Julian Alvarez has now finished the season, after featuring for Argentina in their latest game against Indonesia.
The Manchester City attacker started for the World Cup winners, which followed a substitute appearance he made against Australia last week.
Argentina won both games 2-0, which caps off the season nicely for Alvarez.
The 23-year-old could not have wished for a better past 12 months.
After arriving alongside Erling Haaland a the Etihad Stadium, Alvarez quickly set about making an impression coming off the bench in games for City.
He tended to score most times he played and certainly when he started.
He finished the campaign with a very respectable 17 goals to his name, and course ended up winning three trophies including the Champions League.
But Alvarez’s season was extra special in that he also won the World Cup in December.
Julian Alvarez posts medal haul on Instagram as Enzo Fernandez, Sergio Aguero and others reply
Earlier today, Alvarez took to Instagram to flex his haul of medals from the season just gone.
He posted a picture of him wearing the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League medals he won with City. And of course, he also threw in his World Cup medal just for good measure.
The post has already been liked over 1.2 million times at the time of writing.
His caption read: “The season is over! Very happy to have achieved personal and group goals and dreams. It’s been an awesome year, with new experiences, lots of learning and growth. Thank you all so much for the support and love. Now rest a little, to soon come back with everything.”
Thousands of fans commented.
And there were also messages left from current and former players.
Chelsea star Enzo Fernandez joked ‘You rightly told me that your neck hurt’.
And City legend Sergio Aguero also replied with ‘Grande arañaaaaaa’. (La) Araña, of course, is Alvarez’s nickname which translates to ‘(the) Spider’.
Julian Alvarez has had an incredible season with Manchester City and Argentina
What a season it has been for Alvarez.
He seriously could not have hoped for it to have gone any better.
Perhaps he’d had liked a few more minutes. But having Haaland ahead of him was also going to mean him being patient.
But he still played a decent amount, and made big contributions for City. As he did for Argentina in Qatar.
Hopefully, this early success will encourage him to keep on pushing in the future.
