Alfonso Pastor

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Pastor and the second or maternal family name is Vacas.
Alfonso Pastor
Personal information
Full name Alfonso Pastor Vacas
Date of birth (2000-10-04) 4 October 2000 (age 24)
Place of birth Bujalance, Spain
Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Levante
Youth career
Bujalance
Séneca
2013–2019 Sevilla
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2019–2022 Sevilla B 48 (0)
2020–2024 Sevilla 0 (0)
2022–2023 → Castellón (loan) 34 (0)
2024– Levante 0 (0)
International career
2017 Spain U17 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 30 June 2023

Alfonso Pastor Vacas (born 4 October 2000) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Levante UD.

Club career

Born in Bujalance, Seville, Andalusia, Pastor joined Sevilla FC's youth setup in 2013,[2] after representing Séneca CF and AD FB de Bujalance.[3] On 1 September 2018, while still a youth, he renewed his contract until 2021.[4]

Pastor made his senior debut with the reserves on 30 March 2019, starting in a 1–0 Segunda División B home win against UD Almería B.[5] Definitely promoted to the B-side for the 2019–20 campaign, he was mainly a first-choice[6] as the season was curtailed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

On 3 December 2020, as starter Bono tested positive to COVID-19 and immediate backup Tomáš Vaclík suffered an injury in the warm-up, Pastor made his first team debut by playing the full 90 minutes of a 4–0 home loss against Chelsea.[7] He subsequently lost his starting spot to Javi Díaz at the B-side, before being loaned out to Primera Federación side CD Castellón on 16 August 2022.[8]

On 17 January 2024, after spending the first half of the campaign unregistered, Pastor joined Levante UD on a short-term deal;[9] despite being announced at the reserves, he never featured for the side, being only a third-choice behind Joan Femenías and Andrés Fernández with the main squad. On 4 July, he renewed his contract until 2026.[10]

International career

Pastor represented Spain at under-17 level in the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup, acting as a backup to Álvaro Fernández as his side finished second in the tournament.[11]

References

  1. ^ "Alfonso Pastor". Sevilla FC. Archived from the original on 16 July 2022. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
  2. ^ "Alfonso Pastor, la única nota positiva de una aciaga noche de Champions" [Alfonso Pastor, the only positive note of a ominous Champions night]. ABC (in Spanish). 3 December 2020. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  3. ^ "Alfonso Pastor, un cordobés en la Champions" [Alfonso Pastor, a cordobés in the Champions]. Diario de Córdoba (in Spanish). 3 December 2020. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  4. ^ "El guardameta canterano Alfonso Pastor renueva hasta 2021" [Youth squad goalkeeper Alfonso Pastor renews until 2021] (in Spanish). Sevilla FC. 1 September 2018. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  5. ^ "Alfonso Pastor, el portero canterano que aprieta" [Alfonso Pastor, the youth squad goalkeeper who pushes for it]. El Desmarque (in Spanish). 30 March 2019. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  6. ^ "Alfonso Pastor, un cordobés cerca de las estrellas" [Alfonso Pastor, a cordobés close to the stars]. El Día de Córdoba (in Spanish). 27 September 2019. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  7. ^ "Alfonso Pastor debuta en la portería del Sevilla ante el Chelsea, por la baja de Vaclik" [Alfonso Pastor debuts on the goal of Sevilla after the injury of Vaclik]. Diario AS (in Spanish). 3 December 2020. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  8. ^ "Alfonso Pastor, nuevo jugador del CD Castellón" [Alfonso Pastor, new player of CD Castellón] (in Spanish). CD Castellón. 16 August 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
  9. ^ "Alfonso Pastor refuerza la portería del Atlético Levante UD" [Alfonso Pastor bolsters the goal of Atlético Levante UD] (in Spanish). Levante UD. 17 January 2024. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
  10. ^ "Alfonso Pastor renueva su vinculación con el Levante UD" [Alfonso Pastor renews his link with Levante UD] (in Spanish). Levante UD. 4 July 2024. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
  11. ^ "Lara y Alfonso, subcampeones del mundo sub 17" [Lara and Alfonso, second place in the U-17 World Cup]. El Desmarque (in Spanish). 28 October 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2020.