Marcos Alonso
Marcos Alonso
Alonso keeps the blue flag flying high!
Chelsea maintained their advantage at the top of the Premier League with a 3-1 away win at Bournemouth. Chelsea took the lead in the 17th-minute when Bournemouth defender, Adam Smith, headed into his own net. Eden Hazard extended Chelsea's lead in more traditional fashion, just two minutes later. N'Golo Kante played a fantastic through ball and Hazard went round the goalkeeper with ease. Bournemouth, however, fought back, and scored a goal just before the break. Joshua King scored his 11th goal of the season and only Harry Kane and Romelu Lukaku have scored more goals than King in 2017. But, Chelsea extended their lead in the second half when Marcos Alonso scored a wonderful free kick. The Chelsea defender hit the free kick with power and accuracy. The ball went over the wall and into the very top corner of the goal. Has there been a better free kick scored this season?
Well done, my friend. What a free kick! Congratulations!
Eden Hazard, talking to Alonso on TV after the match.
What do we know about Marcos Alonso?
Marcos Alonso Mendoza was born on 28 December 1990 in Madrid, the capital of Spain. He joined Real Madrid's youth team when he was just nine years old and represented the famous Spanish team at every level of youth football. When he was 18, Alonso started to play for Real Madrid Castilla, which is Real Madrid's reserve team. He played 39 times for Castilla and during this time also played for the Spanish team at under-19 level. He made his way into the first team squad in 2009/10, under the management of Manuel Pelligrini, the ex-Manchester City manager. In April 2010, Alonso made his debut for Real Madrid when he came on as a 90th minute substitute. Unfortunately, this was the only appearance Alonso made for Real Madrid and in the summer of 2010 Alonso started his Premier League journey.
We have seven games to play and we will be ready for the seven games.
Marcos Alonso.
Is Alonso new to the Premier League?
Alonso's first Premier League club was Bolton Wanderers, who are now in League One (the third level of English football). He made nine appearances for Bolton in 2010/11 and 2011/12, and could do nothing to stop Bolton from being relegated. The following season, in the Championship, Alonso became a regular starter and was voted Player of the Season by Bolton fans. His impressive performances for Bolton earned Alonso a move to Florence, Italy to play for Fiorentina in Serie A. But, Alonso couldn't stay away from the Premier League and during his first season in Italy he was sent out on loan to play for Sunderland, which became his second Premier League club. He played only 16 times for the Black Cats but was very successful. He helped Sunderland win their relegtion fight, he helped the team reach the League Cup Final (after beating Man Utd in the semi-finals) and helped Sunderland beat Newcastle 3-0 in the Tyne-Wear Derby. At the end of the season, however, Alonso returned to Italy. He had played over 80 times for Fiorentina when, in September 2016, Chelsea paid a reported fee of £24 million to bring Alonso back to the Premier League for a third time.
I think this is the perfect place for me to continue developing. It's time for me to win some titles!
Marcos Alonso, speaking about signing for Chelsea in Sptember 2016.
What did his dad (and grandad) do?
Marcos Alonso is not the first successful footballer from his family. Alonso's father, also called Marcos, was a winger for both Athletico Madrid and Barcelona in the 1980s. He played over 100 times for both clubs. He won La Liga with Barcelona in 1984/85 and reached the Final of the European Cup with Barcelona in 1986. He also helped Spain reach the final of the 1984 European Championships in France. Marcos Alonso's grandfather, like his father also called Marcos, was a professional footballer, too. His nickname was Marquitos and he was part of possibly the most successful club team in football history. He played for Real Madrid in the 1950s and Marquitos won La Liga six times and was part of the Real Madrid team that won the European Cup five times in a row from 1955 to 1960. Marcos Alonso 'junior' could win his first title with Chelsea this season but he needs to win a few more if he wants to catch up with his grandad! Football certainly runs in the family!
