Alberto Baldé

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Alberto Baldé
Personal information
Full name Alberto Baldé Almánzar
Date of birth (2002-03-21) 21 March 2002 (age 22)
Place of birth Madrid, Spain
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
Loughgall
Number 18
Youth career
2014–2017 Portadown
2017-2022 Middlesbrough
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2017–2018 Portadown 4 (1)
2018–2022 Middlesbrough 0 (0)
2021Pickering Town (loan) 0 (0)
2022–2023 Portadown 29 (1)
2023– Loughgall 16 (0)
International career
2017 Northern Ireland U15 2 (0)
2017 Northern Ireland U16 9 (4)
2022– Dominican Republic 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 June 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 09:34, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

Alberto Baldé Almánzar (born 21 March 2002) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for NIFL Premiership side Loughgall. Born in Spain and raised in Northern Ireland, he plays for the Dominican Republic national team.

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Early life

Baldé was born in Madrid, Spain to a Bissau-Guinean father and an Afro-Dominican mother. He moved to Northern Ireland with his mother at a young age. [1]

Club career

Baldé joined the youth academy of the Northern Ireland club Portadown at the age of 12 when he knew no English, and gained national attention as the focus of a Google advertisement highlighting how his coaches used Google Translate to communicate with him. [2] At 15, he became their youngest ever goalscorer in a 2–1 NIFL Championship win over Knockbreda. [3] He joined Middlesbrough's reserves in 2018. [4] He briefly joined non-league club Pickering Town on loan in November 2021. [5] He was released by Middlesbrough when his contract ended in June 2022, [1] and rejoined Portadown.

International career

Baldé is a youth international for the Northern Ireland U15s and Northern Ireland U16s in 2017. [6] [7] He was called up to the Dominican Republic national team for matches in June 2022. [8] He debuted with the Dominican Republic in a 3–2 CONCACAF Nations League loss to French Guiana on 5 June 2022, coming on as a substitute in the 67th minute. [9]

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