Mexico's Guardado extends his contract until June 2023

Sevilla, 24 Mar The Mexican international Andrés Guardado has extended his contract with Real Betis for one season, until June 2023, the Verdiblanco club announced this Thursday. José Andrés Guardado Hernández (Guadalajara -Jalisco-, September 28, 1986) landed at Betis in the summer of 2017 from the Dutch PSV Eindhoven, for just over 2 million euros, and since his arrival he has played 158 official matches with the betica jersey, with four goals and 16 assists. The midfielder from Tapatio, who will turn 36 in September, ended at the end of this season his relationship with Betis, which he expanded by two years in December 2019, and has become one of the heavyweights in the dressing room of the Verdiblanco team, of which he is its second captain. So far this season, the captain of the Mexican national team, with 173 matches and 28 goals scored with Tricolor since his debut at 19 in December 2005, has played 29 official matches with Betis in LaLiga Santander, Copa del Rey and Liga Europa, 17 as a starter, with 1,481 minutes added and one goal. Guardado, who has missed the current Tri squad as he was fresh from a muscular injury, is one of the leaders of the Betica squad and, although he is not an undisputed starter now, he is fully integrated into Betis and remains one of the mainstays in the rotation policy of Chilean coach Manuel Pellegrini. The Guadalajara player, formed in the Atlas of his country, has set himself the goal of competing at the end of this year in the World Cup Tasting with his team, in what would be his fifth World Cup presence, since he was already in Germany, South Africa, Brazil and Russia, although to do so the Tricolor must tie his place in the Concacaf qualifiers . 'El Princito' is a great football idol in Mexico, due to his long and successful career in the Mexican national team, and he made the leap to Europe in 2007, when he made his debut in LaLiga with Deportivo de La Coruña, in which he played five seasons, and then went to Valencia. In the 2013-14 season he left for German Bayer Leverkusen and from there he moved to PSV, a Dutch team in which he was a key player in winning the leagues in 2015 and 2016, before returning to Spain with his signing for Betis.