Player | Family |
Kasper Schmeichel | Peter Schmeichel |
Eniola Aluko | Sone Aluko |
Andre Ayew | Jordan Ayew |
Yaya Toure | Kolo Toure |
Chícharito | Chícharo |
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Did you see Marcos Alonso's free kick? How good are Chelsea this season?
Alonso only played one minute for Real Madrid. Do you think this is the shortest ever club career?
Alonso comes from a famous football family. Do you know any other football families?
Can you guess the Premier League and family connections in the table in the article?
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13/09/2022
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• I watched him lots of times. Marcos Alonso is real gentle player I never saw him becoming angry or shouting anyone.
An interesting penalty decision in LaLiga;
• Opponent player made a cross. Defender jump up to the air in order to throw the ball away from the goal but he wasn't successful. The ball directly went to the other opponent player standing behind him and his shoot bumped back of defender's arm. Penalty was given although defender hadn't have chance to see the ball.
13/09/2022 16:38
Tottenham Hotspur
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• I watched him lots of times. Marcos Alonso is real gentle player I never saw him becoming angry or shouting anyone.
An interesting penalty decision in LaLiga;
• Opponent player made a cross. Defender jump up to the air in order to throw the ball away from the goal but he wasn't successful. The ball directly went to the other opponent player standing behind him and his shoot bumped back of defender's arm. Penalty was given although defender hadn't have chance to see the ball.
01/03/2021
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Did you see Marcos Alonso's free kick? How good are Chelsea this season? Yes I did. They are having a great season in the Mourinho era.
Alonso only played one minute for Real Madrid. Do you think this is the shortest ever club career? No, I don't because Alonso is going to have a great career.
Alonso comes from a famous football family. Do you know any other football families? Erling Halland and Alf inge Halland.
Can you guess the Premier League and family connections in the table in the article? They are sons and fathers.
01/03/2021 04:29
Chelsea
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Did you see Marcos Alonso's free kick? How good are Chelsea this season? Yes I did. They are having a great season in the Mourinho era.
Alonso only played one minute for Real Madrid. Do you think this is the shortest ever club career? No, I don't because Alonso is going to have a great career.
Alonso comes from a famous football family. Do you know any other football families? Erling Halland and Alf inge Halland.
Can you guess the Premier League and family connections in the table in the article? They are sons and fathers.
28/06/2020
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Of course I know some other football families such as Hazard's family , Schmeichel's family and Chicharito's family.
28/06/2020 23:59
Manchester United
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Of course I know some other football families such as Hazard's family , Schmeichel's family and Chicharito's family.
28/06/2020
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That's odd to play just one minute for a club but honestly I don't like Real Madrid so I don't care.
28/06/2020 23:57
Manchester United
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That's odd to play just one minute for a club but honestly I don't like Real Madrid so I don't care.
28/06/2020
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Yes I saw all of his brilliant free kicks. Chelsea were massive that season.
28/06/2020 23:56
Manchester United
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Yes I saw all of his brilliant free kicks. Chelsea were massive that season.
16/12/2018
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great
16/12/2018 03:02
Manchester United
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great
03/07/2018
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the best goal I ever seeing
03/07/2018 08:44
Chelsea
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the best goal I ever seeing
05/12/2017
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Alonso plays well than I think so he will help Chelsea pick the champion cup.
05/12/2017 12:46
Manchester United
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Alonso plays well than I think so he will help Chelsea pick the champion cup.
08/07/2017
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Yes i do,Andrew Ayew and Jordan Ayew are both players and their father Abede Ayew used to play football.
08/07/2017 17:48
Liverpool
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Yes i do,Andrew Ayew and Jordan Ayew are both players and their father Abede Ayew used to play football.
08/07/2017
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I think so.
08/07/2017 17:46
Liverpool
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I think so.
08/07/2017
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It was a great free kick.
08/07/2017 17:46
Liverpool
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It was a great free kick.
