Video: Alex Sanchez becomes La Liga’s first one-handed footballer

Rob Parker | November 12, 2009

A giant leap forward for disabled players

Real Zaragoza are fast earning a reputation for giving players a chance who would have been thrown on the scrapheap elsewhere. Not only have they provided a warm home for the Jermaine Pennant, they have now handed a debut to a one-handed player.
Alex Sanchez, aged 20, came on as [...]

Jermaine Pennant signs for Real Zaragoza, immediately serves up backhanded compliment

Rob Parker | July 10, 2009

Winger shuns ‘big teams’ to slum it in Spain

You heard it here first that Jermaine Pennant was about to sign for a Spanish club. We guessed at Espanyol, but it turns out that newly-promoted Real Zaragoza was his final destination after flying in to Barcelona.
The ex-Liverpool man passed a medical at his new club yesterday [...]