Alan_Cervantes
Alan Cervantes
Mexican footballer (born 1998)
Alan Josué Cervantes Martín del Campo (born 17 January 1998) is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Liga MX club Santos Laguna.
 Cervantes with Santos Laguna in 2023 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Alan Josué Cervantes Martín del Campo[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1998-01-17) 17 January 1998 (age 26)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Defensive midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Santos Laguna | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 6 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2013–2017 | Guadalajara | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2020 | Guadalajara | 24 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017 | → León (loan) | 8 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2020– | Santos Laguna | 148 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Mexico U17 | 7 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | Mexico U20 | 10 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Mexico U21 | 8 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021 | Mexico U23 | 7 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021–2023 | Mexico | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 9 March 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 7 June 2023 | |||||||||||||||||
Youth
Cervantes joined Guadalajara's youth academy in 2013. He continued through Chivas Youth Academy successfully going through U-15, U-17 and U-20 youth system.[2] Until being given the chance to join first division team Club León making his professional debut under Javier Torrente.[3]
León (loan)
Cervantes joined Leon on a one-year loan without purchase option. He made his professional debut coming in as a substitute against Atlas on 22 July 2017 ending in a 3–0 loss[4]
Guadalajara
Cervantes returned from his loan in December for the 2019 season.
Youth
Cervantes captained all of the national team's matches in the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup in South Korea.
Cervantes was included in the under-21 roster that participated in the 2018 Toulon Tournament,[5] where Mexico would finish runners-up.
Cervantes participated at the 2020 CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Championship, appearing in four matches, where Mexico won the competition.[6]
Senior
On 3 July 2021, Cervantes made his senior national team debut in a 4–0 victory against Nigeria, coming in as a substitute in the 81st minute for Érick Gutiérrez.[7]
Club
- As of 9 March 2024[8]
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Guadalajara | 2017–18 | Liga MX | 2 | 0 | – | 1[lower-alpha 1] | 0 | – | 3 | 0 | ||
| 2018–19 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 0 | – | 1[lower-alpha 2] | 0 | 14 | 1 | |||
| 2019–20 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 0 | – | – | 16 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 24 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 33 | 1 | ||
| León (loan) | 2017–18 | Liga MX | 8 | 0 | 4 | 0 | — | — | 12 | 0 | ||
| Santos Laguna | 2019–20 | Liga MX | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | — | — | 7 | 0 | ||
| 2020–21 | 41 | 0 | — | — | 1[lower-alpha 3] | 0 | 42 | 0 | ||||
| 2021–22 | 32 | 0 | — | 2[lower-alpha 1] | 0 | — | 34 | 0 | ||||
| 2022–23 | 36 | 0 | — | — | — | 36 | 0 | |||||
| 2023–24 | 36 | 1 | — | — | 2[lower-alpha 3] | 0 | 38 | 1 | ||||
| Total | 148 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 157 | 1 | ||
| Career total | 180 | 2 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 202 | 2 | ||
- Appearances in CONCACAF Champions League
- Appearance in FIFA Club World Cup
- Appearances in Leagues Cup
International
- As of match played 7 June 2023[9]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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| Mexico | 2021 | 4 | 0 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 5 | 0 | |
Guadalajara
Mexico Youth
- "FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2018: List of Players: CD Guadalajara" (PDF). FIFA. 6 December 2018. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 December 2018.
- "Cervantes product of Chivas" (in Spanish). Chivaspassion .com.mx. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
- "Cervantes Mexican Promise". Daleleon .com.mx (in Spanish). Jorge Ramos Pérez. 2017-08-14. Archived from the original on 30 September 2017. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
- "Página Oficial de la Liga del Fútbol Profesional en México .: Bienvenido". Ligamx.net. 1998-01-17. Retrieved 2017-07-27.
- "Revelan convocatoria del Tri Sub-21 para el torneo Esperanzas de Toulon". ESPN (in Spanish). 22 May 2018. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
- "México derrotó a Honduras en penales y se alzó como campeón de Concacaf rumbo a Tokio". Infobae. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
- "Mexico crush inexperienced Nigeria in final friendly before Gold Cup". www.fmfstateofmind.com. July 4, 2021.
- Alan Cervantes at Soccerway
- Alan Cervantes at National-Football-Teams.com
- "¡CAMPEONES DE CONCACAF!". chivasdecorazon.com.mx. 25 April 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
- Alan Cervantes at Liga MX (archive) (in Spanish)
- Alan Cervantes at Dale Leon the Future Star (in Spanish) at the Wayback Machine (archived 2017-09-30)