Orbelín Pineda Alvarado
Position: CM
Age: 20yo (24 March 1996)
Place of birth: México City, México
Height: 1.69m
Weight: 63.8 kg
Current club: C.D. Guadalajara
Orbelin is a box-to-box midfielder. He can run for days, I'm not exaggerating, recently Chivas has played a lot of games, and Orbelin has played in all of them, not every single minute, but at least a fair amount of time, not to mention he also was called to represent the National Team on a Friendly Match in Las Vegas.
28th January @ Querétaro
1st of February @ Venados
2nd of February vs Boca Juniors
5th of February vs Santos
8th of February vs Iceland
11th of February @ Atlas
Not only he played (and he played fantastic on every match) all of those matches, he had to travel to Queretaro, to Mérida (south of México) and to Las Vegas. Physically, he's a beast.
But Orbelín is not just that, he's much more. He can recover the ball, he can score goals, he can dribble past opponents. He has a pretty nice technique, he can shoot from distance. The guy is just an all-round midfielder and to be fair he's the best player Chivas has right now, and has been almost since he came here about a year ago. I wouldn't be surprised to see him leave to Europe this summer, but I believe he will stick around a little bit longer than that.
I may sound biased, but I think Juventus should really put an eye on this guy, he can be something special, more so than he is already for us, with the help of more experienced players he can develope the way he sees the game and really be a star for any team. He has that talent. And he's a pretty young guy, next month he'll turn 21, he has a lot of time to learn from maestros of the game to teach him to be one of them.
He's like a less defensively capable Vidal.
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Here's a video, all of this footage is from 2016, his first year at the club. #7 when playing with Chivas, #22 with México.