Alex Vidal Parreu is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for FC Barcelona. As a rule, the player acts on the right flank of the midfield, but can also take an attacking position.
Alex Vidal - a football player whose careerquite 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 Barcelona’s principal rival - Espanyol. Having spent his early career in the lower leagues and reserve teams, he began to regularly improve the game and achieved a promotion to Almeria. Having changed a few clubs, I ended up in Sevilla. With it, he won the Europa League and in 2015 moved to Barcelona.
early years
Alex Vidal was born on August 21, 1986 inThe town of Valls (Tarragona, Catalonia) and grew up in the nearby town of Puigpelat. Speaking for various youth clubs, Vidal signed a contract with Espanyol in 2007, for the first team of which he did not play a single match. Although even for the team “B” Alex Vidal played only 2 matches. The first season at a serious adult level Vidal spent on loan at the Greek “Pantrakikos”, for which he played 8 matches. On August 31, 2009, he moved to Gymnastics, who played in Segunda, but spent most of the time on loan for the Pobla de Mafumet club, which was the Gymnastics club. Here Alex began his career as a striker.
"Almeria"
In mid-June 2011, after AlexVidal won 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 part of the Andalusians on August 27, 2011 against the "Cordoba". Shortly thereafter, he was promoted to the main team and took the 8th number after Kruzat left for English “Wigan Athletic”.
In his second season, Vidal scored 4 goals in 37games: 30 matches he spent, leaving in the starting lineup, about 2600 minutes in total for the season (more than any other field player), than he helped in the return of “Almeria” to La Liga after a two-year break. On August 6, 2013, he extended contact with Almeria until 2017. On August 19, he spent the first match in La Liga against Villarreal, to whom the team lost 2: 3, and scored his first goal in about a month, in a game with Atletico from Madrid, to which Almeria lost with a score of 2: four.
Seville
On June 16, 2014, Vidal moved to Sevilla FC andreceived its largest contract for 3 million euros, the agreement was calculated for 4 years. Alex debuted on August 12 in the UEFA Super Cup in Cardiff, where he played 66 minutes. The match ended with the score 0: 2. The first goal for the new club, he wrote himself into an asset a week later, scoring “Valencia”. Together with Sevilla, Vidal won the UEFA Europa League and also obtained a ticket for the club to the UEFA Champions League.
Barcelona
June 7, 2015 Vidal has signed a contract with FC"Barcelona" for 5 years. However, due to the ban on the registration of new players, Alex entered the new club on the field only on January 6, 2016, replacing Dani Alves in the Spanish Cup semifinal. The first match in La Liga, Alex Vidal played against Granada. It is worth noting that not only Alex Vidal received a lot of problems from the ban on registering new players. “Barcelona” was not able to make in the application and Ardu Turan, who passed from “Atletico”.
International career
Vidal’s first international debut took place inthe national team of Catalonia December 30, 2013, the Catalans played against the national team of Cape Verde. On May 26, 2015, he and his friend in the Sevilla football club, Sergio Rico, were called to Spain for the first time for a friendly match against Costa Rica and a qualifying match for Euro 2016 against Belarus. The debut of the football player took place in a match against Costa Rica, he then replaced Vitolo.
