Alex Vidal Parreu is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for FC Barcelona. As a rule, a player acts on the right flank of midfield, however, he can also take an attacking position.
Alex Vidal is a football player 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 - 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. Changing a few more clubs, he ended up in Seville. With her, 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 Vals (Tarragona, Catalonia) and grew up in the neighboring town of Puigpelat. Speaking for various youth clubs, Vidal in 2007 signed a contract with Espanyol, for the first team of which he did not play a single match. Although even for team “B” Alex Vidal played only 2 matches. Vidal spent the first season at a serious adult level on loan at the Greek Pantrakikos, for which he played 8 matches. On August 31, 2009, he moved to Gimnastik, which played in Segund, but spent most of the time on loan for the Pobla de Mafoumet club, which was the Gimnastika farm club. Here Alex began his career as a striker.
Almeria
In mid-June 2011, after Alex Vidal played about 30 matches for the Khimnastika reserve club and scored 7 goals, the player moved to the reserve club of another Spanish team - Almeria. He made his debut with the Andalusians on August 27, 2011 against Cordoba. Soon after, he was promoted to the main team and took the 8th number after Cruzat left for the English Wigan Athletic.
In his second season, Vidal scored 4 goals in 37 games: he spent 30 matches leaving the starting lineup, about 2600 minutes in total for the season (more than any other field player), than helped to return Almeria to La Liga after a two-year break. On August 6, 2013, he extended contact with Almeria until 2017. On August 19, he held the first match in La Liga against Villarreal, to which the team lost 2–3, and scored his first goal about a month later, in a game with Atlético from Madrid, to which Almeria lost 2: 4.
Sevilla
On June 16, 2014, Vidal transferred 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 at the UEFA Super Cup in Cardiff, where he played 66 minutes. The match ended with the score 0: 2. He recorded the first goal for the new club in 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
On June 7, 2015, Vidal signed a contract with FC Barcelona for 5 years. However, due to the ban on registering new players, Alex entered the new club on the field only on January 6, 2016, replacing Dani Alves in the semifinal of the Spanish Cup. Alex Vidal played his first La Liga match against Granada. It is worth noting that not only Alex Vidal got a lot of problems from the ban on registering new players. “Barcelona” could not include in the application and Ardu Turan, who moved from “Atletico”.
International career
Vidal's first international debut was for the Catalan national team on December 30, 2013, the Catalans played against the national team of Cape Verde. On May 26, 2015, he and his Sevilla football club friend Sergio Rico were called up to the Spanish national team for the first time in a friendly match against Costa Rica and the Euro 2016 qualifying match against Belarus. The debut of the football player took place in a match against Costa Rica, he then replaced Vitolo.