MADRID, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Celta Vigo has confirmed that club captain and all-time record goalscorer Iago Aspas has signed a two-year contract extension that will keep him at his home-town club until June 2025.
Apart from one year with Liverpool and another at Sevilla, the striker, who will be 35 next week, has spent nearly all his career with Celta since joining as a nine-year-old and making his first-team debut in June 2008.
Aspas has scored 184 goals in 418 appearances for the club and has been the top-scoring Spanish goalscorer in La Liga in four different seasons.
Aspas' previous deal was due to expire in June 2023, but the new contract means he will now remain until he is nearly 37 years old.
The striker joined Liverpool in 2013 for 13 million euros, but struggled to adapt to the Premier League and in 2014 was loaned to Sevilla, who sold him back to Celta a year later.
His second spell back at his local club has been even more successful, with 134 goals in 265 appearances. That form has seen him make 18 appearances for the Spanish national team, for whom he has netted six times, although apparent personality differences with current coach Luis Enrique appear to have ended his international career. ■
