Player Profile: Aitor Cantalapiedra

Player Profile: Aitor Cantalapiedra 


By: Antonios Theodosis 


 

With Panathinaikos heading in a new direction for next season, the club’s technical director Xavi Roca has already started to bring in the players he has envisioned for the new project. One of these players is Aitor Cantalapiedra, a player with immense talent that has many Panathinaikos fans excited for the new season. 

 

Aitor has played in some of Europe’s best leagues and clubs. The talented winger started his professional footballing career at Spanish powerhouse club FC Barcelona, making eighteen appearances for their B team and scoring four goals. He also made two appearances for the senior side in the Copa Del Rey. He then had brief stints with Villareal and Sevilla B, amassing over twenty appearances for the latter in 2017-2018 season before making the switch to Twente in Holland. Aitor played arguably the best football of his career during his two year stint in the Eredivisie. The Spanish ace appeared over fifty times for the club and scored twenty goals with Twente before mutually splitting with the club in 2020. 

 

Aitor’s playstyle is that of a traditional winger, he plays on the right wing and is left-footed, is quite pacey, and plays with flair. He possesses quick technical dribbling that allows him to work through tight opposition defenses and can also provide decent service on set pieces into the box. Along with this, his positional awareness on the pitch is quite good, often exploiting spaces in opposition defenses for a teammate to play him through on counter attacking opportunities.   

 

Overall, Aitor is a player that could benefit any team in the Greek Super League. The Spaniard is still young, only twenty four years old and has come off of his best season so far. All plaudits must go to Xavi Roca who was able to find the talented winger and bring him to a Panathinaikos team going into a new chapter. 

 

For many Panathinaikos fans, myself included, we cannot wait to see Aitor out on the pitch wearing that Green jersey.


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