Footballer Alex Vidal: biography, sporting achievements

Alex Vidal Parreu is a Spanish professional football player who plays for FC Barcelona. As a rule, the player acts on the right flank of midfield, but can also occupy the attacking position.

Alex Vidal is a footballer whose career is rather unusual and unpredictable. First, the player spent many years in various systems of youth clubs in Catalonia, including Barcelona. However, the first professional contract was signed by him with the principal rival of "Barcelona" - "Hispaniol". After his early career in the lower leagues and reserve teams, he began to regularly improve the game and achieved an increase to "Almeria". Changing a few more clubs, he was in the "Seville". With it, he won the Europa League and in 2015 moved to Barcelona.

early years

Alex Vidal was born on August 21, 1986 in the town of Wals (Tarragona, Catalonia) and grew up in the neighboring town of Puchpelat. Speaking for various youth clubs, Vidal in 2007 signed a contract with the "Espanyol", for the first team which did not play a single match. Although even for the "B" team, Alex Vidal played only 2 games. The first season at a serious adult level Vidal spent in rent in the Greek "Panthracikos", for which he played 8 matches. On August 31, 2009, he moved to the Gymnasium, which played in Segunda, but spent most of his time renting for the club Pobla de Mafumet, which was the farm club Gymnasium. Here, Alex began his career as an attacker.

Almeria

In mid-June 2011, after Alex Vidal played about 30 matches for the reserve club "Gymnastics" and scored 7 goals, the player moved to the reserve club of another Spanish team - "Almeria". He made his debut in the main lineup of the Andalusians on August 27, 2011 against the "Cordoba". Soon after that, he was promoted to the main team and took the 8th number after leaving Cruzat in English "Wigan Athletic".

In his second season Vidal scored 4 goals in 37 games: he played 30 matches, leaving in the starting lineup, about 2600 minutes in total for the season (more than any other field player), than assisted in the return of "Almeria" to La Liga after Year break. On August 6, 2013, he extended his contact with Almeria until 2017. On August 19, he held the first match in La Liga against Villarreal, which the team lost with a score 2: 3, and scored his first goal in about a month, in a game with Atletico Madrid, to which Almeria lost 2: 4.

Sevilla

June 16, 2014 Vidal moved to FC Sevilla and received his largest contract for 3 million euros, the agreement was designed for 4 years. Alex's debut took place on August 12 in the UEFA Super Cup in Cardiff, where he played 66 minutes. The match ended with a score of 0: 2. The first goal for the new club, he recorded himself in the asset in a week, scoring "Valencia". Together with Sevilla, Vidal won the UEFA Europa League and also got a ticket for the club to the UEFA Champions League.

Barcelona

June 7, 2015 Vidal signed a contract with FC Barcelona for 5 years. However, due to the ban on registering new players, Alex joined the new club on the field only on January 6, 2016, replacing Dani Alves in the Spanish Cup semi-final. The first match in La Liga Alex Vidal played against the "Granada". It is worth noting that many problems from the ban on the registration of new players was not only Alex Vidal. "Barcelona" could not make in the application and Arda Turan, who transferred from "Atletico".

International career

Vidal's first international debut took place for the Catalan national team on December 30, 2013, the Catalans played against the national team of Cape Verde. May 26, 2015, he and his fellow football club "Seville" - Sergio Rico, were summoned to the Spanish national team for the first time for a friendly match against Costa Rica and qualifying match against Euro-2016 Belarus. The debut of the football player took place in a match against Costa Rica, he then replaced Vitolo.