Jordi Alba

Born: March 21, 1989 (age 30)

Height: 5'6.5" (170cm)

Weight: 10st 10lb (68kg)

Hometown: L'Hospitalet, Spain

Nationality:

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Spanish

Position: Left-back

Team: Barcelona (no. 18)

Career History
Youth	1998-2005	Barcelona
Senior	2009-2012	Valencia
Senior	2012-	Barcelona
International	2013-	Spain

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Vidal, Messi score as Barcelona overcome Getafe

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UCL Team of the Week - Lucas Moura, Origi, Wijnaldum

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Liverpool stun Barcelona to reach CL final

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Combined XI: Liverpool vs. Barcelona

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UCL Team of the Week - Messi, Suarez, De Jong

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Messi brace puts Barca on brink of final

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Barca on verge of Cucurella deal?

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Combined XI: Barcelona vs. Liverpool

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How Barcelona could line up against Levante

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Valderde expects to wait until Saturday for title

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La Liga Table

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
C	Barcelona	38	26	9	3	90	36	54	87
2	Atletico Madrid Atletico	38	22	10	6	55	29	26	76
3	Real Madrid	38	21	5	12	63	46	17	68
4	Valencia	38	15	16	7	51	35	16	61
5	Getafe	38	15	14	9	48	35	13	59
6	Sevilla	38	17	8	13	62	47	15	59
7	Espanyol	38	14	11	13	48	50	-2	53
8	Athletic Bilbao	38	13	14	11	41	45	-4	53
9	Real Sociedad	38	13	11	14	45	46	-1	50
10	Real Betis	38	14	8	16	44	52	-8	50
11	Alaves Alaves	38	13	11	14	39	50	-11	50
12	Eibar Eibar	38	11	14	13	46	50	-4	47
13	Leganes	38	11	12	15	37	43	-6	45
14	Villarreal	38	10	14	14	49	52	-3	44
15	Levante	38	11	11	16	59	66	-7	44
16	Real Valladolid	38	10	11	17	32	51	-19	41
17	Celta Vigo	38	10	11	17	53	62	-9	41
R	Girona Girona	38	9	10	19	37	53	-16	37
R	Huesca	38	7	12	19	43	65	-22	33
R	Rayo Vallecano	38	8	8	22	41	70	-29	32

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Valverde: 'People say we are champions already - we're not'

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Barcelona edge closer to title with narrow win over Real Sociedad

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Live Commentary: Barcelona 2-1 Real Sociedad - as it happened

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Filipe Luis 'holding out for Barcelona move'

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UCL Team of the Week - Messi, Son, Sterling

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Messi nets brace as Barcelona dump United out of CL

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Huesca hold Barcelona to a goalless draw

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Diego Costa sees red as Atletico lose against Barcelona

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Barcelona rescue late point in eight-goal thriller

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Lionel Messi magic inspires flat Barcelona

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Messi hits hat-trick to send Barca 10 points clear

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Player Ratings: Pique stars in Clasico as Bale is booed off

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Barca 'eye Nacho Monreal, Alberto Moreno'

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Combined XI: Real Madrid vs. Barcelona

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Combined XI: Real Madrid vs. Barcelona

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Jordi Alba signs new Barcelona contract

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La Liga Table

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
C	Barcelona	38	26	9	3	90	36	54	87
2	Atletico Madrid Atletico	38	22	10	6	55	29	26	76
3	Real Madrid	38	21	5	12	63	46	17	68
4	Valencia	38	15	16	7	51	35	16	61
5	Getafe	38	15	14	9	48	35	13	59
6	Sevilla	38	17	8	13	62	47	15	59
7	Espanyol	38	14	11	13	48	50	-2	53
8	Athletic Bilbao	38	13	14	11	41	45	-4	53
9	Real Sociedad	38	13	11	14	45	46	-1	50
10	Real Betis	38	14	8	16	44	52	-8	50
11	Alaves Alaves	38	13	11	14	39	50	-11	50
12	Eibar Eibar	38	11	14	13	46	50	-4	47
13	Leganes	38	11	12	15	37	43	-6	45
14	Villarreal	38	10	14	14	49	52	-3	44
15	Levante	38	11	11	16	59	66	-7	44
16	Real Valladolid	38	10	11	17	32	51	-19	41
17	Celta Vigo	38	10	11	17	53	62	-9	41
R	Girona Girona	38	9	10	19	37	53	-16	37
R	Huesca	38	7	12	19	43	65	-22	33
R	Rayo Vallecano	38	8	8	22	41	70	-29	32

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Premier League Table

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
C	Manchester City Man City	38	32	2	4	95	23	72	98
2	Liverpool	38	30	7	1	89	22	67	97
3	Chelsea	38	21	9	8	63	39	24	72
4	Tottenham Hotspur Spurs	38	23	2	13	67	39	28	71
5	Arsenal	38	21	7	10	73	51	22	70
6	Manchester United Man Utd	38	19	9	10	65	54	11	66
7	Wolverhampton Wanderers Wolves	38	16	9	13	47	46	1	57
8	Everton	38	15	9	14	54	46	8	54
9	Leicester City Leicester	38	15	7	16	51	48	3	52
10	West Ham United West Ham	38	15	7	16	52	55	-3	52
11	Watford	38	14	8	16	52	59	-7	50
12	Crystal Palace	38	14	7	17	51	53	-2	49
13	Newcastle United Newcastle	38	12	9	17	42	48	-6	45
14	Bournemouth	38	13	6	19	56	70	-14	45
15	Burnley	38	11	7	20	45	68	-23	40
16	Southampton	38	9	12	17	45	65	-20	39
17	Brighton & Hove Albion Brighton	38	9	9	20	35	60	-25	36
R	Cardiff City Cardiff	38	10	4	24	34	69	-35	34
R	Fulham	38	7	5	26	34	81	-47	26
R	Huddersfield Town Huddersfield	38	3	7	28	22	76	-54	16

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