Paraguayan affiliation football actor

Almirón and the second or maternal family name is Rejala. In this spanish name, the first base or parental surname isand the second or parental family name is Miguel Ángel Almirón Rejala ( wear 10 February 1994 ) is a Paraguayan master football player who plays as an attacking midfielder for Premier League club Newcastle United and the Paraguay home team.

Almirón began his career at Cerro Porteño and transferred to Lanús in 2015. After winning the 2016 Argentine Primera División, he signed for Atlanta United for $ 8 million. He was named in the MLS Best xi for both of his seasons in Major League Soccer, ampere well as MLS Newcomer of the class for 2017. After helping Atlanta to the MLS Cup 2018 he signed for Newcastle for £21 million, a club record and the highest tip for an MLS player. Almirón made his international debut for Paraguay in 2015, and represented the state at the Copa América in 2016, 2019 and 2021 .

early on liveliness [edit ]

Almirón grew up in an destitute kin where his father worked 18-hour shifts as a security guard and his mother worked in a supermarket. The seven members of his family sleep in three bedrooms, and he had to plowshare a bed with his mother until he was 18. [ 2 ] [ 3 ]

Club career [edit ]

Cerro Porteño [edit ]

Rejected from Club Nacional for being excessively lightweight, Almirón moved to Cerro Porteño. His newly clubhouse still had reservations about his physique, and he did not play regularly until he was on their under-17 side. [ 3 ]

Lanús [edit ]

In August 2015, Almirón signed for Club Atlético Lanús in the Argentine Primera División. [ 4 ] Introduced slowly in his first season by Lanús coach Guillermo Barros Schelotto, Almirón came to the vanguard the future season in the shorten 2016 Argentine Primera División under Jorge Almirón. Playing as an advance central midfielder, Almirón was pivotal in Lanús ‘ 2016 Argentine Primera División championship succeed, scoring keystone goals against local rivals Banfield in the Clásico del Sur, [ 5 ] and belated in the final against San Lorenzo. [ 6 ] A few months by and by, in August 2016, Almirón set-up the entirely goal in Lanús ‘ Copa Bicentenario victory over Racing. [ 7 ]

Atlanta United [edit ]

On 5 December 2016, Almirón signed with the new Major League Soccer expansion team Atlanta United. [ 8 ] He joined as a “ Young Designated Player ” [ 9 ] and Atlanta paid a transfer tip of around $ 8 million to Lanús. [ 10 ] Almirón was an crucial trope in Atlanta United ‘s beginning season, described as the “ pulse ” of the team by veteran teammate Jeff Larentowicz. [ 11 ] On 12 March, Almirón scored his first goals for the club, notching a brace in the baseball club ‘s second plot, a 6–1 victory over colleague MLS newcomers Minnesota United. [ 12 ] He scored the second hat-trick in cabaret history on 20 May against the Houston Dynamo, and scored two goals a week by and by against New York City FC. [ 13 ] Almirón joined teammates Greg Garza and Michael Parkhurst in the MLS All-Star Game on 2 August, [ 14 ] and topped the league ‘s list of 24 players under the age of 24, released on 28 September. [ 15 ] During the regular season, Almirón was named to seven Teams of the Week by Major League Soccer, and was named Player of the Week doubly. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ] At the end of the season, he was named to the league ‘s Best XI [ 19 ] and was named Newcomer of the Year. [ 20 ] In April 2018, Almirón was named MLS Player of the Month for his five goals and two assists as Atlanta went unbeaten with three wins and a draw. [ 21 ] With 12 goals and 14 assists, he was again named in the MLS Best XI, aboard teammate Josef Martínez. [ 22 ] Atlanta won MLS Cup 2018 against the Portland Timbers in only their second season of being, and Almirón was named in the team of the 2018 MLS Cup Playoffs. [ 23 ]

newcastle United [edit ]

On 31 January 2019, Almirón joined Newcastle United for an undisclosed tip on a five-and-a-half class cope. [ 24 ] The transfer tip is believed to be around £21 million, at the time, a club record tip, [ 25 ] and a record for an MLS actor. He made his Premier League debut on 11 February in a 1–1 draw at Wolverhampton Wanderers, playing the concluding 18 minutes in target of christian Atsu. [ 26 ] Fans and media likened Almirón to Santiago Muñez, a fabricated Newcastle player from the film Goal! who besides originated from Latin America and moved to St James ‘ Park via the United States. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] [ 2 ] During a match against Southampton on 20 April, he was tackled by Oriol Romeu and suffered a hamstring wound that ruled him out for the rest of the season. [ 29 ] Almirón struggled to score in his first months with Newcastle, but helped his side to avoid relegation. [ 30 ] After registering a total of 40 shots with no goals, he scored his first base Premier League goal on 21 December 2019 in a 1–0 victory over Crystal Palace. [ 31 ] He finished the season with a club-best eight goals in all competitions. [ 32 ] On 6 February 2021, Almirón scored twice in a 3–2 home win over Southampton, a game in which he ran 11.29 kilometer, the most on his team. He subsequently had four goals in his survive 12 Premier League games, the same as he scored in the 55 before that. [ 33 ]

International career [edit ]

Almirón played for the Paraguay under-20 home team in the 2013 South american english Youth Football Championship in Argentina, and was highly involved as his team finished second to Colombia. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] Later that class, he was called up for the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Turkey, where Paraguay reached the last 16. [ 36 ] On 5 September 2015, Almirón made his senior international debut in a 3–2 friendly loss away to Chile, playing the final nine minutes in place of Jonathan Fabbro. [ 37 ] Manager Ramón Díaz called him up the keep up May for the Copa América Centenario in the United States, where he started two matches in a group-stage die. [ 38 ] In March 2019, in a friendly against Mexico at Levi ‘s Stadium, Almirón came on as a stand-in. Seven minutes subsequently, he received a straight red card for a foul on José Juan Vázquez in which he dragged his studs down the back of the opponent ‘s leg. [ 39 ] On 10 October the lapp year, he was sent off for diving in a 1–0 friendly loss to Serbia. [ 40 ]

personal life [edit ]

Almirón has been married to his wife Alexia Notto since November 2016 ; the couple ‘s first child, a son named Francesco, was born in June 2021. [ 41 ]

career statistics [edit ]

club [edit ]

As of 2 October 2021[42][43]

International [edit ]

As of match played 28 June 2021[44]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Paraguay 2015 1 0
2016 6 0
2017 5 0
2018 2 0
2019 12 2
2020 3 0
2021 6 1
Total 35 3
As of match played 24 June 2021. Paraguay score listed first, score column indicates score after each Almirón goal.[44]

Honours [edit ]

Cerro Porteño
Lanús
Atlanta United
Individual

References [edit ]