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Iker Casillas Fernández is a Spanish footballer who played in the position of Goalkeeper. Casillas was born on May 20, 1981 in Móstoles, Spain. Casillas played in Spain with La Liga club Real Madrid. Casillas was the main keeper at Real Madrid and he served as vice-captain of the club in El Real.
Since adolescence, Casillas has been recognized as the best goalkeeper of Europe proved to have a lot of awards. Casillas is ranked the fourth best player of Europe in 2008 and the best goalkeeper at the end of 2009 for three consecutive times by UEFA.
Casillas is the product of the youth training system at Real Madrid and he started his career at junior level in the 1990-1991 season. Casillas was first called in to reinforce the fight against Rosenbord Madrid in the Champions League 1997-1998 on November 27, 1997 at the age of 16. Not until the 1998-1999 season ended, Casillas has joined the senior club to replace Illgner.
In 2000, Casillas became the youngest goalkeeper to play in the Champions League as Real Madrid beat Valencia just four days after her nineteenth birthday.
Casillas had lost their place as the main goalkeeper Madrid when he performed less well during the 2001-2002 campaign and his position was replaced by Cesar Sanchez. But when Cesar injury, Casillas redeem last-minute appearance before the Champions League in 2002. Casillas performed brilliantly against Leverkusen who previously brought the Champions League crown and produce a victory for Madrid and since then Casillas wear a numbered jersey. In the 2007-2008 season, the best season Casillas who helped Real Madrid win the La Liga title to-31 with only 32 conceded in 36 matches. On February 14, 2008, Casillas and club captain Raul Gonzalez was given a new contract extension and will automatically be in Madrid until 2017 when he played for 30 competitive matches during the season end with a contract value of £ 113 million. And from the contract he received in the Spanish national team at the EURO tournament for the second time.
In February 2009, Casillas was equal his record Puco who is with the 4554 Madrid goalkeeper appearances. When the summer transfer window in 2009, Casillas offered by Manchester City for 129 million pounds Manchester United even reported to have asked for a transfer pricing Madrid Casillas but never gave the price to any club, even Casillas was never interested in leaving the club from Madrid which is the period childhood.
In the 2009-2010 season, precisely on October 4 against Sevilla, Casillas helped play out goalkeeper raced from corner to corner to face the opposing players to save the ball. After the game, Casillas received rave reviews from fellow goalkeeper Spain and England goalkeeping legend that he would be a great goalkeeper in history.
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