16/04/2017
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Correct me
I have seen his goal. It was really stunning goal. Beautiful free kick! I think he is very good in this year.
I have never heard about him and Real, but I think he deserve more than 1 minute. He is one of the best player on this position nowadays.
16/04/2017 16:58
Chelsea
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Correct me
I have seen his goal. It was really stunning goal. Beautiful free kick! I think he is very good in this year.
I have never heard about him and Real, but I think he deserve more than 1 minute. He is one of the best player on this position nowadays.
16/04/2017
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2- The central midfielder Marcos Llorente plays for Deportivo Alavés on loan from Real Madrid, His father Paco was a winger, his grandfather Ramón Grosso was a forward, and the most famous of all his uncle Francisco Gento the only footballer to win 6 Champions leagues - with Real Madrid
Another player from a sporty family is Enzo Zidane who scored on his debut for Real Madrid
I knew that Eden Hazard is also from a sporty family, after I had read his article in this website
3 The (Ayew)s are brothers as well as the (Toure)s, Peter is Kasper's dad, The rest i dont know
16/04/2017 09:46
Liverpool
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2- The central midfielder Marcos Llorente plays for Deportivo Alavés on loan from Real Madrid, His father Paco was a winger, his grandfather Ramón Grosso was a forward, and the most famous of all his uncle Francisco Gento the only footballer to win 6 Champions leagues - with Real Madrid
Another player from a sporty family is Enzo Zidane who scored on his debut for Real Madrid
I knew that Eden Hazard is also from a sporty family, after I had read his article in this website
3 The (Ayew)s are brothers as well as the (Toure)s, Peter is Kasper's dad, The rest i dont know
14/04/2017
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Chelsea are very well this season.
Really was an amazing goal of Marcos Alonso.
I remember the brothers Laudrup, Neville and Veron's father was also an important Estudiantes player, the twice won the Libertadores das Americas Cup.
14/04/2017 10:55
Arsenal
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Chelsea are very well this season.
Really was an amazing goal of Marcos Alonso.
I remember the brothers Laudrup, Neville and Veron's father was also an important Estudiantes player, the twice won the Libertadores das Americas Cup.
13/04/2017
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Chelsea are number one.Hope to get more comic lessons about football
13/04/2017 17:12
Chelsea
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Chelsea are number one.Hope to get more comic lessons about football
13/04/2017
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Hi Sadulla
Good to hear from you and we're happy that you find the comics useful. Have you used all of them?
http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/read/goal
http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/read/five-united
http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/read/beautiful-game
Rich - The Premier Skills English Team
13/04/2017 17:59
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Hi Sadulla
Good to hear from you and we're happy that you find the comics useful. Have you used all of them?
http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/read/goal
http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/read/five-united
http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/read/beautiful-game
Rich - The Premier Skills English Team
12/04/2017
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Chelsea are really the best this season.
Some players had shorter club career than Marcos Alonso with no play at all.
Schmeichel the Leicester keeper is the son of Karl who was also in the goal.
Ayew is also a big family with the father and the two sons. The Algerian Guedioura played for Watford and others club while his father played for Usma Algiers.
12/04/2017 16:44
Manchester City
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Chelsea are really the best this season.
Some players had shorter club career than Marcos Alonso with no play at all.
Schmeichel the Leicester keeper is the son of Karl who was also in the goal.
Ayew is also a big family with the father and the two sons. The Algerian Guedioura played for Watford and others club while his father played for Usma Algiers.
12/04/2017
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I've never heard for any player with the shortest club appereance in one club. Peter and Casper Schmeichel, Ian Wright and S.W.Philips, Cesare and Paolo Maldini and even his son etc.
12/04/2017 15:49
Arsenal
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I've never heard for any player with the shortest club appereance in one club. Peter and Casper Schmeichel, Ian Wright and S.W.Philips, Cesare and Paolo Maldini and even his son etc.