Sharjah (Union)
The Sharjah Football Company announced the signing of Spanish international striker Paco Alcacer, coming from Villarreal, in the first “king” deal in terms of foreigners, in preparation for the next season. The company’s members, Waheed Arafat, CEO of the company, Ibrahim bin Ghafan, director of professionalism, and the player’s agents, and Alcacer “28 years” played for a number of clubs in Spain and Germany, before Sharjah decided his move, and joined the “King’s Castle” in a deal that became the talk of social networking sites. in the Emirates and Spain.
Alcacer expressed his happiness to join Sharjah and said: This is a new challenge for me, and I feel happy and excited, to be here, and I have previously played for a number of clubs in my country, Spain and Germany, and had great experiences, and I think that my presence in Sharjah is a different challenge for me in a different atmosphere.
Alcacer hoped that the harmony with the players and the technical staff would be quick, to serve the team during the upcoming benefits, stressing that football is a team game that everyone succeeds together, and that individual victories do not mean much.
Born in Torrent within the Valencia community, bearing the family name Alcacer, which is derived from Arab origins, which originally means “the short”, Paco began his football career in Valencia, where he played for the club’s junior teams until he reached the first team, before being loaned to Getafe in the 2012-2012 season. 2013, and then return to Valencia until the 2016 season, which witnessed a great brilliance for the player, to draw the attention of Barcelona, and join the Catalan club, for 30 million euros, where he played alongside the trio Messi, Neymar and Suarez, and spent with the team two seasons in which he won the Spanish League and the King’s Cup twice, before To be loaned to Dortmund in 2018, to win the German Super Cup.
Alcacer continued his journey of great brilliance in the “Bundesliga”, and was close to getting the league’s top scorer in the 2018-2019 season, to be in second place behind Bayern Munich’s top scorer, Polish Lewandski with 18 goals, after Dortmund paid 23 million euros to contract him permanently in general. 2019.
The player returned to the Spanish league with Villarreal in 2020, and Alcacer became the most expensive deal in the history of Villarreal, when he signed him for 20 million euros, and he was one of the players who led the “Yellow Submarine” to winning the “European League” by scoring in the penalty shootout against Manchester United in the final in 2021, to be the last championships at the level of European clubs.
Alcacer has an honorable record in representing the Spanish teams at various stages, as he started playing gradually from the 16-year-old team, until he reached the first team, with whom he played 19 matches, scoring 12 goals, and also won the European Under-19 Championship title with the Spanish national team.
During his career in the “La Liga”, the Spanish top scorer scored 45 goals and assisted 31 goals in a total of 208 matches in which he participated, while he scored 14 goals and assisted 4 in 26 matches of the King’s Cup, and during his career in the “Bundesliga”, he scored 23 goals and assisted one goal in 37 matches. At the European level, he played 20 matches in the Champions League, scoring 3 goals and making the same, while he participated in 23 matches in the European League, scoring 13 goals and making two goals.
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