Who is Mateo Joseph, the new Spanish pearl?

Matthew Joseph yesterday became one of the names of Spain U-21, after making a hat trick to Kazakhstan. The Leeds United forward started the season at a high level, both with his team and the national team, where he is a reference.

Mateo Joseph was born on October 19, 2003 in Santander. As a child he played for Escobedo, before jumping to Carrera, where he met Pablo Torre. He spanish He noticed him and signed him in 2017 as a youngster. After a few years at ’21’ he reached Juvenil A, where he finished one of his best seasons, with fourteen goals in twenty one games.

At 17 years old he was already one of the biggest promise of the club. For this reason, he and his entourage demanded that the football player have a first team record and an annual contract as a professional. Espanyol refused and because they didn’t want to renew, they got him paragraph for half time. The situation was resolved by moving to Leeds in January 2022 for almost one million euros, despite the fact that his contract will expire in a few months.

Mateo Joseph debuted in Premier League with the English team two seasons ago, at Tottenham field. Although it is difficult for him to establish himself in the first team, this season he is playing as a starter in the Championship and has produced four goals. The Cantabrian striker has a contract until 2028 and a value of 1.20 million euros, according to Transfermarkt.

His good performance in the youth ranks at Leeds led him to the English team, a nationality he has because of his father, who is British. Although he played a few games in 2023 with the ‘Three Lions’, he chose to play in Spain. At U-21 he has five goals in four games, all of them in the qualifying phase for the European Championship.