Pedraza: Alfonso

2017-2017 (Player Leeds Details)(Player Details)

Left Winger

Born: San Sebastian de los Ballesteros, Cordoba, Andalusia, Spain: 09-04-1996

Debut: Huddersfield Town (a) (substitute): 05-02-2017

Height & Weight: 6ft 0ins 11st 11lb

Pedraza started his career at Seneca and joined the Villareal youth team in 2011 when fifteen. He progressed through the Villreal third and second teams, making hissecond team debut on 11th January 2015, as a second-half substitute in the 2–2 away draw against CF Reus Deportiu. He scored his first goal on 1st March 2015, as he grabbed the only goal of the game in a home win over CD Atletico Baleares.He was then called up into the first team squad and made his debut for the Villareal first team, away at Valencia, as a seventy-third minute substitute for Jonathan de Santos in a 0-0 draw on 5th April 2015 and picked up a yellow card two minutes into injury time. The teenager made another four appearances for Villareal’s first team. Three games in La Liga, as a sixty-fifth minute substitute for Jonathan dos Santos in a 0-3 home defeat by Espanyol four days after his debut, followed by his run-on debut in a 0-1 loss at Levante on 4th October 2015, when he was replaced at half-time by Sami Castillejo, and another start on 17th April 2016 in a 1-2 loss at Real Vallecano, when he was replaced by Nahuel Leiva after sixty-one minutes. He also had a substitute appearance in the Europa League, in a 0-0 draw at Bayer Leverkusen on 17th March 2016, when he was an eighty-ninth minute replacement for Denis Suarez. He had also been noticed by the Spanish international selectors and in 2015 he was in the Spanish Under-Nineteen team that won the European Championship and scored three goals in gaining seven caps, and he went on to twice play for the Under-Twenty-One side in March 2016. He made his debut in a 0-3 home defeat by Croatia on 24th March, when he replaced Dani Ceballos after fifty- four minutes and four days later he was called off the bench in a 1-0 home win over Norway to replace Gerard Deulofeu for the final two minutes. He joined CD Lugo on a one year loan in August 2016, making his debut on 21st August 2016 in a 2–2 away draw against Gimnastic de Tarragona, and scored his first goal for them in the same game, when he opened the scoring in the twenty-first minute. Six days later he repeated the feat with a thirty-eighth minute goal in a 3-3 home draw with Real Zaragoza. He had scored six goals in twenty-three starts for Lugo when Villareal paid them £300,000 to cut short his loan on 30th January 2017 and the following day they loaned him to Leeds United for the rest of the season. The deal with Leeds included an option to buy the young Spaniard for £8.5 million in May, provided Leeds won promotion to the EPL at that stage. He was given the #29 Leeds Shirt. He soon made his first team debut coming off the bench in the bench to replace Souleymane Doukara in the sixty-second minute of the 1-2 away defeat at the hands of Huddersfield Town on 5th February 2017. He was made his run on debut on 11th February 2017 in the 0-2 home defeat at the hands of Cardiff City, when he was replaced by Kemar Roofe after seventy-one minutes. He scored his first goal in his next appearance, when he came on for Souleymane Doukara in the seventy-third minute and eight minutes later he scored United's third goal to clinch a 3-1 away win over Birmingham City on 3rd March 2017. He then started the next two games, in a 1-1 draw at Fulham on 7th March and a 0-0 draw at home to Queens Park Rangers four days later. He was replaced in both games, by Stuart Dallas after eighty-two minutes, in the first and by Souleymane Doukara, seventeen minutes from time, and he also was given his first yellow card. He returned to Villareal, at the end of his loan period, at the end of the 2016-17 season and, with Leeds not having obtained promotion, any permanent transfer was not discussed.