Miguel Ángel Almirón Rejala (born 10 February 1994) is a Paraguayan professional
footballer
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who plays as an
attacking midfielder
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or
right winger
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for
Major League Soccer
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club
Atlanta United
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and the
Paraguay national team.
Almirón began his career at
Cerro Porteño
Club Cerro Porteño is a professional Paraguayan Association football, football club, based in the neighbourhood of Obrero (Asunción), Obrero in Asunción. Founded in 1912, Cerro has won 34 Paraguayan Primera División, Primera División titles ...
and transferred to
Lanús
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in 2015. After winning the
2016 Argentine Primera División
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, he signed for
Atlanta United
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for $8 million. He was named in the
MLS Best XI
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Winners
Appearances by player
The following players ...
for both of his seasons in
Major League Soccer
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, as well as
MLS Newcomer of the Year for 2017. After helping Atlanta to the
MLS Cup 2018
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he signed for Newcastle for £21 million, a club record and the highest fee for an MLS player. In January 2025, Almirón completed a return to Atlanta United.
Almirón made his international debut for Paraguay in 2015, and represented the country at the
Copa América
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in
2016
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* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
,
2019
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Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
,
2021
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, and
2024
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.
Early life
Almirón was born into an
impoverished family in the
San Pablo neighborhood of
Asunción
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, where his father Ruben worked 18-hour shifts as a security guard and his mother Sonia worked in a supermarket.
He trained with
Club 3 de Noviembre
Club 3 de Noviembre is a Paraguayan football club based in Asunción. It was founded on May 15, 1959, and currently competes in the Primera B Metropolitana league of the Tercera División, the third-tier of Paraguayan football. They play their ho ...
from the age of seven and trialed with other teams but was considered "too frail" by his coaches to become a professional footballer.
The seven members of his household slept in three bedrooms, and he had to share a bed with his mother until he was 18.
Club career
Cerro Porteño
Rejected from Club Nacional
Club Nacional is a Paraguayan professional football club based in the neighbourhood of Obrero in Asunción. Founded in 1904, the club currently plays in the Paraguayan Primera División, and holds its home games at Estadio Arsenio Erico.
Int ...
for being too lightweight, Almirón moved to Cerro Porteño
Club Cerro Porteño is a professional Paraguayan Association football, football club, based in the neighbourhood of Obrero (Asunción), Obrero in Asunción. Founded in 1912, Cerro has won 34 Paraguayan Primera División, Primera División titles ...
. His new club still had reservations about his physique, and he did not play regularly until he was on their under-17 side.[
]
Lanús
In August 2015, Almirón signed for Club Atlético Lanús
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in the Argentine Primera División
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. Introduced slowly in his first season by Lanús manager Guillermo Barros Schelotto
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Barros Schelotto played 16 years of his professional career in the Argent ...
, Almirón came to the forefront the next season in the shortened 2016 Argentine Primera División
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under Jorge Almirón
Jorge Francisco Almirón Quintana (born June 19, 1971), commonly known as Jorge Almirón, is an Argentine football manager and former player who played as a defensive midfielder. He is the manager of Chilean club Colo-Colo.
Career
On July 26, 1 ...
. Playing as an advanced central midfielder, Almirón was pivotal in Lanús' 2016 Argentine Primera División
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title win, scoring key goals against local rivals Banfield in the Clásico del Sur, and later in the final against San Lorenzo
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. A few months later, in August 2016, Almirón set-up the only goal in Lanús' Copa Bicentenario victory over Racing
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.
Atlanta United FC
On 5 December 2016, Almirón signed with the new Major League Soccer
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expansion team Atlanta United FC
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. He joined as a "Young Designated Player" and Atlanta paid a transfer fee of around $8 million to Lanús. The club also paid $50,000 in general allocation money to Seattle Sounders FC
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, who held the MLS discovery rights to Almirón.
