Bravo lining up for Chile in 2013
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Full name | Claudio Andrés Bravo Muñoz | |||||||||||
Date of birth | 13 April 1983 | |||||||||||
Place of birth | Viluco, Chile | |||||||||||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||
Playing position | Goalkeeper | |||||||||||
Club information | ||||||||||||
Current team
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Manchester City | |||||||||||
Number | 1 | |||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||
Colo-Colo | ||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
2002–2006 | Colo-Colo | 123 | (0) | |||||||||
2006–2014 | Real Sociedad | 229 | (1) | |||||||||
2014–2016 | Barcelona | 70 | (0) | |||||||||
2016– | Manchester City | 19 | (0) | |||||||||
National team‡ | ||||||||||||
2004 | Chile U23 | 7 | (0) | |||||||||
2004– | Chile | 110 | (0) | |||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20:15, 19 February 2017 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 15 November 2016 |
Claudio Andrés Bravo Muñoz (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈklauðjo ˈβɾaβo]; born 13 April 1983) is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Manchester City and the Chile national team.
He started playing with Colo-Colo and moved to Real Sociedad in 2006, appearing in 237 official games with the latter club. Barcelona signed him for €12 million in 2014, and he won the treble and the Zamora Trophy in his first season. In the summer of 2016, he moved to Manchester City.
Bravo was Chile's most capped player of all time with over 100 appearances since his debut in 2004, and represented the nation in two World Cups and five Copa América. He captained his side to victory at the 2015 and 2016 editions of the latter tournament.
Bravo was born in Viluco, Maipo Province. His father recognized his son's emerging talent and took him to Colo-Colo's youth academy, and he eventually made his professional debut in 2002. There, he was given the nickname Cóndor Chico, after former club goalkeeper Roberto Rojas.