Álex Calatrava Torrado (born 22 June 2000) is a Spanish professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who plays as a winger for

CD Castellón Club Deportivo Castellón, S.A.D. is a professional List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football team based in Castellón de la Plana, in the Valencian Community. Founded on 20 July 1922, it currently plays in , holding home games at ''Nou E ...

Career

Born in

Parets del Vallès Parets del Vallès () is a municipality situated 23 km north of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain, in the south-west of the comarca of Vallès Oriental, and 7 km from its capital Granollers. It covers an area of 8,98 km2, and has approx ...

Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...

Catalonia Catalonia is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationalities and regions of Spain, nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 2006, Statute of Autonomy. Most of its territory (except the Val d'Aran) is situate ...

, Calatrava began his career at

CF Damm Club de Futbol Damm is a List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football team based in Barcelona, in the autonomous community of Catalonia. Founded in 1954, it is dedicated to youth football. Their ''Juvenil A'' squad play in the Group III of t ...

. He subsequently spent two years at

FC Barcelona Futbol Club Barcelona (), commonly known as FC Barcelona and colloquially as Barça (), is a professional Football club (association football), football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of ...

La Masia La Masia de Can Planes, usually shortened to La Masia (; ), is FC Barcelona's youth academy. It includes more than 300 young players and has been an instrumental factor in Barcelona's European success, producing several world class players and ...

before returning to Damm and playing for

UA Horta Unió Atlètica d'Horta is a football team based in Barcelona. Founded in 1922, it plays in . Its stadium is ''Municipal d’Horta'' with a capacity of 2,500 seats. History The club was founded on April 18, 1922, after the merge of Club Esporti ...

. Calatrava made his senior debut with Horta on 22 April 2018, coming on as a late substitute in a 2–0

Tercera División Tercera División () was the fourth tier of the Spanish football league system. Until 1977, it was the third tier of the Spanish football league system. Founded in 1929, it was below the ''Primera División'' (also known as La Liga), the ''Segund ...

away loss to

CE Europa Club Esportiu Europa () is a Catalan football team based in the city of Barcelona, with close links to the Vila de Gràcia, in the autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain. Founded in 1907, its first men's team plays in the , the fourth category ...

. In July, he joined

UE Sant Andreu Unió Esportiva Sant Andreu () is a Spanish football club based in the district of Sant Andreu in Barcelona, Catalonia. Founded in 1909, it plays in , holding home matches at '' Camp Municipal Narcís Sala'', with an all-seated capacity of 6,56 ...

and returned to youth setup, before moving to

Primera Catalana The Primera Catalana is the 7th tier of the Spanish football league system and the second highest league in the autonomous community of Catalonia. The league was formed in 1991 to replace Regional Preferent as the first level of Catalonia and was ...

side CE Parets in the following year. On 10 June 2020, Calatrava signed for

UE Sants Unió Esportiva Sants is a football team based in Barcelona. Founded in 1922, it plays in Primera Catalana – Group 2. Its stadium is Camp de futbol de l’Energia, with a capacity of 1,000. It used to have a cycling section that was responsibl ...

in the fourth tier. A regular starter as the club avoided relegation, he left on 19 June 2021. On 1 July 2021, Calatrava agreed to a deal with

Primera División RFEF Primera may refer to * Nissan Primera, a car * Primera Air, a former airline * Primera división (disambiguation), multiple top division football leagues * Primera, Texas, a town in Cameron County, Texas * Alí Primera Ely Rafael Primera Ros ...

side

UE Llagostera C.F. Badalona Futur Sociedad Anónima Deportiva, S.A.D. is a List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football team based in Badalona, Province of Barcelona, Barcelona, in the Autonomous Community of Catalonia. Founded in 1947, it currently plays ...

; the club changed name to UE Costa Brava at the end of the month. The following 31 January, he moved to

Atlético Madrid Club Atlético de Madrid, S.A.D. (; meaning "Athletic Club of Madrid"), commonly referred to as Atlético Madrid or simply Atlético, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid that plays in La Liga. The club play their home game ...

on a two-and-a-half-year contract, being assigned to the reserves in Segunda División RFEF. On 11 July 2024,

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Calatrava joined

, newly-promoted to

Segunda División The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Segunda División, commonly known as Segunda División or La Liga 2, and officially known as LaLiga HyperMotion for sponsorship reasons, is the men's second professional association football division of the Spa ...

. He made his professional debut on 17 August, replacing Óscar Gil in a 1–0 away loss to

SD Eibar Sociedad Deportiva Eibar (in ) is a Spanish football league teams, Spanish professional football club based in Eibar, Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country. Founded on 30 November 1940, the men’s te ...

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Calatrava, Alex 2000 births Living people People from Vallès Oriental Footballers from the Province of Barcelona Spanish men's footballers Men's association football wingers Segunda División players Primera Federación players Tercera División players Divisiones Regionales de Fútbol players CF Damm players UA Horta players UE Sants players Som Maresme FC players Atlético Madrid B players CD Castellón footballers 21st-century Spanish sportsmen