Almirón was an important figure in Atlanta United's first season, described as the "heartbeat" of the team by veteran teammate Jeff Larentowicz. On 12 March, Almirón scored his first goals for the club, notching a brace in the club's second game, a 6–1 victory over fellow MLS newcomers Minnesota United FC
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. He scored the second hat-trick in club history on 20 May against the Houston Dynamo
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, and scored two goals a week later against New York City FC
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. Almirón joined teammates Greg Garza and Michael Parkhurst
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in the MLS All-Star Game
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on 2 August, and topped the league's list of 24 players under the age of 24, released on 28 September. During the regular season, Almirón was named to seven Teams of the Week by Major League Soccer, and was named Player of the Week twice. At the end of the season, he was named to the league's Best XI and was named Newcomer of the Year.
In April 2018, Almirón was named MLS Player of the Month for his five goals and two assists as Atlanta went unbeaten with three wins and a draw.[ With 12 goals and 14 assists, he was again named in the MLS Best XI, alongside teammate ]Josef Martínez
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.[ Atlanta won ]MLS Cup 2018
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against the Portland Timbers
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in only their second season of existence, and Almirón was named in the Team of the 2018 MLS Cup Playoffs.
Newcastle United
On 31 January 2019, Almirón joined Premier League
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side Newcastle United
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for an undisclosed fee on a five-and-a-half-year deal. The transfer fee is believed to be around £21 million, at the time, a club record fee, and a record for an MLS player. He made his Premier League debut on 11 February in a 1–1 draw at Wolverhampton Wanderers
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, playing the final 18 minutes in place of Christian Atsu. Fans and media likened Almirón to Santiago Muñez, a fictional Newcastle player from the film ''Goal!'' who also originated from Latin America and moved to St James' Park
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via the United States. During a match against Southampton on 20 April, he was tackled by Oriol Romeu
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Romeu began his career at FC ...
and suffered a hamstring injury that ruled him out for the rest of the season. Almirón struggled to score in his first months with Newcastle, but helped his side to avoid relegation. After registering a total of 40 shots with no goals, he scored his first Premier League goal on 21 December in a 1–0 victory over Crystal Palace
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. He finished the season with a club-best eight goals in all competitions.
On 6 February 2021, Almirón scored twice in a 3–2 home win over Southampton
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, a game in which he ran 11.29 km, the most on his team. He had then scored four goals in his last 12 Premier League games, the same as he scored in the 55 before that.
On 21 August 2022, Almirón broke a goal-scoring drought by scoring an equalizer against Manchester City
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, following a cross from Newcastle teammate Allan Saint-Maximin
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. In October, Almirón scored six goals in six matches, with two goals against Fulham
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, and one each against Brentford
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Its economy has dive ...
, Everton, Tottenham Hotspur
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and Aston Villa
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, reaching seven Premier League goals for the season, the most in his time in the Premier League
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. Following that success, he won Premier League Player of the Month
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for October 2022 and Premier League Goal of the Month for his first-half goal against Fulham. On 6 November, Almirón continued his scoring run with the opening goal against Southampton in a 4–1 victory, scoring his seventh goal in as many games, one more than in his previous 74 Premier League appearances. The next weekend against Chelsea, his scoring run came to an end, but he assisted Joe Willock for the only goal of the game.
On 24 February 2023, Almirón signed a new three-and-a-half-year contract with the club. On 4 October of the same year, he scored his first goal in the UEFA Champions League
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, becoming the ninth Paraguayan player to score in the competition and putting Newcastle ahead 1–0 against Paris Saint-Germain
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in an eventual 4–1 win. His goal was Newcastle's first in the competition in over 20 years, since Alan Shearer
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scored in 2003.
Return to Atlanta United
On 30 January 2025, Almirón rejoined Atlanta United. The club paid $400,000 in general allocation money to Charlotte FC
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, who had acquired the MLS discovery rights to Almirón.
