{"id":14101,"date":"2025-07-02T09:24:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T13:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/atletico-madrid-signs-alex-baena-and-targets-johnny-cardoso\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T09:24:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T13:24:24","slug":"atletico-madrid-signs-alex-baena-and-targets-johnny-cardoso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/atletico-madrid-signs-alex-baena-and-targets-johnny-cardoso\/","title":{"rendered":"Atl\u00e9tico Madrid signs \u00c1lex Baena and targets Johnny Cardoso"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u00c1lex Baena Strengthens Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid for 50 Million Euros<\/h2>\n\n\nAtl\u00e9tico de Madrid has finalized the incorporation of Spanish midfielder \u00c1lex Baena, in a deal worth around 50 million euros. The news has been confirmed after the financial agreement reached with Villarreal.\n\nBaena, 23 years old, has signed a five-year contract with Atletico, valid until 2030, after passing the medical tests this morning.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0702%2Fr1513927_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\u00c1lex Baena es la nueva incorporaci\u00f3n del Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<em>\u00c1lex Baena will become an Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid player.<\/em>\n\nThe arrival of Baena joins that of Matteo Ruggeri, from Atalanta. The next on the list of signings is Johnny Cardoso, an American midfielder from Real Betis.\n\nAfter these three additions, Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid will seek to reinforce their defense, with Cristian Romero, captain of Tottenham, as the main objective.\n\nAtl\u00e9tico&#8217;s coach, Diego Simeone, is interested in Romero and is pushing for his transfer to Spain, although there is still no agreement between the clubs.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c1lex Baena Strengthens Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid for 50 Million Euros Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid has finalized the incorporation of Spanish midfielder \u00c1lex Baena, in a deal worth around 50 million euros. The news has been confirmed after the financial agreement reached with Villarreal. Baena, 23 years old, has signed a five-year contract with Atletico, valid until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[5207,2704,2705,1619],"class_list":{"0":"post-14101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-alex-baena","9":"tag-atletico-madrid","10":"tag-johnny-cardoso","11":"tag-signing"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}