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Edu Expósito will represent Eibar in a FIFA charity tournament

Edu Expósitosoccer player Eibar, will represent the Gipuzkoan team in a charity videogame tournament FIFA, in which players from the 20 First Division clubs will participate.

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Taking advantage of the quarantine due to the coronavirus, and that the footballers are confined to their homes like the rest of the population and with a lot of free time, the Bilbao Ibai Llanos, narrator of video games and any type of competition (dogs, marbles, among others), proposed through social networks to organize a virtual competition on the Internet with the soccer simulator FIFA, in which representatives of all the teams of First.

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His charitable initiative -the benefits generated will be donated to alleviate the coronavirus- was immediately answered in the affirmative by Edu Expósito. “It seems to me a TOP idea, and with the permission of my colleagues I offer to be the one to represent Eibar,” wrote the Barca midfielder in his account. Twitter.

In his case, like no other teammate from Gipuzkoa wanted to compete in this video game tournament, he will be the representative of Eibar. In other clubs, like the Real Madrid, several candidates signed up, who faced each other and the winner of that internal preview is finally the chosen one.

Edu Expósito will face in Internet in a virtual tournament in which 19 other opponents participate, among them José Antonio Martínez, central defense of Pomegranate ceded by the Eibar; Y Gorka Guruzeta (Athletic Club), son of former Eibarrés footballer Javier Guruzeta, who militated in the Real society and the Eibar.

Other possible virtual opponents in this e-sport competition are Lucas Perez (Alavés), Marcos Llorente (Atlético de Madrid), Sergi Roberto (Barcelona), Borja Iglesias (Betis), Kevin Vazquez (Celtic), Adrian Embarba (Spanish), Jason Remeseiro (Getafe), Aitor Ruibal (Leganés), Carlos Clerc (I raised), Alex Well (Majorca), Rubén García (Osasuna), Marco Asensio (Real Madrid), Adnan Januzaj (Real society), Sergio Reguilón (Seville), Carlos Soler (Valencia), Pedro Porro (Valladolid), and Manu Morlanes (Villarreal).

First season at Eibar

Eduardo Expósito (Cubellas, Barcelona, ​​1996) arrived at Eibar in July 2019 from Deportivo de La Coruña, being the most expensive signing in history (four million euros) of the Eibarrés club.

Catalan was formed in the quarries of the Cubelles, Vilanova, Gavà, Y Damm, until in 2015 it 'landed' in the Sports of La Coruña. Initially played in the sports subsidiary, the Manufacturing (2015-2016 and 2016-2017 in the Third Division, and 2017-2018 in the Second B), rising to Deportivo's first team in the 2018-2019 campaign in the Second Division. Before, on May 7, 2017, with 20 years, debuted in the First Division with the sports coach Pepe Mel in a Deportivo-Espanyol match (1-2) in Riazor.

In his first season with Eibar (2019-2020), has the confidence of the coach, José Luis Mendilibar. So, Edu Expósito has played 25 league matches, in which he has scored two goals -Celta and Atlético de Madrid in Ipurua-, and has given assistance. At 23, the midfielder dominates both the ball on the pitch and in video games.

Gabby Barker

Gabby is someone who is interested in all types of sports, she loves to attend watching matches live. Whenever there is a match being played in her city, she makes sure to get the tickets in advance. Due to the love for sports, she joined Sportsfinding, and started writing general sports news. Apart from writing the news, she is also the editor for the website who checks and edits every news content before they go live.

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