Santiago Fabio Palacios-Macedo George (born 21 April 1991) is a Mexican

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who plays as a

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for Spanish

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club Pozuelo de Alarcón. He is of French descent.

Career

Palacios played in the youth for hometown club AF Cuernavaca and made his debut in 2008 with the Mexican third-tier club Ajax Jiutepec. He then played for a year in the under-20 team of

UNAM The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...

. In 2011, he left for the Netherlands through Wim Zwitserloot, a Dutch colleague of his father, to play for lower-league side

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and to study International Business and Management Studies at the

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. In the 2014–15 season he became the top goalscorer of the Topklasse Sunday with 27 goals. This earned him a transfer to Roda JC Kerkrade in June 2015. He signed a contract until mid-2017, with an option for another year. The club then sent him on a season-long loan to MVV Maastricht during the 2015–16 season. He made his professional debut on 28 August 2015 in the match against

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. Palacios came on as a substitute for Prince Rajcomar 30 minutes before the final whistle. On 10 August 2016, he was released by Roda JC. He then returned to his native Mexico to continue his career there. Palacios then signed with his former club UNAM, competing in the

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. From July to December 2017, Palacios played on loan at Atlético San Luis, which played in the second-tier

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. In May 2018, Palacios signed with the Spanish club AD Unión Adarve, which played in the

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. In the summer transfer window, however, trainer Víctor Cea and his technical staff moved to Cultural Leonesa, after which the new technical staff indicated that Palacios would have to find a new club, and he was subsequently released. Afterwards he played in the

for the Madrid amateur clubs San Agustín del Guadalix and Pozuelo de Alarcón and went to study sport management at the

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Personal life

Palacios has a bachelor's degree in International Business and Management Studies at the

of Arnhem and speaks fluently Spanish,

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and Dutch. He has also studied sport management at the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Palacios, Santiago Living people 1991 births Men's association football forwards Roda JC Kerkrade players MVV Maastricht players Mexican expatriate men's footballers Mexican men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands Mexican expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands De Treffers players Club Universidad Nacional footballers Liga MX players Atlético San Luis footballers Tercera División players Mexican people of French descent Mexican expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate men's footballers in Spain Sportspeople from Cuernavaca