International career
Almirón played for the Paraguay under-20 national team in the 2013 South American Youth Football Championship in Argentina, and was highly involved as his team finished second to Colombia
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. Later that year, he was called up for the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup
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in Turkey, where Paraguay reached the last 16.
On 5 September 2015, Almirón made his senior international debut in a 3–2 friendly loss away to Chile
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, playing the final nine minutes in place of Jonathan Fabbro. Manager Ramón Díaz
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Díaz notably played for Club Atlético River Plate, River Plate as a Forward (association fo ...
called him up the following May for the Copa América Centenario
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in the United States, where he started two matches in a group-stage exit.
In March 2019, in a friendly against Mexico
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at Levi's Stadium
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, Almirón came on as a substitute. Seven minutes later, he received a straight red card for a foul on José Juan Vázquez
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in which he dragged his studs down the back of the opponent's leg. On 10 October the same year, he was sent off for diving in a 1–0 friendly loss to Serbia
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.
Personal life
Miguel Almirón was born on 10 February 1994, in Asunción
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, Paraguay
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. He grew up in the San Pablo neighborhood in a family environment marked by economic constraints.[ His father, Rubén Almirón, worked 18-hour shifts as a security guard, while his mother, Sonia Rejala, worked at a supermarket.] The house shared by the seven family members had only three bedrooms, which meant that Almirón had to share a bed with his mother until he was 18. For much of his childhood, he lived with his grandparents.[ Almirón is ]Catholic
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, as evidenced by two religious quotes tattooed on his arms. He married his high school sweetheart, Alexia Notto, who is a dancer, Zumba
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instructor, and influencer
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. The marriage took place on 29 August 2016, and on 6 June 2021, they welcomed their first child, Francesco.
Career statistics
Club
International
:''As of match played 19 November 2024. Paraguay score listed first, score column indicates score after each Almirón goal.''[
]
Honours
Cerro Porteño
*Paraguayan Primera División
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: 2013 Clausura, 2015 Apertura
Lanús
*Argentine Primera División
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: 2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
*Copa Bicentenario: 2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
Atlanta United
*MLS Cup
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: 2018
Events January
* January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency.
* January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
Newcastle United
*EFL Cup
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Orga ...
: 2024–25; runner-up: 2022–23
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Individual
*Paraguayan Footballer of the Year
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(''ABC Color
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Histor ...
'' vote): 2017, 2018, 2022
*Paraguayan Footballer of the Year
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(Public vote): 2017, 2022
*MLS Best XI
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Winners
Appearances by player
The following players ...
: 2017
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Events January
* January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...
, 2018
Events January
* January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency.
* January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
* MLS Newcomer of the Year: 2017
*MLS All-Star
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: 2017
2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly.
Events January
* January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...
, 2018
Events January
* January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency.
* January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
* MLS Player of the Month: April 2018
*Premier League Player of the Month
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: October 2022
* Premier League Goal of the Month: April 2022, October 2022
References
External links
Miguel Almirón
at the Newcastle United F.C. website
*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Almiron, Miguel
1994 births
Living people
Footballers from Asunción
Paraguayan men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Cerro Porteño players
Club Atlético Lanús footballers
Atlanta United FC players
Newcastle United F.C. players
Paraguayan Primera División players
Argentine Primera División players
Major League Soccer players
Major League Soccer All-Stars
Designated Players (MLS)
Premier League players
Paraguay men's under-20 international footballers
Paraguay men's international footballers
Footballers at the 2015 Pan American Games
Copa América Centenario players
2019 Copa América players
2021 Copa América players
2024 Copa América players
Paraguayan expatriate men's footballers
Paraguayan expatriate sportspeople in Argentina
Paraguayan expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Paraguayan expatriate sportspeople in England
Expatriate men's footballers in Argentina
Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
Expatriate men's footballers in England
Pan American Games competitors for Paraguay
21st-century Paraguayan sportsmen