with 20 goals. In March 2019, he moved to Toronto FC in Major League Soccer . In his first season he won the Eastern Conference with Toronto and lost the final of the championship against the Seattle Sounders 3-1. Then Pozuelo was included in the MLS All-Star Roster and the MLS Best XI of the 2019 season.
successes
Toronto FC
- Masters of the Eastern Conference: 2019
Personal awards
- Admission to the MLS All-Star Roster : 2019
- Inclusion in the MLS Best XI : 2019
Web links
- Alejandro Pozuelo in the database of weltfussball.de
- Alejandro Pozuelo in the database of transfermarkt.de
- Alejandro Pozuelo in the soccerway.com database
Individual evidence
- ^ Alejandro Pozuelo in the soccerway.com database, accessed April 10, 2020.
- ↑ 2019 MLS All-Star Game , mlssoccer.com, accessed April 10, 2020.
- ↑ 2019 MLS Best XI , mlssoccer.com, accessed on April 10, 2020 (English).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Pozuelo, Alejandro |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pozuelo Melero, Alejandro (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | spanish soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th September 1991 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seville , Spain |