Francisco, Isco, Alarcón is a new Betis player from this afternoon. The 31-year-old from Malaga passed the medical tests this morning and signed for a single season, until June 2024, for Manuel Pellegrini’s team, taking over from Sergio Canales, who has just signed for the Mexican side Monterrey.
Isco had been without a team since he ended his adventure at Sevilla in January of this year, which lasted six months, due to disagreements with Jorge Sampaoli.
The career of Isco, one of the most promising players of his generation, has been going downhill for several seasons despite the fact that at the time he was the flagship player in the red that Julen Lopetegui trained at the time.
Born in Arroyo de la Miel (Málaga) and trained in the Valencia youth academy, Isco played two seasons for Málaga, coached precisely by Manuel Pellegrini, a team that played in the Champions League. Isco signed for Real Madrid in June 2013 and played nine seasons with the whites, but he was never an undisputed starter, although in the first few seasons his performance was acceptable.
Isco’s last three seasons at the Bernabéu were bad and the last two (the first with Zidane and the last with Ancelotti barely had any weight in the team) which is why he left the white entity in the summer of 2022 to sign with Sevilla de Lopetegui, his defender in the selection.
The dismissal of the Basque coach, with Sevilla in relegation places and the arrival of Jorge Sampaoli, meant a new ostracism for the man from Malaga, who left Nervión in the last winter market after coming to blows with Mochi, the sports director.
Since then Isco was without a team despite a rapprochement with the German Union Berlin, a club that at the last moment withdrew its signing, with the man from Malaga already in Germany. Isco is the fifth signing of the new Betis, a new opportunity to revive his career, which does not seem easy.
