 Geijo withWatford in 2013 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Alexandre Geijo Pazos | ||
| Date of birth | (1982-03-11)11 March 1982 (age 43) | ||
| Place of birth | Geneva, Switzerland | ||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Galaica-Onex | |||
| 1995–2000 | Grand-Lancy | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2000–2001 | Neuchâtel Xamax | 11 | (1) |
| 2001–2005 | Málaga B | 122 | (51) |
| 2003–2005 | Málaga | 15 | (0) |
| 2005–2007 | Xerez | 71 | (20) |
| 2007–2009 | Levante | 53 | (15) |
| 2009–2010 | Racing Santander | 19 | (1) |
| 2010–2015 | Udinese | 17 | (1) |
| 2010–2012 | →Granada (loan) | 60 | (26) |
| 2012–2013 | →Watford (loan) | 20 | (2) |
| 2013–2014 | →Mallorca (loan) | 27 | (1) |
| 2015–2016 | Brescia | 36 | (11) |
| 2016–2019 | Venezia | 75 | (18) |
| 2019–2021 | Sanluqueño | 39 | (6) |
| Total | 565 | (153) | |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Alexandre "Álex"Geijo Pazos (born 11 March 1982) is a former professionalfootballer who played as astriker.[1]
He amassedSegunda División totals of 216 matches and 70 goals over seven seasons, representing five clubs in the process. He added eight goals from 90 appearances inLa Liga, withMálaga,Levante,Racing de Santander andGranada, and also played in his birth nation of Switzerland, Italy (all threemajor levels) and England.
The son ofSpaniards who immigrated to Switzerland, Geijo was born inGeneva.[2] He started his professional career in his country of birth withNeuchâtel Xamax FCS in 2000, moving the following year to Spain where he began playing withMálaga CF, with little individual success (15 matches in three seasons, playing mostly forthe reserves), being released in summer 2005.[3]
For the next two years, Geijo played in theSegunda División with anotherAndalusian club,Xerez CD, where he blossomed into a useful attacking player, scoring 13 goals in hisfirst season.[4] For the2007–08 campaign, he joinedLevante UD:[5] in a team severely hindered by financial problems, and eventually relegated fromLa Liga, he finished as the second team goal scorer at five, behindMustapha Riga's eight.[6]
Geijo started hissecond year strong, netting ten second-tier goals before the end of 2008. However, he missed the remainder of the season due to a seriousfibula injury, after an awkward fall in a training session.[7]
On 28 July 2009, Geijo joinedRacing de Santander for four years; still recovering from injury, he nonetheless completed a successful medical.[8] His only goal only arrived on 24 January 2010, but it was a crucial one, as theCantabrians beatSporting de Gijón away by a single goal.[9][3] However, on 1 February, he signed withUdinese Calcio, rejoining former Levante coachGianni De Biasi.[10]
In July 2010, inserted in a partnership betweenGranada CF and Udinese, Geijo was loaned by the Italians in aseason-long move.[11] On 30 October he put three past former team Xerez in a 5–0 home win[12] and, on 13 November, he scored all of his team's goals in a 4–1 home victory overFC Barcelona B.[13] He finished the campaign with 24 goals (fourth-best in the competition) and his team achieved a second consecutive promotion, reaching the top flight after 35 years.[14]
Geijo started2011–12 injured, with Granada languishing in the table's bottom three for most of the first months.[15][16] On 31 October 2011 he scored his first goal of the campaign, equalising an eventual 2–1 away defeat ofSevilla FC in alocal derby.[17]
On 9 August 2012, Geijo joinedFootball League Championship clubWatford on aseason-long loan.[18][19] He scored his first goal on 27 November, playing the full 90 minutes in a 4–1 win atSheffield Wednesday.[20]
Geijo only scored once for Udinese in theSerie A, in the 2–2 away draw withU.C. Sampdoria on 21 December 2014.[21] He remained in the country subsequently, withBrescia Calcio in theSerie B[22] andVenezia F.C. in theSerie C, winning promotion with the latter in2017.[23][24]
Geijo retired in August 2021 at the age of 39, after two seasons in his country'sSegunda División B withAtlético Sanluqueño CF.[25]