Alejandro Portal
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Alejandro Miguel Portal Oliva | ||
Date of birth | 21 October 1995 | ||
Place of birth | Quivicán, Cuba | ||
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Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team
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Vaughan Azzurri | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2013–2015 | Mayabeque | ||
2016–2017 | Isla de La Juventud | 27 | (4) |
2017–2018 | Cienfuegos | 19 | (0) |
2018 | Pinar del Río | ||
2019 | La Habana | ||
2021 | Vaughan Azzurri | 1 | (0) |
2021 | HFX Wanderers | 10 | (0) |
2022– | Vaughan Azzurri | 16 | (1) |
International career‡ | |||
2015 | Cuba U20 | 2 | (0) |
2015–2019 | Cuba | 7 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21 August 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 9 September 2021 |
Alejandro Miguel Portal Oliva (born 21 October 1995) is a Cuban professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Vaughan Azzurri in League1 Ontario.
Early life
Portal was born in the town of Quivicán, located south of Havana.[1]
Club career
Portal began his career with second-division Torneo de Ascenso side Mayabeque in 2013.[1] In 2015, he moved up to the Campeonato Nacional with Isla de La Juventud, making 27 appearances and scoring four goals over two seasons.[1] In 2017, he joined Cienfuegos, making nineteen appearances over two seasons.[1] He spent 2018 and 2019 with Pinar del Río and La Habana, respectively.[1]
In 2020, he began training with League1 Ontario side Vaughan Azzurri and made his debut as a substitute against Darby on 20 August 2021.[2]
On 9 September 2021, Portal signed his first professional contract with Canadian Premier League side HFX Wanderers.[3][4] He made his debut on 18 September against York United FC.[5] He departed the club at the end of the season.[6]
In 2022, he returned to playing for Vaughan Azzurri.[7]
International career
Portal made his debut for the Cuban national team in a 2015 friendly against Nicaragua.[1] He returned to the team four years later for a friendly against Bermuda in 2019.[1] He was later selected for the 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup squad, where he appeared in all three matches for Cuba.[1]
After Cuba's 6–0 loss to Canada during CONCACAF Nations League qualifying in September, he defected into Canada.[8]
References
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External links
- Alejandro Portal at Soccerway
- Alejandro Portal at National-Football-Teams.comLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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- Living people
- 1995 births
- Cuban footballers
- Cuba international footballers
- Association football midfielders
- FC Mayabeque players
- FC Isla de La Juventud players
- FC Cienfuegos players
- FC Pinar del Río players
- FC Ciudad de La Habana players
- HFX Wanderers FC players
- League1 Ontario players
- 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
- 2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship players
- People from Quivicán
- Cuba under-20 international footballers
- Defecting Cuban footballers
- Vaughan Azzurri players