In July, it was revealed that Newcastle United winger Antonio Cordero was heading back to Spain on loan.
An official Newcastle United announcement: ‘Newcastle United winger Antonio Cordero will rejoin Cádiz CF on loan for the 2026/27 campaign. Antonio returns to Cádiz following a successful loan spell during the second half of the 2025/26 season, where he made 21 appearances in the Spanish Segunda División, scoring three times.’
Things haven’t gone too well for Cadiz this season, heading into this weekend they had drawn four league matches and lost five, with only a single victory.
That gloom lifted on Sunday and Antonio Cordero was at the heart of it with a man of the match performance.
The Newcastle United loan star at the heart of everything positive in this 3-1 home defeat of Ceuta.
A goal down at half-time, after the break Antonio Cordero was on a one man mission to turn the game around.
The attacking player hit the post, before then supplying an assist for the equaliser, then swiftly completing the turn around with a goal from the penalty spot.
The United teenager eventually subbed off with eight minutes remaining, Cadiz ending up 3-1 victors and Antonio Cordero awarded man of the match.
Whilst the Spanish club haven’t started well this season, Antonio Cordero has been one of the rare exceptions with his performances. Starting eight of the eleven league matches he has now scored four goals and got one assist.
Ahead of joining Newcastle United in summer 2025, Antonio Cordero was seen as one of the best emerging young talents in Spain and attracting interest from many clubs, Cordero managed 13 direct goal involvements for Malaga in the Spanish second tier 2024/25 season, scoring six and getting seven assists.
After signing for United, the then 18-year-old sent to Belgian top tier club Westerlo to get some regular first team football to help his progression. However, the teenage winger’s move to Belgium proved a disaster.
As in so many other cases where young NUFC players go out on loan to get plenty of first team football…but then don’t, in the first half of the 2025/26 season Antonio Cordero not given a single league start by Westerlo and instead only 87 minutes in seven brief appearances from the bench.
A lot of Newcastle fans pointing the finger at Shola Ameobi, who since 2019 had been the Loan Coordinator/Manager at NUFC, overseeing young players sent out on loan.
All parties agreeing to cut short that doomed loan spell, Antonio Cordero then announced as going on loan to Cadiz on 31 December 2025. A return to the Spanish second tier for the teenager.
As the club pointed out, the young Newcastle United prospect enjoying a far more productive second half of last season. After no goals in his first 11 starts for Cadiz earlier this year in the second half of the 2025/26 season, Antonio Cordero then scored three goals in his last five matches in the starting eleven.
Good luck to the 19-year-old (turns 20 next month) for the rest of this season and hopefully plenty of first team football to assist his development, plus more goals and assists as well.