
Alphonse Areola is a French professional football player who competes for both the France national team and Premier League club West Ham United.
He was a member of the teams that won the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup and the 2018 FIFA World Cup. He was born on February 27, 1993.
Areola moved to Real Madrid in 2019 on a season-long loan. He first went on loan to Fulham in 2020, and then he went on another to West Ham in 2021.
The accomplished goalkeeper’s parents are Cleto and Heidi Areola. According to our research, they are still happily married. Both parents are Filipinos.
Areola does not have a brother but he has one sister named Gratia Claire Areola.
The West Ham goalie dated and got married to his sweetheart Marrion Valette Areola in 2014. They have since been blessed with three beautiful daughters.
Having joined Paris Saint-Germain in 2009, Laurent Areola made his senior debut for the team on May 18, 2013.
In the final game of the season, he played 61 minutes before being replaced by Ronan Le Crom, the backup goalie who was later dismissed for a foul on Julien Quercia.
At the age of six, Areola started playing football for the neighborhood Entente Sportive des Petits Anges team in Ligue 1.
Areola was called up to the France team on October 1 for friendlies against Armenia and Denmark in preparation for hosting UEFA Euro 2016.
Despite not being selected for the team, he was called up three times between September and November 2016 for friendlies and World Cup qualifiers.
Areola was selected to be a member of Didier Deschamps’ 23-man team for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
He acted as France’s third goalie there as the team won the championship, behind Hugo Lloris and Steve Mandanda. He accomplished this by becoming the first player since Héctor Zelada of Argentina in 1986 to win the World Cup without having ever received a cap for his nation.
Source: Ghanafuo.com
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