Daniel Carvajal cost Real Madrid 6,500,000 euros.
Daniel Carvajal Ramos (Leganés, Madrid, January 11, 1992), known as Dani Carvajal, is a Spanish footballer who plays as a right back for Real Madrid Club de Fútbol in the Spanish First Division since the 2013-2014 season.
Trained as a footballer in the Real Madrid academy from the junior category to his subsidiary team, he was transferred to Bayer Leverkusen in the 2012-2013 season, where he made his professional debut, being included in the ideal eleven of the Bundesliga. The following season 2013-2014, he was repurchased for the Real Madrid first team, becoming the starting right-back since his arrival.
He has been an absolute international with the Spanish team since 2014. Previously, he went through the youth categories of the national team, proclaiming himself champion of Europe under-19 in 2011 and under-21 in 2013.
Trajectory
His start as a training player was in one of the teams in his neighborhood in Leganés, Lemans. In 2002, at the age of 10, he entered the Real Madrid youth academy, as part of the club's fry. In fact, on May 12, 2004, Dani Carvajal was one of those responsible for laying the first stone of the future Ciudad Real Madrid together with the then honorary president Alfredo Di Stéfano. Since then he has gone through all the lower categories, from Real Madrid Alevín in the 2002-2003 season until he finally joined the first affiliate team, Real Madrid Castilla Club de Fútbol in the 2010-11.6 season.
He quickly becomes a fixture of the team that would finish in third place and qualify to play promotion to the Second Division after 4 years in the 2nd Division. In it, the team would be eliminated by Club Deportivo Alcoyano, after losing 0-2 at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium and drawing 2-2 in the second leg played in Alcoy.
The following season, they won the championship of Group I of the Second Division "B" of 2012, which gave them the right to play the promotion phase of champions. In it, the subsidiary managed to return to the Second Division after 5 years after defeating Cádiz Club de Fútbol by a global result of 8-1. In the first leg, the white team achieved a 0-3 victory, which was completed in the second leg at the Alfredo Di Stéfano Stadium with another 5-1 victory.
Bayer Leverkusen
When there was speculation in the media about the possibility that he would be part of the Real Madrid first team, the club signed his transfer to Bayer Leverkusen for five seasons on July 9, 2012 so that his progression would not be affected. The German club paid 5 million euros for him and the white club reserved a repurchase option for the next three seasons. That season he was chosen by Bild in the ideal eleven of the Bundesliga, after having played 34 league games with one goal and eight assists.
Real Madrid Football Club
On June 3, 2013, the official website of Bayer Leverkusen makes the player's playoff official for Real Madrid for 6,500,000 euros. The player made his official debut with the Madrid team in the first league game of the 2013-2014 season on August 18 against Real Betis Balompié. Carvajal, in just one season with Real Madrid, managed to dispute a place in the starting team with Álvaro Arbeloa, with more years in the first team. The player participated in the final of the UEFA Champions League, which was played on May 24, 2014, in which Real Madrid became champion with a 4-1 victory against Atlético de Madrid. The following season, Real Madrid would win the European Super Cup and the Club World Cup, with Carvajal starting in both competitions. On July 8, 2015, he extended his contract with Real Madrid until 2020.
In the 2015/2016 season, Carvajal would continue to be the undisputed starter on the right wing of the merengue team, even with the arrival of Danilo Luiz, the Spaniard managed to impose his category and showed it with assists and goals. He played the final of the Champions League against Atlético where Madrid would end up winning the Eleventh. However, Dani would be injured in the match and miss the European Championship in France.
In August 2016 he returned to the pitch and in the first official match of the season, the European Super Cup against Sevilla, he would be fundamental and would score a goal in the 118th minute of the match to make it 3-2 for Madrid and achieve the trophy. In November 2016, UEFA included Dani Carvajal in the list of 40 nominees for the Eleven of the Year.
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