'Well it can't have been the celebration,' he says. Steven Alzate is an English-Colombian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Brighton & Hove Albion. Steven Alzate holds off the challenge of Bournemouth's Dominic Solanke. Steven Alzate The first few months of the 2019/20 season have certainly been memorable for Steven, after the 21-year-old forced his way into the first-team, making his debut in a man-of-the match display in goalless draw away at Newcastle United. Alzate jokes: 'I play a few different positions so it's not one person I am keeping out. Report: Gross is spot on as Albion draw with Chelsea At 16 or 17, I started to take it more as a career and I became more serious. “On a personal note, it was really good to get my debut and to perform as well.” There were only two and one was right by a pillar so we were fighting over the good one! We have to keep proving we belong. The Scene and Sound interview: How the Cannibal Kids got their name. The 21-year-old midfielder was born and brought up in London and played for Fulham and Leyton Orient before joining 'What he has done for the club has been unbelievable and what he has done for me has been unbelievable too.Both players posed for a team photo with the Brighton staff this week to cement the family feel'He hasn't made me feel unwelcome, it's been the opposite. You can tell he is very highly regarded at the club and you can see what a good player he is. His performance rightly earned the Albion fans’ Man of the Match award on a day when Albion picked up their first clean sheet of 2020 and became only the second team to prevent Wolves from scoring at home this season.The fans’ chant of the season, Lewis Dunk’s ‘Withdean to Wembley’, got its regular airing but their reworking of the Champs’ 1958 hit, ‘Tequila’ [look it up on YouTube kids] also emanated from the away end, with the title changed to ‘Bissouma!’“It’s great to hear!” he smiles. Data returned from the Piano 'meterActive/meterExpired' callback These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the It is important that we continue to promote these adverts as our local businesses need as much support as possible during these challenging times. They wanted us properly part of it. 'Coaches, medical staff, player services staff, social media staff, education, accommodation, psychologist, recruitment staff and that's just at Brighton. He told The Argus: “He’s fantastic - his mentality, his desire to want to play football. I felt we deserved to win, especially in the first half when we dominated the game.

He expected to go out again this term until Graham Potter arrived and liked what he saw.

Assisted by Alireza Jahanbakhsh. Connolly joined the club at 16 from Ireland while Alzate was spotted by academy scouts playing at Orient when he was 17.Given their opportunity by new Brighton manager Graham Potter, their impact is being felt at all levels.

Albion midfielder Steven Alzate achieved another impressive milestone in his fledgling career, after making his senior Colombia debut in a 1-0 win over Peru on Friday night.The 21-year-old came onto the pitch as a 73rd-minute substitute to replace former Chelsea man Juan Cuadrado during the friendly, which took place in Miami.Alzate was on the pitch when La Tricolor scored a late stoppage-time winner, that came courtesy of Alfredo Morelos’s strike.Fellow Premier League players that also featured in the game for Colombia included: Yerry Mina (Everton), Davinson Sanchez (Tottenham Hotspur) and Jefferson Lerma (AFC Bournemouth).The Seagulls starlet and the rest of the Colombia squad will now head north up the east coast for a second friendly match against Ecuador this coming Tuesday.Chief executive with his thoughts as Albion host their first match with spectators for six months.Head coach on 1-1 draw against Chelsea as Amex hosted spectators for the first time in six months.Substitute scores late equaliser as Saturday's pre-season friendly finishes in a 1-1 draw.This website employs cookies to improve user experience. It means a lot to a lot of people. “Okay, maybe not centre-back! Not that I could do any of it.'

“You miss them, you miss your home, but as time goes on I understood that I had to forget about missing them and concentrate on my game if I wanted to make it as a footballer.“I did five years there and learnt a lot, and I learnt to play football properly. Steven Alzate holds off the challenge of Bournemouth's Dominic Solanke. It was crazy seeing my face on there. I can't even remember it. Steven Alzate putting his sure touch to a variety of uses.

... Brighton pair Steven Alzate and Aaron Connolly have each agreed new four-year contracts with the Premier League club. Both members of Brighton’s excellent youth team of the last couple of years, they always seemed unlikely to be given a chance under Hughton.