Álvaro Valles

Álvaro Valles
Personal information
Full name	Álvaro Valles Rosa
Date of birth	25 July 1997 (age 26)
Place of birth	La Rinconada, Spain
Height	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team	Las Palmas
Number	13
Youth career
2007–2014	Real Madrid
2014–2016	Betis
Senior career*
Years	Team
2016–2018	Betis B
2017–2018	→ Gerena (loan)
2018-2019	Las Palmas B
2019–	Las Palmas
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18 September 2023

Álvaro Valles Rosa (born 25 July 1997) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Las Palmas as a goalkeeper.

Career edit

Born in La Rinconada, Seville, Andalusia, Valles finished his formation with Real Betis. He made his senior debut with the reserves on 16 October 2016, starting in a 3–0 Tercera División away win against CD Guadalcacín.

On 6 September 2017, after being rarely used, Valles was loaned to CD Gerena of the fourth division, for one year.^[2] On 10 July of the following year, he moved to another reserve team, UD Las Palmas Atlético of the Segunda División B.^[3]

Vallés made his first-team debut for the Canarians on 13 October 2019, playing the full 90 minutes in a 3–0 home defeat of Deportivo de La Coruña in the Segunda División.^[4] He subsequently established himself as a starter for the main squad under Pepe Mel, overtaking fellow youth graduate Josep Martínez and Raúl Fernández.

^ "Àlvaro Valles" (in Spanish). UD Las Palmas. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
^ "Valles, cedido al Gerena" [Valles, loaned to Gerena] (in Spanish). Estadio Deportivo. 6 September 2017. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
^ "Álvaro Valles nuevo fichaje de Las Palmas Atlético" [Álvaro Valles new signing of Las Palmas Atlético] (in Spanish). UD Las Palmas. 10 July 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
^ "La sociedad Pedri-Pekhart lanza a Las Palmas y hunde al Dépor" [The society Pedri-Pekhart launch Las Palmas and sink Dépor] (in Spanish). Marca. 13 October 2019. Retrieved 14 October 2019.