Álvaro Tejero

Álvaro Tejero
Personal information
Full name Álvaro Tejero Sacristán
Date of birth (1996-07-20) 20 July 1996
Place of birth Madrid, Spain
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)
Playing position Left back
Club information
Current team
 Real Madrid B
Number 3
Youth career
2004–2005 Collado Villalba
2005–2015 Real Madrid
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015 Real Madrid C 3 (0)
2015– Real Madrid B 38 (1)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22 May 2016.


This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Tejero and the second or maternal family name is Sacristán.

Álvaro Tejero Sacristán (born 20 July 1996) is a Spanish footballer who plays for Real Madrid Castilla as a left back.

Club career

Born in Madrid, Tejero joined Real Madrid's youth setup in 2005, after starting it out at CU Collado Villalba. After progressing through its youth setup, he made his senior debut with the C-team in 2015, in Tercera División.

On 5 July 2015, Tejero was promoted to the reserves in Segunda División B by manager Zinedine Zidane.[1] He made his debut for the B-team on 22 August, starting in a 5–1 home routing of CD Ebro.[2]

Tejero made his first team debut on 2 December 2015, coming on as a late substitute for Pepe in a 3–1 Copa del Rey away win against Cádiz CF.[3] Having been the team's only ever-present and missing only 12 minutes of action all season,[4] he scored his first goal for Castilla on 6 February 2016, the game's only against Real Unión at the Estadio Alfredo Di Stefano.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "El nuevo ejército de Zizou" [Zizou's new army] (in Spanish). Marca. 5 July 2015. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  2. ↑ Escudero, Simón (22 August 2015). "Una manita para empezar en el estreno liguero del Castilla" [A spanking to start Castilla's league campaign] (in Spanish). Diario AS. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
  3. ↑ "Victoria indebida" [Unduly win] (in Spanish). Marca. 2 December 2015. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  4. ↑ "Tejero has started all of Castilla's games". Real Madrid. 11 February 2016. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
  5. ↑ "Álvaro Tejero lanza al Castilla" [Álvaro Tejero launches Castilla] (in Spanish). Marca. 6 February 2016. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
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