Iker Casillas is world cup Spanish football goalkeeper

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.
Casillas began his debut with the Spanish national team for U-17 level. At that Casillas was the youngest player in the squad, which placed Spain in 1997 FIFA U-17 World Championship held in Egypt. At that Casillas is believed to be the captain of the national team U-17 level. Two years later, Casillas won the FIFA World Youth Championship and the UEFA-CAF Meridian Cup in the same year.
Casillasa is the second national team goalkeeper Andoni Zubizarreta Spain after appearing as many as 126 games. After its international debut against Sweden at the age of 19 years 14 days and he is a reserve player at Euro 2000 but was not played. Casillas is the national team in World Cup 2002 after Santiago Canizares, but Canizares withdrew from the tournament due to injury in the accident and Casillas was finally selected to be the main goalkeeper in the national team. When he was 21 years, the main goalkeeper Casillas is the youngest in the tournament and he saved two penalties in a big round of 16 against the Republic of Ireland until he was nicknamed 'The Saint'. Casillas performed as many as four times in eight games in EURO 2004 qualifiers and conceded only four goals. Casillas always play well in every game checkers scored a victory over Norway in Oslo and in all the games of EURO 2004 Spanish national team. Casillas is the top choice in the Spanish national team in 2006 FIFA World Cup but must be willing to lose to the French national team.
In the EURO 2008 tournament, Casillas was entrusted to lead the Spanish national team to replace captain Raul Gonzalez became the national team. Spain are in Group D and start the game with a victory against Russia and Sweden and the final stage against the Greeks. Even Casillas saved two penalties from Di Natale and De Rossi of Italy in the quarterfinal on June 22, 2008. Until finally Spain cruised into the finals and win against Germany on June 29, 2008. And Casillas was the first goalie captain lifting the trophy when defeating Germany EURO Cup. In October 2008, Casillas and Reina are couples goalkeeper who broke the national record time of 710 minutes Spanish with longer than a couple Andoni and Paco. Casillas is ranked fourth out of 10 players after Torres, Christiano Ronaldo and Messi Golden Ball in 2008 but he is the world's best goalkeeper in the year 2008 by the IFFHS and Casillas is ranked third all-time world's best goalkeeper Oliver Khan defeated.
As World Cup 2010 qualifiers, Spain to play with a draw against Belgium because when Wesley Snock score against Spain. On September 5, 2009, after the win against Belgium in World Cup 2010 qualifying match Casillas national goalkeeper Andoni equal his record. And when the next match Spain against Estonia in September 2009, a record exceeded Casillas goalkeeper Andoni Spain and he is the cleanest. On November 14, 2009 is his 100th appearance with the national teams of Spain and the third player in the history of Spain in international matches.
On July 11, 2010, Casillas is the Spain captain who won his first World Cup goalkeeper and captain who has won the World Cup. Casillas is the best goalkeeper in the World Cup in 2010 and received the Golden Glove. Casillas was always clean and during the 2010 World Cup goalkeeper conceded only two goals. Even in the early preliminary round but lost to Switzerland in the next game against Chile and Honduras managed to win the match. Similarly on June 30, 2010 as per the eight-final against Portugal, in the quarter-finals on July 4, 2010 against Paraguay, in the semi-finals on July 8, 2010 against Germany all won by the Spanish national team. Even in the final on July 11, 2010 against Netherlands the Spanish had won with a score of 1-0 for Spain Spain that eventually became the winner of the World Cup in 2010.
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