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Mosquera, who was born in Alicante but has Colombian heritage, started out as a basketball player before making the switch to futsal and joining local side San Blas Canavate, who were looking for an additional player to play in a youth tournament<\/p>\n
He swapped his love of futsal for football in 2013, joining Alicante’s biggest team Hercules, and playing as a pacey winger. He then joined Valencia’s youth set-up as a 12-year-old in 2016.<\/p>\n
Six years progressing through the club’s youth ranks sparked his transformation into a defender, and he finally made his first team debut in a Copa del Rey fixture against CD Atletico Baleares in January 2022.<\/p>\n
He can play at both centre-back and right-back and has now racked up 90 senior appearances for Valencia, scoring one goal along the way.<\/p>\n
Arsenal already boast several of the Premier League’s best one-on-one defenders, and in Mosquera they’d be signing a player who excels against opponents with the ball at their feet.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old won 70.7% of his ground duels in La Liga last season, far surpassing any other central defender to have contested at least 100 of them. <\/p>\n
He also won possession an average of 5.15 times per 90 minutes, the third-highest figure in the division among players in his position.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n